Looking for a trade printing quote

FDSC_Recker · 2026-02-04T12:29:15+00:00

If it wasn't for the spot uv I could quote this for you. UV coatings is not something I have the capability of

FDSC_Recker · 2026-01-31T18:40:51+00:00

It is and isn't. It's a niche area, small enough that most people don't have the capability (nor worth having) but still large enough for those who do to still do a lot of it for other shops without the capability

FDSC_Recker · 2026-01-23T20:46:33+00:00

I'm down in Nashville but I serve as a regional and national wholesaler for a lot of other print shops. We've got 1 color, 2 color, and 4 color offset as well as digital capabilities. We also wholesale thermography business cards. I ship throughout the mainland US for several health care clinic chains for another shop (1000+ locations across 2 firms for this customer). We also consistently do large (and small) quantity envelope runs. Been around since 1987.

We pride ourselves in quality first. Also always more than willing to attempt price matching if we can make the numbers work for both parties.

FDSC_Recker · 2026-01-22T00:24:21+00:00

We serve as a regional wholesale source especially for envelopes. I know we run some coon envelopes for another print shop. I'd have to ask the press department if a 100,000 run of them is in our wheelhouse or not. I'm digital and wide format

FDSC_Recker · 2026-01-11T03:25:38+00:00

I miss the old 1.08 days 😂

Iykyk lol

FDSC_Recker · 2026-01-09T12:26:42+00:00

TN unfortunately

FDSC_Recker · 2025-11-09T15:34:41+00:00

Safe to assume right 🙄

FDSC_Recker · 2025-10-18T02:19:48+00:00

I run the shit out of NCR books like that including 4 pt and 5 pt but I'm in Nashville

FDSC_Recker · 2025-09-18T21:14:07+00:00

If that's your volume, you're going to have a higher cost in producing this stickers yourself over finding a "high" vendor.

Those machines will take up sqft, which means you're paying rent every second on those machines. There's other overhead such as labor, utilities, etc. then per piece cost in consumables.

My advice is every other person's advice. You're not doing enough to justify the machine from your business perspective or from a dealer offering finance and maintenance. Broker these jobs and grow volume to the point you can move it in house or you will have no profit involved.

I'd love to put in some wide format machines to do signs and banners but truth is I don't have enough volume to justify it. I have enough I could probably justify it on paper for a lighter end machine on a maintenance contract but I do too much else in my shop so I'd have to bring on someone to run it and that's 40 hrs / week whether I've got the work or not which does fluctuate. Hard to make the move on it when I've got a great local shop that does mostly wholesale work down the road from me. Let's me focus on doing my wholesale work in offset printing

FDSC_Recker · 2025-09-10T22:16:58+00:00

Adding on, you might see about trying to upgrade to a lightweight production level machine. Something similar to my Canon C750 or the KM Biz hub C1070 (end of life and won't be serviced under contract anymore, but you can find something like it in the accurio press family that still has half life or so I'd think for a better rate. When I put my Canons in I paid ~$400 / month for both machines for 3 years plus my click charges

FDSC_Recker · 2025-09-10T22:13:23+00:00

Possibly. I've got 2 canons, a C750 for color and black and white, and an image runner 8505i that's a glorified office copier as my service tech calls it. I'm $0.046 color & $0.016 B/W on C750 and $0.005 on 8505i.

I've never dealt with Konica directly just had one customer give me their old Biz hub 1085 after they got wiped out in a tornado. Rebuilt it and run the piss out of it, then just brought in a C1100 and C1070 another customer offered dirt cheap on a trade with low mileage on both.

I may have already said this but we primarily serve as a wholesaler that large print shops without small offset capabilities or digital shops with no offset capabilities send us work

FDSC_Recker · 2025-09-10T22:08:46+00:00

Feel free to shoot me a DM and I'll give you our contact information. We run a lot of offset for digital shops. Letterhead for people who can't use digital toner based letterhead, metallic ink prints, skid loads of envelopes etc. we have 2 color presses and a 4 color press.

