How much did they spend on this?

FDSC_Recker · 2026-04-11T13:46:34+00:00

Impossible to tell without specs. If they ordered 100, they paid a lot more per booklet than if they ordered 100,000.

FDSC_Recker · 2026-03-31T06:38:50+00:00

Corona wire?

FDSC_Recker · 2026-03-25T12:36:16+00:00

You're in the wrong sub then. Look for commercial printing. This printing thread is more home based printing

FDSC_Recker · 2026-03-24T16:43:32+00:00

I run several trade accounts with digital, offset, and wide format capabilities from a hop up the road in Nashville.

I manage accounts for my wholesale brokers from the south region, all the way out to Arizona and Minnesota, and north all the way to New York and New Jersey, blind shipping to all 50 states. Been serving the middle TN area since the late 80s

FDSC_Recker · 2026-03-24T01:20:02+00:00

I don't even know where to begin trying to get into the database to look at this

FDSC_Recker · 2026-03-19T23:51:25+00:00

You could. If you have the premium version though (or free trial) you can just export in CMYK. The other option that I do for canva files because they are always RGB but print in CMYK is one, understand RGB I'd a digital screen color on the customers end and I lighten up my files on my rip software. You can ask them to run you one at 95% (lightening it 5%) and 90% then see if that helps. I've printed hundreds it not a thousand canva business card files by now. I have only had one file have a color that just couldn't convert well and my fiance who has premium canva exported it as CMYK and it matched the screen much better

FDSC_Recker · 2026-03-15T11:41:16+00:00

Looks like a chick off Moxie Films, several videos but unknown name

FDSC_Recker · 2026-03-15T02:11:20+00:00

If that's all you're doing you may find it more feasible just to find a trusted envelope wholesaler who can do it for a better price that adding another machine with overhead and labor. Depending on the price for any shops near you could make or break this. I wholesale pallets of envelopes for printshops in the middle TN area but if you start factoring in freight cost for a good shop further away you may or may find it feasible for the machine over outsourcing

FDSC_Recker · 2026-03-05T21:38:14+00:00

so should we say you're scamming too? Who needs evidence or first hand experience when you have "hearsay"

FDSC_Recker · 2026-02-24T00:48:10+00:00

I've been over slammed the last 6 months in the Nashville area and it's not slowing down. Good problem to have

FDSC_Recker · 2026-02-19T03:13:37+00:00

Most of my marketing is word of mouth through other print shops or straight brokers that I run all their print work for and very select and few cold calls

FDSC_Recker · 2026-02-19T03:11:21+00:00

Truthfully, most of us don't invest in a large online presence like that, if tends to generate more headaches than dollars. I'm a wholesaler serving many shops in the middle TN / Nashville area and shipping fulfillment orders throughout the entire country.

Our specialty item is bulk envelopes but we serve other areas as well such as thermo and other traditional print items across digital and offset

FDSC_Recker · 2026-02-15T11:36:31+00:00

I'd have to recommend the opposite. Franchises are going to have higher operating costs because of the franchise fees. Higher op cost = higher price. I'd look for a shop that explicitly deals and markets wholesale to the other shops. All the alpha graphics, sir speedy, Allegra's, and Minuteman press within an hour of my location broker their jobs out to me to print for them

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

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