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

3. 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

4. Prepress Art Preparation

5. Printing Plates / Imagesetter

6. Prepress Printing Plate Scheduling

7. Printing Press Make-ready

8. Pre-cut Paper Inventory

9. Printing Paper & Envelope Feed

10. Printing Ink to Paper

11. Printing Thermography Powder & Vacuum

12. Printing Thermography Heat / Delivery

13. Printing Finished Press Sheet

14. Envelope Delivery End

15. 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

16. Foil Stamp Die

17. Angled View

18. Stock Feed to Die

20. Embossing Die

21. Emboss die in press

22. Multi-Operation Example

23. Finishing Slitting Machine Feeder

24. Finishing - Slit Cards

25. Finishing - Slit Card Delivery End

26. Finishing - Inspection

27. Shipping - Labeling

28. Shipping Final Check and Packaging

29. Shipping Completed Orders

30. 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.

31. 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)

32. The Quoting Process Offer limited quantities BC – 250-500-1000 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.