Your vision, your budget, our experience
competitive offers from all over the world today. To fight back and get high power results from your print budget, strategic outsourcing is necessary.
No one would say it's not important to have quality standards consistently met, or vendors with a commitment to schedules, or an ongoing and effective program to lower costs.
However, to achieve those, you would need someone on your team who can provide a consultive approach - who knows your work and what you're trying to accomplish, who has the ability to consistently select the ideal plant and process, and who has a proven track record.
You would also need the benefits of various partner relationships with dozens of world class facilities, with specialized processes, and operating in lower cost geographical areas.
That's how Catalog Press does it for its customers.
Catalog Press represents you -your response rates, customer retention, your company's image, and your budget for every print project.
14 Ways to Squeeze the Most Out of Your Budget (complete)
By Section:
How is it going to be used?
Cost/return 2 binding methods
Uncoated paper characteristics
4 uncoated web paper comparison
Copy changes in 3 months but
you're out of catalogs NOW
A sectional solution
Prepare good art files
Checking basics
'File Submission Checklist'
Cash in on house stocks
Get a sample
Text pages can be in increments of 8 or 4
Money for nothing and your jobs
for free
Use the whole press sheet
'Can I get better pricing if I adjust trim size?'
Grain direction
Calculate how many up
Combine and get some jobs for free
Cut postage cost
One wafer seal or two?
USPS website
Calculate piece weigh
Case study saving $1,670/10,000
Avoid rework and mailing delays
Make a dummy and get it OK'd
Send product sample to box die maker
Get all the benefits
Digital, direct image offset, conventional
and perfecting sheetfed, cold + heatset
Operational costs - start up, running, inline
processes + paper
Printing process relative cost graph
Why overspend on anything?
Ideal plant and process for EVERY job
Widen the range and lower your costs
Primary cost factors - geographical base
costs, printing process, specialized
processes
Cash in on past budget overruns
Measure expectations against actual
Test assumptions
Internal or external?
Manageable or uncontrollable?
Change process + put someone in charge
Vendors can be free consultants
Up your response + customer retention rates
Top 4 for good response
Worst 2 methods
Poll customers to identify your benefits
Test and adjust the format
Preprint and save money
Case study with pocket folders
Common text sections and covers
Combine orders
What are start up costs?
Add a free product sheet to a 6 page
brochure
Plan based on last year
'How much if we award both jobs at the
same time?'
Negotiate volume discounts
Qualify volume and mix change possibility
Quality and service contingency
Be specific with specifications
Avoid wide ranges with 'cost per thousand'
Value to vendors
