@daniel McCauley please email me ! I'm an Texan Publisher and am looking to invest in printing machine equipment this year! This video was needed along the course of my research because I wanted to know how much in EXPENSES I am truly looking at. You teach printing classes? I am very interested
I am in the Printing field. I have been working for a printer for 30 years. Your channel is nothing but the truth about the print world. Thank you for putting this channel together.
I was about to shut off my computer when I saw a notification on my RU-vid account. Boom !! Dan has posted a new video !! This is by far one of the best video I've watched since I discovered your channel ! Such good and clear explanations, valuable advices !! Thanks a lot and have a nice weekend !
I’m a graphic designer and I am very interesting to run a small printing shop, I’m learning a lot from you thank you for sharing your knowledge. AWESOME
Wow! I am an estimator and we use complicated computer systems to estimate. So amazing to see you doing it on spreadsheet and piece of paper !! Good stuff :)
This is a delight and suprised that you talk about the km-1. You are right the UV inkjet printing now being applied to presses this is expected since the real issue is the speed of printing. Again, thank you for the insight.
Great information, very professional . . . .waiting for ur BHR Video. As you are using preowned equipment I am looking forward to a video on how and points need to be taken care of in buying preowned equipment. Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge!
I have ADHD and I LOVE the all over the place structure of the vids. You go through all the good parts while being pretty indepth, not go through it linearily, leaving the best parts for the end where I might not see it, having lost interest before that point.
One thing I would add... once you figure out your final sale price, compare it to the market value by checking other online printing companies. Even though you added your profit %, you may still be undercutting the market and missing out on additional profit or vice versa. Always sell at what the market says it's worth.
I enjoyed the video even though I am not a printer. I always had an interest in printing because for some reason books give me an euphoria when ever I am around a huge amount of them. The estimation rules tend to be the same across to doing machining jobs. It's all about knowing what your costs are and the level of units of product you have to make. It does give me an idea of what to look for if you ever want to have a book printed.
Yes, estimating is very similar across different professions. I too like to hear how others make decisions to see if I can get any new insight! Thanks for watching!
This economics subject is so valuable that I am looking for another video show about the same subject. It is something that I could use in my typewriting business. You are an excellent teacher. Also, I am subscribed to your channel. I am pleased to learn from you.
Great topic, I'm dealing with the digital vs. offset issue in my shop at the moment. It's a tough one to explain to people that are not familiar with the processes of how things are printed.
I see you from Uruguay .. I bought a Konica C1060 .. and your videos helped me a lot .. even how to transport it .. since I live in the interior .. (paysandu) .. now I was able to translate your videos into Spanish and I understand more haha .. thanks for all that help you give in your videos... I don't know if you have videos on how to change the transfer belt and cylinders... but if not... do them!!! thanks thanks
I love your frankness and honesty. Thank you. Have a couple questions please: Can you explain the binding cost. Also is the click cost basically toner cost?
Love the way you run your press single handedly. I very much want to do something very similar to what you are doing. Run a press independently. One man army. By the way I own a KM C6500 !!
One of my first jobs had this stupid rule (had the advantage of being fast) of charging double the paper. I wonder why they went bust... ;) Estimating is fun for the "weird" ones, especially when trying to manage how accurate do you want to be. But yes, I would have split the covers as well (I am sure you do too, it was just for the video that you took a shortcut), I would have included a bit more paper for tests (the binding surely will give you a few bad books you would have to cover somehow by printing more. Of course those can come out of profit, but... it would be nicer to account for them too... And to explain for those not "weird", the beauty is to create the spreadsheet for this and see how the price changes when you change some numbers, like how many books you want, and also checking after the job was done if the assumptions were correct.
Have you ever saddle stitched a job that you ran through your Morgana first? I have a customer that brought me a sample that is 100lb cover with a creased fold in the middle. How would you finish the job? Thanks for showing your bid process, it's very helpful.
Yup, I score covers all the time. You could print and crease your covers, then load them back in your press and print the booklets. Assigning a pre-printed cover in the Fiery.
