I discovered this channel and now use it to teach a graphics & printing online to my students since the schools are closed. AWESOME!

I am in the Printing field. I have been working for a printer for 30 years. Your channel is nothing but the truth about the print world. Thank you for putting this channel together.

You are awesome... Thanks, This has been the most helpful video on estimating printing costs I have seen.

I was about to shut off my computer when I saw a notification on my KZfaq account. Boom !! Dan has posted a new video !! This is by far one of the best video I've watched since I discovered your channel ! Such good and clear explanations, valuable advices !! Thanks a lot and have a nice weekend !

Thank you for the video of book estimation. It was educational and I apply the same in my work and it looks great and promising. Much appreciated!

This is awesome information. It is all I need to get into my book on-demand printing set-up. Thanks

Very, very good video. Informative, concise and pleasant to watch. Thank you for taking the time to make this video and upload it.

Thank you for being person you doing such an incredible job and sharing your story... God Bless

Great Video. No one shares these type of details to general public. Great work. Please continue.

I am so tired of the perfect binder. Spent 12 hours running the beast today. I admire you and your videos.

Great points. Very professional approach to quoting! Fair for all!

I’m a graphic designer and I am very interesting to run a small printing shop, I’m learning a lot from you thank you for sharing your knowledge. AWESOME

This is a delight and suprised that you talk about the km-1. You are right the UV inkjet printing now being applied to presses this is expected since the real issue is the speed of printing. Again, thank you for the insight.

Love your videos very informative keep them coming

I am inthe printing business too, and your videos are spot on! You have my likes and subscribe!!

Very informative, thanks for sharing. I want to start my own print business and I have found your videos to be very helpful.

It's been very helpful to me. I always struggle with estimating and pricing.

Wow! I am an estimator and we use complicated computer systems to estimate. So amazing to see you doing it on spreadsheet and piece of paper !! Good stuff :)

Great information, very professional . . . .waiting for ur BHR Video. As you are using preowned equipment I am looking forward to a video on how and points need to be taken care of in buying preowned equipment. Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge!

One thing I would add... once you figure out your final sale price, compare it to the market value by checking other online printing companies. Even though you added your profit %, you may still be undercutting the market and missing out on additional profit or vice versa. Always sell at what the market says it's worth.

I enjoyed the video even though I am not a printer. I always had an interest in printing because for some reason books give me an euphoria when ever I am around a huge amount of them. The estimation rules tend to be the same across to doing machining jobs. It's all about knowing what your costs are and the level of units of product you have to make. It does give me an idea of what to look for if you ever want to have a book printed.

This economics subject is so valuable that I am looking for another video show about the same subject. It is something that I could use in my typewriting business. You are an excellent teacher. Also, I am subscribed to your channel. I am pleased to learn from you.

Great topic, I'm dealing with the digital vs. offset issue in my shop at the moment. It's a tough one to explain to people that are not familiar with the processes of how things are printed.

Really useful!! I was thinking about that topic

Very interesting and helpful. Thank you!

I have ADHD and I LOVE the all over the place structure of the vids. You go through all the good parts while being pretty indepth, not go through it linearily, leaving the best parts for the end where I might not see it, having lost interest before that point.

this video helped a lot! thank you!

Thank you very much for your comments. It has been very educational. Much appreciated.

Perfectly explained! Greetings

Love the way you run your press single handedly. I very much want to do something very similar to what you are doing. Run a press independently. One man army. By the way I own a KM C6500 !!

A BIG Thanks 🙏 from Germany 🇩🇪

Great information - thank you

I love your frankness and honesty. Thank you. Have a couple questions please: Can you explain the binding cost. Also is the click cost basically toner cost?

I needed this, thank you :)

I see you from Uruguay .. I bought a Konica C1060 .. and your videos helped me a lot .. even how to transport it .. since I live in the interior .. (paysandu) .. now I was able to translate your videos into Spanish and I understand more haha .. thanks for all that help you give in your videos... I don't know if you have videos on how to change the transfer belt and cylinders... but if not... do them!!! thanks thanks

Hi Dan, this is first time that I write a comment in KZfaq after many years of watch people do things that I like. Thank you for the inspiration and all the knowledge given. Today we receive our first digital press ( RICOH 7200) we are large format printing business that want to grow into paper. I’ve bought besides the RICOH: - Challenge 305 - AB Dick 58 - Bostitch # 7 My question for guidance is: how do you get new customers? I have my current ones but how you get those that want booklets, NCR forms, etc? Any ideas... I’m excited for what’s coming! Again thank you for all the wisdom ✌🏻

Have you already done a video on calculating BHR? That's definitely something I am interested in learning more about.

