Dear Print Planet Forum,
My name is William, and I am a representative for a nonprofit theatre here in Texas hoping to expand our print capabilities, like in marketing. In noticing our print costs skyrocketing using a 3rd party, the board and I are searching for a printer of our own.
In my search, though, I have found much information that I am not familiar with and hope you can provide your knowledge into helping us choose a certain brand and printer.
As of now, our major cost comes from the playbills, little booklets for productions. In continuing to explain my circumstances, as of now, we technically do our runs every other month for a production. This includes a playbill (color) with 6 sheets (24 pages). This can range 1,500 to 4,000 a production not including flyers and posters. As for flyers, this would be a minimum of either 500 or 1,000 per production. For posters perhaps I believe 12 by 18 would be a minimum of 100. These numbers will increase should we be successful more later on and expand our marketing capabilities. trifold brochures would be be nice to make automatically however, I can live in the meantime manually folding should it cost too much to get. These are simply bare minimums and do not include anything we might print during other periods.
We are hoping to expand out capabilities to include direct mail, catalogs, post cards, etc, however it is not necessary at this point in time. But it would be nice to have. I also do not believe we will ever need the capability of making bound glued books. If necessary I thin we can afford to have that outsourced or the booklet maker should suffice
I also found out that these printers do not print full bleed unless you trim them after the fact, forgive me on being ignorant on such a common fact. Any advice on this matter would be most useful, such as recommended workarounds to I do not think you will need it.
I have been searching already and have obviously looked into certain big known brands like xerox, konica minolta, and ricoh. We are looking to buy the printer and are willing to spend I think upwards of about 40,000 give or take 5,000. Why this price, it is the minimum we would spend if we outsourced it so why not just buy it.
On solely looks on paper and meeting with the people I have to interact for the maintenence agreement, I like a local xerox company. I was looking into the Phaser 7800 (good for now I think) and the Xerox 700i (can handle supposedly heavier stock compared to 550) .
I do not know much on canon.
I did not really like the the ricoh company down here as one I did 'not like their descision making for me and too the fact that they memntioned I had to control my color costs. On the info print on the brochure, it mentions also "infoPrint reserves the right to bill for excessive toner consumption." Something I do like the sound of
I looked into the Konica minolta, but one they want to lease it at the cost of the xerox 700i, Konica Minolta bizhub PRO C5501 and two the resolution is 600 by 600 but 8 bit. I also do not like the fact I was lied to by them when they said one of there samples was printed on one of the bizhub but was told by a good friend that that could not be possible on what was given. There is another one I can go to to see if they offer a better price and service.
I looking for at least a little bit of quality. If you please though, I would like then some advice and some general info on to know about costs to operate, click fees, consumables, service contracts, reliability, alternatives with the same functionality to the one that I am considering.
My name is William, and I am a representative for a nonprofit theatre here in Texas hoping to expand our print capabilities, like in marketing. In noticing our print costs skyrocketing using a 3rd party, the board and I are searching for a printer of our own.
In my search, though, I have found much information that I am not familiar with and hope you can provide your knowledge into helping us choose a certain brand and printer.
As of now, our major cost comes from the playbills, little booklets for productions. In continuing to explain my circumstances, as of now, we technically do our runs every other month for a production. This includes a playbill (color) with 6 sheets (24 pages). This can range 1,500 to 4,000 a production not including flyers and posters. As for flyers, this would be a minimum of either 500 or 1,000 per production. For posters perhaps I believe 12 by 18 would be a minimum of 100. These numbers will increase should we be successful more later on and expand our marketing capabilities. trifold brochures would be be nice to make automatically however, I can live in the meantime manually folding should it cost too much to get. These are simply bare minimums and do not include anything we might print during other periods.
We are hoping to expand out capabilities to include direct mail, catalogs, post cards, etc, however it is not necessary at this point in time. But it would be nice to have. I also do not believe we will ever need the capability of making bound glued books. If necessary I thin we can afford to have that outsourced or the booklet maker should suffice
I also found out that these printers do not print full bleed unless you trim them after the fact, forgive me on being ignorant on such a common fact. Any advice on this matter would be most useful, such as recommended workarounds to I do not think you will need it.
I have been searching already and have obviously looked into certain big known brands like xerox, konica minolta, and ricoh. We are looking to buy the printer and are willing to spend I think upwards of about 40,000 give or take 5,000. Why this price, it is the minimum we would spend if we outsourced it so why not just buy it.
On solely looks on paper and meeting with the people I have to interact for the maintenence agreement, I like a local xerox company. I was looking into the Phaser 7800 (good for now I think) and the Xerox 700i (can handle supposedly heavier stock compared to 550) .
I do not know much on canon.
I did not really like the the ricoh company down here as one I did 'not like their descision making for me and too the fact that they memntioned I had to control my color costs. On the info print on the brochure, it mentions also "infoPrint reserves the right to bill for excessive toner consumption." Something I do like the sound of
I looked into the Konica minolta, but one they want to lease it at the cost of the xerox 700i, Konica Minolta bizhub PRO C5501 and two the resolution is 600 by 600 but 8 bit. I also do not like the fact I was lied to by them when they said one of there samples was printed on one of the bizhub but was told by a good friend that that could not be possible on what was given. There is another one I can go to to see if they offer a better price and service.
I looking for at least a little bit of quality. If you please though, I would like then some advice and some general info on to know about costs to operate, click fees, consumables, service contracts, reliability, alternatives with the same functionality to the one that I am considering.
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