09-12-2007, 10:40 PM
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Mesa Az
Posts: 5
Printer: Colorspan Gator Mutoh Toucan
what is your price on .5" gatorboard 64"x24" qty 6 prints
Greetings,
I am really enjoying being able to ask questions here. it is very helpful.
well I hate charging a fortune for mounted prints but is seems you have to. We do not have a flatbed printer so any mounted prints and on Avery 3003 adhesive vinyl with a standard overlam. this customer wants: 6 24"x64" .5 gator with print on one side. you can only get two prints per sheet 48x96 and the rest is scrap (we don't do a lot of mounting so it will lilkely sit a round for a long time).
My first guess would to base this price on my full 4x8ft price and it breaks down like this:
4x8ft .5" gator with print $654
back out the printing at $6 a sqft for a total of $192
this leaves the price of the 4x8ft board at $462
now divide the board by two (we can get two mounted prints per sheet) and you get $231 for the charge for the mounting and board
now add back the printing at $6 sqft and call the 64" print a 72" print so you get 6x2 ft so a total of 12 sqft per print and that is $72 for the print
Add the print and board together: $72+231=$303 for a 64"x24" print?
we based our full sheet on cost times 10 to get $654.
This seems like an awful lot to charge for a 64"x24" print.
How do you figure your price list for mounted prints on different substrates: Gator, Sintra, Coraplast, Plexiglass, Foamcore. do you use a stardard markup over cost? And what do you do about waste on odd size prints that creat a lot of waste out of full size sheets? Like when you do a 36x72" print and you have waste out of the rest of your sheet. that print would only use 18sqft and leave 14ft to be wasted that is in the shape of a 12"x96" and 24x36" (you can use a 24x36 but not the 12x96 very often)
Your comments would be great. thanks.
I am really enjoying being able to ask questions here. it is very helpful.
well I hate charging a fortune for mounted prints but is seems you have to. We do not have a flatbed printer so any mounted prints and on Avery 3003 adhesive vinyl with a standard overlam. this customer wants: 6 24"x64" .5 gator with print on one side. you can only get two prints per sheet 48x96 and the rest is scrap (we don't do a lot of mounting so it will lilkely sit a round for a long time).
My first guess would to base this price on my full 4x8ft price and it breaks down like this:
4x8ft .5" gator with print $654
back out the printing at $6 a sqft for a total of $192
this leaves the price of the 4x8ft board at $462
now divide the board by two (we can get two mounted prints per sheet) and you get $231 for the charge for the mounting and board
now add back the printing at $6 sqft and call the 64" print a 72" print so you get 6x2 ft so a total of 12 sqft per print and that is $72 for the print
Add the print and board together: $72+231=$303 for a 64"x24" print?
we based our full sheet on cost times 10 to get $654.
This seems like an awful lot to charge for a 64"x24" print.
How do you figure your price list for mounted prints on different substrates: Gator, Sintra, Coraplast, Plexiglass, Foamcore. do you use a stardard markup over cost? And what do you do about waste on odd size prints that creat a lot of waste out of full size sheets? Like when you do a 36x72" print and you have waste out of the rest of your sheet. that print would only use 18sqft and leave 14ft to be wasted that is in the shape of a 12"x96" and 24x36" (you can use a 24x36 but not the 12x96 very often)
Your comments would be great. thanks.