Hi Dan, this is first time that I write a comment in RU-vid after many years of watch people do things that I like. Thank you for the inspiration and all the knowledge given. Today we receive our first digital press ( RICOH 7200) we are large format printing business that want to grow into paper. I’ve bought besides the RICOH: - Challenge 305 - AB Dick 58 - Bostitch # 7 My question for guidance is: how do you get new customers? I have my current ones but how you get those that want booklets, NCR forms, etc? Any ideas... I’m excited for what’s coming! Again thank you for all the wisdom ✌🏻
I've watched a bunch of your videos and always enjoy them- I'm wondering if you have software or some other way to track toner usage in a print job? for purposes of generating accurate pricing.
I own a 2 color Ryobi 3302 offset press. A Oki Data full color envelope printer. A handful of Konica Minolta copiers along with my workhorse Konica Minolta Accurio 2060. I also use Franklin Estimator software to quote jobs
I'm just new to printing and your content helps me a lot! I just want to ask, how much does a full 12x18 colored print costs? how much do you usually charge for small to bulk orders?
Hello Dan! I just discovered your channel and I can't tell you how much I'm thankful that you created it. I'd like to know if you print comic books (6x9) and how I can contact you to order some. Many thanks and keep up the good work.
Hi, Im new in Digital printing, is there by any chance a way to adjust the percent of toner my printer would use? So I can make the most out of every toner cartridge, thanks in advance my friend! Been learning a lot from your videos btw
hey bud. im just starting in printing business and may I ask what is your most common paper used for covers? and what gsm that could work in toner based printer. thanks a lot.
Hey man ive been watching for a few weeks now. Just subscribed. I have a sign shop and run out of my garage. One thing i get asked a LOT are for businesses cards. I dont know sh*t about it. I have a HP Latex printer and know about signage not small format printing. Whats a good start off printer for business cards?
Dan, why wouldn’t the KM-1 still produce book blocks for you? I would think you’d be getting 4-up letter or 8-up digest pre-collated blocks. You might need a bigger cutter (automated back-gauge!!!) but you’re PB wouldn’t need to change. Maybe a block feeder added for longer run-times between feedings but that would be it, I would think.
You are correct. I could still print collated book blocks. I still cannot get over the print quality on that! I cannot wait until that technology gets implemented on smaller more economical machines!
I keep commenting on your older videos lol.... But when it comes to paperback type books I think toner is crisper, but crisp isn't exactly the priority on offset for that....... They're books. Offset shines on high end, high quality, high quantity work...... Offset is king of overall efficiency in that realm for sure
Yes, offset will always be king of high quality and high quantity. I agree, the dense black of toner machines is great. I still cannot get on board with inkjet.
We always outsource our jobs when our presses are full, or unable to fulfill our customer's jobs on time, due to backlogs. I see that you're working alone, is it efficient to do so? But of course, we have large format inkjets, digital, offset, binderies, die-cut, folder gluers, etc. So we have a lot more labor than that. Very informational videos you have, just found your channel and subscribed. :)
Welcome! On one had working alone is efficient because labor costs are minimized. The downside it my equipment is not running as much as it could be. I am grateful and happy though.
@@justaprinter Yeah, it's possible with digital presses, because as you're printing, you can do your other finishings/post presses. I see your laminator is fully automatic too, so that's a good thing. I didn't manage to see your auto creaser. The ones we use are semi-auto, or manual, but of course, they're a lot cheaper.
Are there any situations where you would refuse to print a book? Have you ever had customers come to you with oddball books they wanted printed? Like stuff that isn't illegal to print but is highly sketchy
Dan, я очень часто наблюдаю, что ты печатаешь небольшие заливки цветом на 1070 и 3070. Вопрос такой: не рассматривал ли ты струйные промышленные машины для высокой скорости и более дешевые в эксплуатации, такие как Riso, для решения снижения себестоимости печати? ведь на цифровых машинах есть не только тонер, но и проходы драм-картриджей, а цена их немая. Жду ответа.
