Recent content by TimPiazza

Thank you everyone for your opinions. I have reached what I believe is a fair trade price for signs at varying quantities, so I will be outsourcing this service. Tim

This is why I am trying to keep the signage cost as low as possible. The signs are a pass-through cost. I make my money on the monthly subscription service, and I have a great deal of price flexibility. I sell on a low entry price point and the prospect that they establish relationships with...

You are probably right about that, but Player has me at $170,000 to print my first sign. :-) Maybe there is a solution for cost-effective, low-volume production. Maybe there's not. Sarcasm aside, can you think of a better place to ask than this community of printing pros?

Bill, that is a very interesting suggestion. Thank you. I will look into the Gerber Edge. I should also mention that I do not need a "state of the art" printer, I know there are lots of sign shops with well-functioning older equipment sitting in a closet because it was outmoded by a new purchase.

And don't forget the building to hold all this equipment, warehouse the pallets of Coroplast, the forklift to unload it, and the full-time staff to run everything. :-) Player, did I mention that I spent 30 years in the printing business? That I was a desktop publishing pioneer, produced...

Thanks, Binki. I would prefer to outsource, but getting the price point down on small orders with variable printing isn't going to be easy. Small orders are a pain and the most costly to produce. I suppose the simpler question would have been to ask if there is a small format printer that can...

First, by way of a quick intro so I don't sound like a complete newbie... I am not currently in the sign-making business, but I have a 30 year career in printing and digital prepress, starting out as a color scanner operator in the early 1980's. Currently, I am self-employed as an entrepreneur...