With the recent budget cuts and restraints, cost is very important. With several different printing methods for you to choose from, it can be difficult to determine which to use. When it comes to cost there are several items that figure into your final price. Estimates can help you plan printing orders. To get the most accurate estimate for your job, be specific and provide as much information as possible. From this point we can discuss job specifications, and make suggestions that can help you cut costs but still have the quality piece you desire. Some ideas could be:

• Have your file ready and proofread when you bring it in. Thorough proofing should
  be taken seriously and is necessary to avoid costly re-runs.
• Allow us enough time to do the job in the most cost efficient way. Practical
  planning is the most important key; know ahead of time exactly what you want.
• Sometimes it is more cost effective to put it on an offset press rather than through
  our digital printers.
• Printing on standard size paper and not bleeding the image off the page will help with
  cost control.
• Are you typically reprinting certain jobs several times a year? When possible,
  anticipate your annual needs for these jobs. Getting a maximum press run
  the first time saves time and money. Produce as many copies of your
  job as you will need. Once the press is set up, the ink mixed, and the paper
  ordered, it is considerably less expensive to print multiple copies than to run
  just a few with the intention of printing more in the near future.
• If you know you will be using the same publication over a period of time, try
  to design it so that it can be reprinted without changes being made.
  Alterations require more time & effort, and depending on the extent
  of the changes, can be as expensive as printing a new job. If you have
  space for storing, you may consider ordering a years worth of the
  publication, as it is less expensive than reprinting.
• If you are printing newsletters, bulletins and other periodic publications,
  consider having “preprints” made. We can print your masthead, title
  bars, etc. in color, store them for you, and then imprint the black ink
  copy for each issue on our digital printers. This allows you to have
  multiple ink colors on you publication without paying for it each time
  you publish a new edition and helps speed up the printing process.
• Using screens in your publication can be a good way to add dimension and
  visual interest to you piece. This is also a good way to create the illusion
  of more colors when you may only be using one or two ink colors.
• Be sure of mailing list counts. Do not print over what you need so you will not
  have a large carryover.
• Create documents to be self mailers instead of using envelopes.

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