If you are paying $30-40 for a 20" circle, wholesale, you are crazy. I'm not going to get too into pricing on this side of the forum, but suffice to say the cost to print/lam is drastically lower than the cost to set-up and cut 3 layers of vinyl, then lay it stacked on site. Drastically.
Those prices were not wholesale, I used a local signshop for those needs at the time. If someone wanted something like that from me now that is easily the price point I would be at.
Loading up 3 different rolls of vinyl, weeding 3 different colors and applying TO ME outweighs the benefit of a little time saved. The overall cost of production on this job would not force me into outsourcing that logo if I did not have the means to print it. In fact I have the means and would still choose to cut it out of vinyl. That's just me though, to each their own. It's not like if I saw it printed I would roll my eyes.
If you had to print this (keep in mind taking the time to match the colors of cut vinyl perfectly) Let it dry, laminate, contour cut it etc. I really don't think there would be a "drastic" time difference. And if you had to deal with emailing a file, deal with delivery etc. would be similar outcome.
Don't get me wrong our industry is better off in many ways because of printing and wholesalers definitely have their place. IMO this is not one of them.
