Less Pages, Higher Cost??

Hi,

We've been printing a 32pp, A4 finished size, self cover magazine on our Komori 640, which has just dropped in page number to 28pp. We outsource our binding and stitching and as the publication has now changed from a 2 x 16pp section book to 3 sections (16pp + 8pp + 4pp) both our printing and binding costs have increased dramatically. Our client cannot get his head around the fact that a smaller publication will cost him(and us) more to produce. He threatens to pull the job from us, claiming other printers will charge him less - how can this be?? Just wondering if anyone has any clues to what might be solution here,

Thanks for reading,
Johno

 

Hello my name is Brady, Any time you add more sigs to any book this will increase cost on binding. Tell me how you are running this on the press I assume a 2up work and turn, and you are proably folding it on a 16 page folder. Blanks in the back of the book must not be an option for your client. But if you could let me know the layout for the press and the folder. I dont know if i can help but if your willing i'll try.

 

You should be able to run the job at the same cost, run a 16 and a 12 page sig, the 12 pager is layed out 3 across the 35" and 2 down on the 23" and is tri-folded and then a half-fold. It is the same paper cost and bindery should be the same because it is still 2 sigs. I hope this helps.