Randy Thompson Director, Business Development Overview of Business Card and Stationery Production

Production Timeline Prepress Receive art Grouping Produce Plates Release to Press Room Press Room Schedule Press Time Assign to pressman Print job Finishing Move through slitting area Move to shipping

Prepress Art Preparation

Printing Plates / Imagesetter

Prepress Printing Plate Scheduling

Printing Press Make-ready

Pre-cut Paper Inventory

Printing Paper & Envelope Feed

Printing Ink to Paper

Printing Thermography Powder & Vacuum

Printing Thermography Heat / Delivery

Printing Finished Press Sheet

Envelope Delivery End

Finishing Foil Stamping Uses Dies of image pressed against stock over a colored ribbon of foil A slower process than printing Can be registered to either printed inks or to embossed images

Foil Stamp Die

Angled View

Stock Feed to Die

Embossing Die

Emboss die in press

Multi-Operation Example

Finishing Slitting Machine Feeder

Finishing - Slit Cards

Finishing - Slit Card Delivery End

Finishing - Inspection

Shipping - Labeling

Shipping Final Check and Packaging

Shipping Completed Orders

Pricing Model Driven by cost of ONE print run Plate cost Make ready cost Run Time ONE job per press run = $$/1 job FOUR jobs per press run = $$/4 jobs EIGHT jobs per press run = $$/8 jobs, etc.

Pricing Model Program Pricing driven by Ink color / paper stock combinations (how often we can run ink colors economically) Number of jobs per run (how many jobs we can print on the same sheet)

The Quoting Process Offer limited quantities BC – and add’l 1000’s Provide samples or PDF of products during the quoting process Provide annual volumes Accurate guesstimates of annual volume based on either order history from purchasing or size of company Provide ALL products to get quoted first time around Make sure specs are accurate one color vs. two color, etc.