One of my first jobs had this stupid rule (had the advantage of being fast) of charging double the paper. I wonder why they went bust... ;) Estimating is fun for the "weird" ones, especially when trying to manage how accurate do you want to be. But yes, I would have split the covers as well (I am sure you do too, it was just for the video that you took a shortcut), I would have included a bit more paper for tests (the binding surely will give you a few bad books you would have to cover somehow by printing more. Of course those can come out of profit, but... it would be nicer to account for them too... And to explain for those not "weird", the beauty is to create the spreadsheet for this and see how the price changes when you change some numbers, like how many books you want, and also checking after the job was done if the assumptions were correct.

Really is amazing and help me

I own a 2 color Ryobi 3302 offset press. A Oki Data full color envelope printer. A handful of Konica Minolta copiers along with my workhorse Konica Minolta Accurio 2060. I also use Franklin Estimator software to quote jobs

Hello Dan! I just discovered your channel and I can't tell you how much I'm thankful that you created it. I'd like to know if you print comic books (6x9) and how I can contact you to order some. Many thanks and keep up the good work.

Love it 👌🏻 hey Dan did you change the hydraulic oil in your Challenge? video please, i have the same cutter 😁.

I'm just new to printing and your content helps me a lot! I just want to ask, how much does a full 12x18 colored print costs? how much do you usually charge for small to bulk orders?

worth it ♥

Have you ever saddle stitched a job that you ran through your Morgana first? I have a customer that brought me a sample that is 100lb cover with a creased fold in the middle. How would you finish the job? Thanks for showing your bid process, it's very helpful.

Very interesting, I want to develop this type of setup.

Correct assessment is the foundation of any business. Thx )

Great info. Thanks. As a printer, how do you make sure the colors in color prints coming out of your machines are acceptable?

I've watched a bunch of your videos and always enjoy them- I'm wondering if you have software or some other way to track toner usage in a print job? for purposes of generating accurate pricing.

Thank you so much, this video is awesome. just a quick one, the "per-click" do you mean the ink/toner cost?

Great work my friend! I will be contacting you. I would like to print my first paperback. Thanks for your info! -Dave

Спасибо за полезное разьяснение стоимости!

i want create my book now ty

i love you!

HANDBOOK OF PRINT MEDIA was like almanah in my printing studies :D Now i think all 4 years we learn just that one book :DD

cool info.

very informative

Great video. How about a video on prepress? Thanks.

Useful ❤

Dan, why wouldn’t the KM-1 still produce book blocks for you? I would think you’d be getting 4-up letter or 8-up digest pre-collated blocks. You might need a bigger cutter (automated back-gauge!!!) but you’re PB wouldn’t need to change. Maybe a block feeder added for longer run-times between feedings but that would be it, I would think.

Hey man ive been watching for a few weeks now. Just subscribed. I have a sign shop and run out of my garage. One thing i get asked a LOT are for businesses cards. I dont know sh*t about it. I have a HP Latex printer and know about signage not small format printing. Whats a good start off printer for business cards?

Like it!

Hi, Im new in Digital printing, is there by any chance a way to adjust the percent of toner my printer would use? So I can make the most out of every toner cartridge, thanks in advance my friend! Been learning a lot from your videos btw

Your voice is like an ASMR. hehe. Anyway, thanks for sharing these knowledge. :)

We always outsource our jobs when our presses are full, or unable to fulfill our customer's jobs on time, due to backlogs. I see that you're working alone, is it efficient to do so? But of course, we have large format inkjets, digital, offset, binderies, die-cut, folder gluers, etc. So we have a lot more labor than that. Very informational videos you have, just found your channel and subscribed. :)

India quotation 100gsm paper 18x23 size sheet = 12000/- (157 $) Single colour printing with CTP plate(11 plate ×800/-)=8800 (125$) Cover title 300gsm art paper 3000 RS multicolor offset printing charge + 2000/- RS 300gsm paper + thermal lamination 2000/- RS = 7000 RS (100$) Perfect Binding = 12000 /- (171$) Offset Total price = 553$ toata always watch your videos and enjoying sir

hey bud. im just starting in printing business and may I ask what is your most common paper used for covers? and what gsm that could work in toner based printer. thanks a lot.

hi there, First of all, thank you for all your information. However, I have a question, what exactly do you refer to when you said "Cost per Click?

