Printing bids - surprise!

Subject: Printing bids - surprise!
From: Elna Tymes <etymes -at- LTS -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:36:08 -0700

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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