Thanks you guys for following up on this -- I kept meaning to but putting it on the back burner. My assumption was that Scott would send us the design, and we would get it printed at this end, to save on shipping costs. I'm very surprised if there's no price difference between one color and four colors. It seems to me that we'd had an estimate before where those costs were different, but I could be mistaken.
Love & liberty,
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Starchild wrote:
Thanks you guys for following up on this -- I kept meaning to but putting it on the back burner. My assumption was that Scott would send us the design, and we would get it printed at this end, to save on shipping costs. I'm very surprised if there's no price difference between one color and four colors. It seems to me that we'd had an estimate before where those costs were different, but I could be mistaken.
Love & liberty,
<<< starchild >>>
In normal offset printing, there would be a cost savings by having fewer colors. But offset printing is only cost-effective when you're ordering more than 500 - 1,000 copies of a poster, pamphlet, or something similar. For short runs (25-100) being discussed here, it's cheaper to use computerized ink-jet printing, in which case the number of colors don't matter.
Another alternative for large posters is silk-screen printing. There may be some silk-screen printer somewhere in the SF area that could get the job done at low cost, but he probably doesn't have a website. The silk-screen printers I could find tended to be very pricey.
When we were discussing this originally, I don't recall there being a number of copies discussed. I assumed there would be at least several hundred copies printed via offset printing, thus I recommended 2-color.