Re: Printing bids - surprise!

[Mike Collier - SSG <MikeCol -at- SBSERVICES -dot- COM>]

Remember, though, that you get what you pay for. Kinkos uses minimum
wage labor and you might not get the attention to detail you'd get from
experienced printers. I would make sure to look at samples of similar
finished products from each bidder before deciding on basis of estimate.


Michael Collier
mikecol -at- sbservices -dot- com
SOFTBANK Services Group
Buffalo, NY
http://www.sbservices.com

>
>
>Folks -
>
>We just had a jaw-dropper.
>
>We went out for print bids on behalf of a client.  The specs were 100
>copies, 7 x 9 pages, double-sided, b&w.  Four-color cover (art coming
>from client), spiral bound with cover bound into it (we took a
>folded-paper demonstration to show what we wanted).  We looked for
>printers in the Silicon Valley area.
>
>We got bids from six different printers, with prices ranging from
>approximately $6 to $17 per book.  Granted, 100 copies isn't exactly
>cost-effective, but this is what the client wanted.
>
>Kinko's came in cheapest!  Surprise, surprise!  We could have expected
>some reasonably close bids on the Docutech-type insides, but to have the
>whole project come in lowest was a real eye-opener.  Has anyone else
>had  an experience like this lately?  Is Kinko's really getting into the
>printing business?
>
>Elna Tymes
>Los Trancos Systems
>
>
>

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