Wow so great where are you based. So the cost of Printing a 1000 books will be about 1800 dollars right does this including shopping

Can you do a video on requirements for start ups. Prices of machines as well

Could you please make a video about Horizon SPF 20A?

Hello! How much would you charge for a 1:1 coaching on how to print and bind books? Including a run down on machines and prices, etc?

Have you thought about using a KM inline perfect binder PB-503? If you are servicing KM yourself it will be less labourious. One click, out comes a perfect bound book. It wont be 4 up but ease of use much simpler?

I keep commenting on your older videos lol.... But when it comes to paperback type books I think toner is crisper, but crisp isn't exactly the priority on offset for that....... They're books. Offset shines on high end, high quality, high quantity work...... Offset is king of overall efficiency in that realm for sure

hi, what paper size do you use? we don't have press size here on India.

Are there any situations where you would refuse to print a book? Have you ever had customers come to you with oddball books they wanted printed? Like stuff that isn't illegal to print but is highly sketchy

So do you sell the job for $1,775 or do you add the 40 - 60% to put it somewhere in the $2,500 range?

Why did you buy Konica PRESS? What do you think about Xerox?

i just want to ask how much money do you need to have a print shop like that? what do you do when you run out of money but you want to invest in your bussines??

Are you familiar with any academic or independent literary/poetry magazines? I am wanting to start my own poetry magazine. I will probably do anywhere from 50-150 pages per issue. It would be a small run of 200-500. I was thinking of getting my own printing equipment. Then I realized how much the equipment costs, plus how complicated it would be for me to operate. So, I was thinking of starting off with six issues a year, before eventually building up to twelve a year. Do you have any idea of much much something like that would run me? If you don't think my needs would best be met by your printing company, can you help point me in the right direction?

Just a question...I bought a digital book called the Beato Book-a music learning book-400 some pages-where do I go to get it printed and how much can I expect to pay? Maybe it wasn’t such a good deal. Even if it was just spiral bound to make it easier to open. Hope I’m not under asking....if that’s a thing. I just want to be able to look to learn. Screens are ruining my eyes.

Hello I’m a big fun of yours. U said your cost per click A4 size paper is 0.025$ is it at 20%,60% or 100% ink coverage

Dan, я очень часто наблюдаю, что ты печатаешь небольшие заливки цветом на 1070 и 3070. Вопрос такой: не рассматривал ли ты струйные промышленные машины для высокой скорости и более дешевые в эксплуатации, такие как Riso, для решения снижения себестоимости печати? ведь на цифровых машинах есть не только тонер, но и проходы драм-картриджей, а цена их немая. Жду ответа.

Can you please advise the size of those press sheets. 13 x 19? 14 x 26?

men what a video. let me ask you, what do you mean when you say click cost? i am new in this print world, perhaps is a common fhrase...

sir what paper do you use for books like novel?

those prices are awesome high!!!

From what I can see you don't seem to use a computerized pricing program. Any reason why?

yes you should get a martini hand feed sewing machine. The big Smyth ones are too slow. Probably a FK 2 S would be best . Or a brehmer which is more robust than the Martini but doesnt sew a big size which you need to be able to do

Hi, how much is the toner cost per page ? Single side .

Is your target range of 40%-60% profit a markup or gross margin? Markup would be very low it seems, not even doubling your money. Am I missing something?

Does your binder have PUR, hotmelt or both?

i have always thought inject printing is more expensive than lazer printing...hello from Greece

Very informative and useful videos you make, kudos :). I am also in this business with POD facility for last two and half years, May I seek some more guidance, if not a problem ? how can I reach you via email or any other media ? Your positive response in highly appreciated :)

Mr. Printer... I'm Jorge (George) from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. I'm really interested to get in touch with you in a more direct way, to disccuss about the cost of a possible production. I would appreciate if you can provide me with more information on how to get in direct contact with you. Thank you. I'll be looking forward.

What is the cost per book using these figures?

You can tell the difference in prints cuz your in the business, just as I am a DJ and I can hear other DJs when they are slightly off

Hello Hello Hello ..... Would you please show us your perfect binding equipment ...... Many Thanks

I have a lot of questions, how can I talk to you or email you?

so my 1700 page book (front and back) only has approximately 850 pages?