Which printing method?

Discussion in 'Print Community General Printing Discussion' started by minlex, May 2, 2008.

  1. minlex

    minlex New Member

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    I have learned a lot about color printing by reading this forum. There is a lot of really good information, and I was hoping someone could help me.

    We offer some personalized products that are not printed, but we have been getting request for personalized note pads. They would be color notepads.

    I found a padding press, cutter (not sure if automatic or guillotine is better) but I don't know the best way to print them.

    We will be selling the personalized pads for under $5, and feel we must bring the process in-house.

    memo pads, thank you notes, and possibly sticky-notes is all we will be printing. They would need to be in color. Most pads will be either 25 or 50 sheets.

    Any suggestion on printing equipment would be appreciated.
     
  2. boon

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  3. minlex

    minlex New Member

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    I am familiar with psprint, however, I want to start offering customers personalized note pads, and psprint isn't geared for that, I need the ability to print them in-house. Any information to help would be appreciated.
     
  4. JohnP

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    How about checking out www.colorFXweb.com, wholesale printing and personalized and custom size note pad printing must be supported by them!
     
  5. xfactor printing

    xfactor printing Senior Member

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    JohnP - is colorFX is selling equipment now? The website you linked appears to be selling printing services but the OP clearly states they want information on printing in-house.
     
  6. JohnP

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    xfactor printing - I just saw minlex needs to bring printing in-house because he can't find any printing company that would print his personalized note pads. So instead of suggesting any company that sells equipment, I'm suggesting him a company that maybe will be able to print his personalized requests and maybe could save him some time and money. And to my knowledge, ColorFX is not selling equipment!!
     
  7. HPC

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    Getting back to the original question, I think what someone else said needs to be answered first. What kind of quantities? Color... spot or process? Space and or power limitations??? Reason I am playing 20 questions is ya can go from a narrow web press with an auto chip inserter, to a nice digital machine that tabs. More info pls.
     
  8. David123

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    Personalized Notepads

    I tried Notepadsdirect.com for best printing methods.I got personalized notepads for business promotion according to my business needs.I am very happy to see a good result on my business through the promotional products from them.I got these good quality notepads at cheap rate and free shipping
     
  9. OkiTech

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    Hi Minlex. The correct question is not a what are you going to print but how many... If you plan on printing just a 10-20 pads per order, most likely digital equipment will be a better fit, if you plan on larger runs than offset press should be considered, also your skills... I f you never touched a press, digital equipment has lesser learning curve, more forgiving and less messy. The main difference Digital VS Offset is that with offset you experience most expense while prepping job to print, i.e. Make plates, put them on press, allighn and adjust everything, than once everything is peachy, you can run as much as you need, 5000 10000 whatever, than more you run, you divide the cost of start up to the greater amount of sheets there for make cost per sheet smaller. With Digital, it is the same cost per page no matter how many you run. Let imagine you have a machine with a contract, these days B/W click is about 1c and color is about 6-8, but if if you print 2000 sheets, each of them will cost the same... When you reply which one is better fits your business model I might be able to give you some guidance and may even offer few machines to consider - with no obligation :)
    Roman.
     
  10. charles_2012

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    Under $5, 50 sheets ? If it's full size you may lose money because you must print on a digital color printer.
     

  11. plotter

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    buy an ab dick, and do spot colours. i do thousands of them
     
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