Я посмотрел на машины comcolor, и они оценивают ту же цену в 1 цент за страницу, что и у меня с машинами Konica с самообслуживанием. Цвет на comcolor тоже не такой приятный, на мой взгляд, тем не менее, приближается.
@@justaprinter но есть еще Brenva, много других струйных решений) И скорость печати на Riso именно для текста около 160, с возможностью Rip и обработки только цветных элементов без фото. И Riso точно дешевле 1 цента при небольшой заливке, но нет ресурсных частей кроме головок и краски. Краску можно купить дешевле в Японии (совместимую, неоригинальную). Просто с учетом увеличения тиражей C1070 и 3070 потребуют замены на C6100. А потом и на 12000 и 14000 (если вы видели эти машины)...К тому же есть тиражи, когда не особо важно качество, а важно заработать чуть больше прибыли на том, что потратить меньше своих ресурсов, как времени, так и расходных материалов.))
@@mussoliniducho Да, было бы хорошо дополнить мои нынешние тонерные машины струйной. Только для работ с низким уровнем покрытия чернилами. Благодарность!
Have you thought about using a KM inline perfect binder PB-503? If you are servicing KM yourself it will be less labourious. One click, out comes a perfect bound book. It wont be 4 up but ease of use much simpler?
@@justaprinter Do you run your press after hours? I load paper in my old C6000, print 50 books (330 pages bw) and pick them up in the morning. I do get paper jams sometimes which I attribute to having old technology (pre vaccum feed and the PB binder rollers not being 100% perfect-usually more issues with humidity). Only drawback is cover stock has to be thin not super thick.
Just a question...I bought a digital book called the Beato Book-a music learning book-400 some pages-where do I go to get it printed and how much can I expect to pay? Maybe it wasn’t such a good deal. Even if it was just spiral bound to make it easier to open. Hope I’m not under asking....if that’s a thing. I just want to be able to look to learn. Screens are ruining my eyes.
I purchased Konica because they were more economical to operate and currently have a large share of the digital print market. Xerox makes great machines too, but they are more expensive. Since quality is similar, I chose the cheaper option.
@@101artmedia I have a little Ricoh copier and I like that thing. I have not had any experience with Ricoh production machines. I would be tempted to give them a try but I am very happy with my Konica machines.
yes you should get a martini hand feed sewing machine. The big Smyth ones are too slow. Probably a FK 2 S would be best . Or a brehmer which is more robust than the Martini but doesnt sew a big size which you need to be able to do
Are you familiar with any academic or independent literary/poetry magazines? I am wanting to start my own poetry magazine. I will probably do anywhere from 50-150 pages per issue. It would be a small run of 200-500. I was thinking of getting my own printing equipment. Then I realized how much the equipment costs, plus how complicated it would be for me to operate. So, I was thinking of starting off with six issues a year, before eventually building up to twelve a year. Do you have any idea of much much something like that would run me? If you don't think my needs would best be met by your printing company, can you help point me in the right direction?
I print a few annual literary magazines for colleges. I'd be happy to give you a quote. Email me the size, page count, binding style and print quantity at service@justaprinter.com and I'll get back to you.
i just want to ask how much money do you need to have a print shop like that? what do you do when you run out of money but you want to invest in your bussines??
It depends if you want to buy new or used. Where you are located. You can easily look for machines in your area for current pricing. You can always get a loan if you run out of cash.
Is your target range of 40%-60% profit a markup or gross margin? Markup would be very low it seems, not even doubling your money. Am I missing something?
I use a spreadsheet. Which is pretty much a pricing program. Reason is that it is very easy to use. I can make any change I want to how pricing is calculated and it is free.
Mr. Printer... I'm Jorge (George) from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. I'm really interested to get in touch with you in a more direct way, to disccuss about the cost of a possible production. I would appreciate if you can provide me with more information on how to get in direct contact with you. Thank you. I'll be looking forward.
Click cost refers to imaging one side of a sheet of paper. That is how service agreements are set up. One sheet printed on one side would be one click. Double sided would be two clicks.
I don't calculate toner costs per page. I use consumables per page. Color would be about $0.04 and black would be around $0.01. That will be less if you service yourself.
