subject: How To Save Money On Your Printing By Getting A Bulk Printed Stationery Order [print this page] Ordering your printed stationery in bulk can make a lot of sense.
Stationery printing benefits from economies of scale not associated with all forms of printing. This is because with lower print runs digital printing presses are often used. And digital printing involves the same 'run-on' cost for the 1,000th letterhead you print, as it will have done to print letterhead no.1.
However, when it comes to printing stationery in bulk your printers will use a lithographic press. Litho printing is completely different to digital. After a more expensive set up, each additional piece of printed stationery that rolls off the press has very little extra cost.
So, whereas printing a small number of letterheads on a large format litho press will produce an expensive print quote, the reverse will be the case if what you need is a bulk stationery order.
And you can use this simple fact to your own advantage.
Simple work out what a bulk stationery order would look like for your business by calculating how many letterheads, invoices or pieces of stationery you will use over a longer period of time than you would normally think to order.
For example, if you usually place a printed stationery order on a monthly bases, then calculate how many letterheads or business cards you might require over a year instead.
Now with this yearly stationery usage figure in mind, contact your printers and ask them for a bulk stationery order print quote.
Low and behold you will not just pay a little bit less like a 10% reduction in your stationery printing costs, but instead will find that your printing bill will plummet!
It is not unusual to find that producing your entire year's worth of printed stationery in one bulk order could save you in the region of 50% of your annual printing costs.
Future proof printing
While ordering a large amount of printing upfront will doubtless save you a very large amount of money - we estimate this approach could halve the stationery printing bill for most companies - you should bear in mind that it also exposes you to some risk.
Think about this.
You will know that if you purchase a plane ticket a long way in advance then you will be able to get a very significant discount on the price of your ticket. It is not unusual for a plane ticket to work out at say ?30, whereas if you wait until the last minute you might pay over ?250 for the same flight.
But this approach does of course limit your flexibility and if you decide nearer the time that you would prefer on a different date then you will lose your initial purchase price.
The same principle applies with bulk stationery print ordering. If you find that a detail - like your phone number or email address - changes at a later stage, then you will be stuck with a potentially large amount of printed stationery which may have some detail inaccurate.
Set against this is the fact that if you are able to place that order months in advance with enough stationery produced to last your organisation the entire year, then you will be rewarded by your printing budget falling dramatically. This might have other advantages which will hopefully be recognised by your Financial Director.
You never know, perhaps you will get a promotion for having discovered a way to save the business you work with thousands of pounds a year!
How To Save Money On Your Printing By Getting A Bulk Printed Stationery Order