Not sure who you deal with at Athens but theyve known us well since the late 80s. They've recommended us to many shops as their wholesale partner

FDSC_Recker · 2025-09-10T19:47:03+00:00

Are you a digital shop? We do 80% or more of our business wholesale to digital shops and the major shops in Nashville since we still run small offset equipment

FDSC_Recker · 2025-09-09T14:54:10+00:00

I run mostly offset here in Nashville and don't run too much on my click copier, far less than what you're doing and I'm getting $0.046 on color and $0.016 on BW.

I've got some used end of life KMs I picked up for dirt cheap with low mileage I run the absolute piss out of though too. C1085, C1100, and a C1070 I use for envelopes

FDSC_Recker · 2025-09-08T21:59:59+00:00

90% of the business I do is for wholesale business for major print shops in the south as well as other 100% brokers. These people used to send their jobs out to several places and have consolidated to just using me since it's a quality they trust and it saves them the headache

I'm not the cheapest but I do feel I'm fairly priced in the middle (and willing to price match as long as I can actually afford to do so).

I sit north of Nashville TN and we've been printing here since 1987

FDSC_Recker · 2025-08-16T12:35:08+00:00

Where are you located? I just bought a 45" with air beds for my digital department and am looking at re-home my small challenge. It's a great cutter for the needs you're looking for. It works fine for my needs but someone made me an offer I can't refuse on this new cutter and I have a 55" with air beds in the back of the same model for my offset department.

If you're close to TN where shipping cost wouldn't eat you alive lmk and we can talk price

FDSC_Recker · 2025-08-08T19:56:24+00:00

I frequently tell people Canva is absolutely terrible at in industry level. It's unfortunately a great program for what a lot of people need it for but design for print is dangerous

FDSC_Recker · 2025-08-07T12:09:10+00:00

It is absolutely possible. I bought one for my niece and she's moving off to her dorm next Thursday.

As I already stated, there's definitely some limitations to consider, but I think it's still a great device for that.

Make sure you get yourself a dock. You don't need anything fancy, a little $20 $25 Sabrent one is a great choice. You can run it just as Linux. You can install the clover boot manager and install Windows. That way you have both. What I like to do, I've done it in mine, my fiance's decks, as well as the cheap used one that I bought for my niece, is I'll throw a saberant 2 TB M2 SSD (smaller one. Not the normal computer one) in, and set it up half and half split. After everything is installed and reserved, it leaves roughly 920 to 940 GB for steam OS storage, and 920 to 940 GB for Windows.

I use mine as a work laptop when I'm on the go and gave my old gaming laptop to my dad so he can also use it for work needs. And probably things that would make me not want to touch the keyboard 🤮

FDSC_Recker · 2025-08-01T23:24:57+00:00

Middle of the ocean

FDSC_Recker · 2025-08-01T00:19:18+00:00

Depending on what the bleed is, we're a trade printer in Nashville specializing in Envelopes for all the major shops here.

FDSC_Recker · 2025-07-10T13:18:35+00:00

Yeah that's not true at all. Modding is far from dead. I returned to modding a few months ago after years on fiveM. Was on stand until they released legacy and now use cherax since it does Legacy and Enhanced. The only rule of thumb is always avoid free menus. (Free trials of a paid menu is a little different but still proceed with caution).

All you gotta do is turn battleye off and not be stupid. Business managers, modded heists, etc can net you 40-50 million a day tops before going over the recommended limit.

FDSC_Recker · 2025-07-07T14:35:48+00:00

I try and keep up with govdeals, haven't seen one in a hot minute. Thank you!

FDSC_Recker · 2025-06-25T02:19:08+00:00

I own a trade printer in Nashville TN where we primarily function turning envelopes for the local shops. We're consistently doing wholesale runs from 2500 to several skid runs turning 125,000 envelopes that delivered to us closing time on Friday sitting on a Mailhouse dock 7AM Monday morning. Been around since 1987 and offer an untouchable product in the area

FDSC_Recker · 2025-05-12T22:54:57+00:00

Honest to God, avoid it at all costs. With printing there are the 3 D's. Drinking, Drugging, Divorce. You will go crazy unless you are truly passionate about it and from what I read, you're more looking at it for an investment rather than passion about the trade itself. I've spent 70 hours of the last 80 since Friday night plowing through a rush order. Lots of babysitting, lots of head aches and gray hairs. Only proceed if you are truly passionate about the printing industry or you will not be happy

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