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  1. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    Stock price comes is the material you buy. If your common vinyl costs you $4 per square meter or square foot. thats the price. If coroplast costs you $20 a sheet. simple math can work our the square meters or square foot. Only reason i have the shop rate on the main page is if we had trade...
  2. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    I already explained it. Step 1: You enter the data once. below would be on a separate sheet Printer cost per hour (electricity, lamps etc) Printer cost per sqm (ink, etc) Printer cost per job (maintenance) Printer speed Save the spreadsheet Step 2: On the main sheet: you add the stock price...
  3. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    Kind of, sort of - if the software allows you to input all those pieces of data, and if the software can dynamically (where price changed per quantity) price the products. then yeah pretty much. but how much does software like this set the average user back? tools created in excel like this...
  4. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    This tool creates your core pricing structure. - That's all. You can use it in any way you'd like. We primarily use it to create product & pricing for our online system. If there's new stock pricing, we use it to update online pricing. And it only takes minutes. At times we've been asked to...
  5. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    Not really the type of calculator i've put together. you want to price up 10x 600x900 signs. 5 900x1200 signs. etc. you would input them individually. I could create a calculator that can create pricing with line items. but that would require the user to input a lot of data. Then in your...
  6. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    I've noticed some trade print vendors have a little calculator that you can mark up their pricing which is quite neat. if 1000 a6 postcards costs $150, you can add 100% to it + tax. so it would be $330 and you can quote off that.
  7. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    For example, im always looking for print pricing, not so much manufacturing signs. And a lot of the calculators have a standard area pricing and if you want a discount for 10 sheets, you enter a percentage, rather than knowing your cost per sheet for 1 sheet or 10 sheets. And sadly, a lot of...
  8. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    The original video concept was for those who wanted to create their own excel spreadsheet to price their own jobs in their shop. When formulas start to get complex with VLOOKUP etc, and especially if you don't know it well, it becomes a challenge to get right and finding errors. I have a lot...
  9. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    This has been the hot topic for the last year. So i want to create 1 thread where people can ask and others (including myself) will do the best to answer. this will save 100 new threads being created and people trying to search can find multiple answers in 1 place. I've been working out the...
  10. Printing White Under CMYK

    That only works when onyx generates the spot layers. If you did them yourself in illustrator or photoshop, i dont believe onyx allows you to choke/spread the spot channel.
  11. What are "Presses"?

    It's the lazy american way of not stretching a pizza. As james burk posted, it's a press for pizzas, would be same as rolling them with a rolling pin. You'd get the thin crunchy pizza crust. Stretched pizza dough is more authentic, which would be your typical newyork pizza.
  12. anyone have input on finding files big enough for large print?

    Photoshop resampling does a very good job these days. (CTRL+SHIFT+i)
  13. Arizona spitting on prints

    As if that's not the first thing you check? Every morning you should clean the undercarriage plate. Any ink drop is generally the cause from static and dust/dirt getting caught on the print heads or undercarriage.
  14. product templates for a new business

    If you want samples. We use 300mm x 300mm toughened / tempered low iron glass. (we use low iron as we print on it) this way it's small enough to keep in a box in your car etc. No point carrying around a massive sheet of glass. Or use acrylic.
  15. Need Help Arizona Flatbed Roll Media- Cannot get wallpaper to lay flat= Head scrapes

    Set tension to max on the arizona since there's only 3 levels. If it doesn't work, your stock is no good.
  16. Wanted - A Few Guinea Pigs for Testing

    aaahhhh what's this filter called? Gotta try it.
  17. 8k sticker order. I have questions

    Fast printer? how fast is fast? If if was us doing this job, 2 hours to print, rest of the day to cut on the plotter.
  18. What kind of computer do you guys run for a RIP?

    AMD Ryzen 9 5950x. 16 core / 32 thread. It's overkill for 99% of people here.
  19. What kind of computer do you guys run for a RIP?

    RIPs need processing power. not as much RAM. I have 12 large files open in the RIP and software open. Im using 7gb of ram out of 32gb.
  20. Second printer suggestion.

    Depends what you're doing. If your current printer is at capacity, You generally get a 2nd so your product is the same across both printers. OR You get rid of the rolland and get something faster. Only reason to switch to a different type is if you're doing other work that will benefit from...
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