quotation formula?
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Morning Flight
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Hi pgr,
Are you asking about how to price the binding and finishing of books, or about pricing other postpress ops such as cutting and folding? The difference is somewhere between driving a Jeep and a Formula 1 race car.
The easiest way to price postpress is also the most common: Setup + Cost per 1,000, with or without a minimum charge. See the attached from the forever-free Morning Flight download. That's the Jeep.
For the Formula 1 version, the one that prices bookbinding, I'd suggest Philip Ruggles book "Printing Estimating," page 617. You can pick up an older edition at Amazon for under $10.
Amazon.com: Printing Estimating: Principles and Practices (9780827338050): Philip Kent Ruggles: Books
Don't spend more than $160, though. You can get an estimating program that automates the whole booklet pricing process - printing and binding - for less.
Hal
Are you asking about how to price the binding and finishing of books, or about pricing other postpress ops such as cutting and folding? The difference is somewhere between driving a Jeep and a Formula 1 race car.
The easiest way to price postpress is also the most common: Setup + Cost per 1,000, with or without a minimum charge. See the attached from the forever-free Morning Flight download. That's the Jeep.
For the Formula 1 version, the one that prices bookbinding, I'd suggest Philip Ruggles book "Printing Estimating," page 617. You can pick up an older edition at Amazon for under $10.
Amazon.com: Printing Estimating: Principles and Practices (9780827338050): Philip Kent Ruggles: Books
Don't spend more than $160, though. You can get an estimating program that automates the whole booklet pricing process - printing and binding - for less.
Hal
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