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  1. Aluminum Welding

    It depends how strong you want it to hold and how good you want it to look. You can use a TIG Which is the most common method. Or use a MIG with a spool gun. And it also depends what it is as aluminium needs to stay hot to weld properly. Aluminium being aluminium, a good heat sink, keeping...
  2. Polished edges on acrylic

    You can find someone to laser cut them for you. This also costs more. Or You can flame the edges with a torch.
  3. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    I can't edit the first post, so here's the link. This is the "lite" version. It's a no frills calculator. Print price calc V1 LITE All it will do is price up what it costs you to print a job. There's instructions inside. I've disabled all the cells so you cannot accidently click and alter...
  4. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    Update: Today/Tomorrow I'll upload a lite version of our calculator. I'll dress it up etc so it's pretty. Have a play and post feedback. Features you'd like to see etc And i'll see how far im willing to take it. As this stuff obviously takes a lot of time.
  5. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    I wish there was a one size fits all. I do my best for a 1 size fits all, but even we need to use our calc + additional formulas for other specific products. But to answer your question, yeah it works for 1 offs or 2x., Or even 1000x As calculator allows for a minimum charge. I can even set...
  6. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    I've heard of printsmith, by EFI? There's a lot of variables people tend to forget, or lose track on how to adapt a formula to their pricing structure. It's easy to follow someone else's method, but coming up with the method takes a lot of time. If i wanted to use excel for quoting. I could...
  7. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    I guess where it comes down to for me is more so helping those who are starting out, using what you have available. Im sure i could go get a subscription of FileMaker pro, create it all in there, but it's no use to me. All our business is now online. All our products, pricing is online. Our...
  8. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    I appreciate your questions. Please remember, this is a Calculator to create product pricing. To be used how the user wishes to use. It's something, rather than nothing. Especially for those who don't even know where to start pricing their prints. I'll do my best to continue to answer your...
  9. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    Stock price comes is the material you buy. If your common vinyl costs you $4 per square meter or square foot. thats the price. If coroplast costs you $20 a sheet. simple math can work our the square meters or square foot. Only reason i have the shop rate on the main page is if we had trade...
  10. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    I already explained it. Step 1: You enter the data once. below would be on a separate sheet Printer cost per hour (electricity, lamps etc) Printer cost per sqm (ink, etc) Printer cost per job (maintenance) Printer speed Save the spreadsheet Step 2: On the main sheet: you add the stock price...
  11. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    Kind of, sort of - if the software allows you to input all those pieces of data, and if the software can dynamically (where price changed per quantity) price the products. then yeah pretty much. but how much does software like this set the average user back? tools created in excel like this...
  12. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    This tool creates your core pricing structure. - That's all. You can use it in any way you'd like. We primarily use it to create product & pricing for our online system. If there's new stock pricing, we use it to update online pricing. And it only takes minutes. At times we've been asked to...
  13. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    Not really the type of calculator i've put together. you want to price up 10x 600x900 signs. 5 900x1200 signs. etc. you would input them individually. I could create a calculator that can create pricing with line items. but that would require the user to input a lot of data. Then in your...
  14. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    I've noticed some trade print vendors have a little calculator that you can mark up their pricing which is quite neat. if 1000 a6 postcards costs $150, you can add 100% to it + tax. so it would be $330 and you can quote off that.
  15. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    For example, im always looking for print pricing, not so much manufacturing signs. And a lot of the calculators have a standard area pricing and if you want a discount for 10 sheets, you enter a percentage, rather than knowing your cost per sheet for 1 sheet or 10 sheets. And sadly, a lot of...
  16. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    The original video concept was for those who wanted to create their own excel spreadsheet to price their own jobs in their shop. When formulas start to get complex with VLOOKUP etc, and especially if you don't know it well, it becomes a challenge to get right and finding errors. I have a lot...
  17. Discussion Pricing your print/jobs/installs >>MEGA Thread<<.

    This has been the hot topic for the last year. So i want to create 1 thread where people can ask and others (including myself) will do the best to answer. this will save 100 new threads being created and people trying to search can find multiple answers in 1 place. I've been working out the...
  18. Printing White Under CMYK

    That only works when onyx generates the spot layers. If you did them yourself in illustrator or photoshop, i dont believe onyx allows you to choke/spread the spot channel.
  19. What are "Presses"?

    It's the lazy american way of not stretching a pizza. As james burk posted, it's a press for pizzas, would be same as rolling them with a rolling pin. You'd get the thin crunchy pizza crust. Stretched pizza dough is more authentic, which would be your typical newyork pizza.
  20. anyone have input on finding files big enough for large print?

    Photoshop resampling does a very good job these days. (CTRL+SHIFT+i)
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