What printing equipment needed for printing in-house - plz do help

[hasanali00]

Hi

I hope someone can guide me. I have spent whole Sunday afternoon searching for some guidance but have not found any, so i have decided to join this forum hoping that someone will be able to give me the answers.

I work in a community centre. previously we used to outsource our printing jobs to other printers. But now the management has decided to do the printing in-house. I have been given the task to find out what equipment we need to fulfil our printing requirements.

I understand some of you would say: Just stick to outsourcing. But I am trying to find answers that can tell us what equipment we need and how much it will cost.

Our requirements are:

- A5 & A6 multipage colour booklets - 2000 copies per annum

- multipage colour Newsletters - 1000 copies per annum

- A3 colour posters - single & double sided - 500 per annum

- A4 & A5 colour leaflets / brochures - 1000 copies per annum

In future we may also print paperback books (1000 copies) and A2 posters.

So my question is: what sort of printing equipment & other equipments we would need for such jobs?

Would it be just a matter of buying a decent colour printer or would we need specialist printing equipment?

I would be really grateful if you can recommend some equipment. As our printing job is small our budge is small as well, may be around £800 - £1300.

Thanks for your help

 

[rsands]

I can guarantee you will not do this for £800-£1300

Booklets for example are printed using bigger sheets to get borderless printing and then you need a guillotine and booklet maker minimum....guillotines alone are above your budget never mind an a3 printer that can do duplex and give good registration.

a2 posters your going to need a large format printer...few thousand to start, then a trimmer to trim them at quite a few hundred

we have over 90,000 worth of equipment to do what your looking to do but then again we are producting quality booklets, etc


Richard

 

[Josh]

Yep, I'd second what Richard said... you're incredibly off the mark in terms of budget.

I'd have guessed £30,000 as a minimum and even then you're going to be right at the bottom in terms of quality/spec.

 

[Correct Color]

Fore more than a few years more than a few years ago, I used to buy, sell, and broker printing equipment for a living.

And more than one time I probably cost myself business when someone would call me and ask a question just such as this. Hhere's the answer I'd give them, and it's true for you as well:

Start by understanding that printing is a very low margin business. Most printers, in fact, would kill for a steady seven to eight percent. It may seem to you that it's just paper and it should cost way less than it does and any idiot could do it for way less. But that's because you don't understand what's involved in it.

What you're looking at is that if you buy exactly the right equipment, and if you hire exactly the right people, and if you manage to assemble them properly and have just precisely the right amount of work to keep machines and people busy at maximum efficiency year round--the likelihood of all of which, of course, are absurdities--the most you can hope to save off of what you pay now...is at most 7-8 percent.

My advice: Spend your money elsewhere.


Mike Adams
Correct Color