posted 14-03-2002 01:51 PM GMT
Hello one and all!First off, congratulations to one and all in getting the great new issue of Zzap off the ground.
I work in a publications / design team and part of my job is print buying, so I thought I would have a look at printing costs for the new Zzap!
I'd be quite keen to get a professionally printed copy of the new mag as I am sure a number of others would too.
I always knew it would be expensive, but thought I would have a look anyway. I'm also not sure what the interest in buying a copy is, especially at these prices, but have a look at the costs and let me know.
It's based on printing to A4 size, and I'm not sure what format you laid the artwork up at, so it might be that when it's trimmed it comes in somewhere a little smaller than the original Zzap magazines.
This, my friends is what it would cost to print. Remember, this is based on digital printing using an Indigo press, not litho, but digital printing standards are pretty good now.
If only 10 copies were printed, each copy would be £37 plus delivery (ouch).
If 50 copies were produced it would come down to £15 plus delivery.
If 100 copies were produced the unit cost would come down to about £12 per copy plus delivery.
Now, this is pretty expensive. At £12 it's not too bad, seeing as we probably all lash out £5 on magazines these days without thinking about it and this would be a new copy of Zzap, but if the the call was much less than 100, the unit cost is pretty well prohibitive.
It would be printed in 4 colours on 170gsm art paper, collated, trimmed and saddle stitched.
What do people think?
You might have already done this and decided it was not worth it, but I thought I would have a look at the costs.
If the interest is high, then I will do some more investigations into getting a better deal. It won't come much lower than this though unless we could somehow get a much bigger interest.
We'd also have to look at a fair safe way of getting the money together as I don't have £1000 to pay up front for it. Personally, I wouldn't want to spend any more than the £15 mark for an issue, this would need another 49 people who want to spend this on it.
Please note, these are cost prices, I am not adding anything or attempting to make any cash out of this idea.
Let me know...