News.
Why
use a Print Broker?
In short, you want the benefit of the
competitiveness of the open market, but the convenience of
dealing with one organisation. There are
a large number of print suppliers based in South-East
Queensland. All of these different suppliers have different
capacities and areas of specialisation based on what equipment
and experience they have (e.g. A2 4 Colour Press, A3 2 Colour
Press etc...) It would take a very long time for an end
client or a graphic designer acting on behalf of a client to get
quotes from every one of these suppliers for a
particular project. Over time we have collated an enormous amount of
print quote data based on what
specific printing press each supplier
has.
This means we are
able to quickly and easily find the best prices the open market has
to offer. We know in advance which suppliers are going
to be most competitive for specific jobs. We wouldn't ask a supplier
with an A1 Press to print 1000 A3 Posters, as this would be more
economical to print with a supplier who has an A3 Press.
Paradigm does not deal with ALL the suppliers in the region,
just a selection of suppliers we know we can rely on from a
quality point of view. So we are providing two key aspects
of the formula for printing:
best
price, best quality.
The third part of the formula is
turnaround. Because we are a conduit for our many clients who are
end clients, graphic designers or other advertising/media
businesses, we are sending our suppliers an enormous amount of
work. Because of this we have the respect of our suppliers who
will respond to our request for an urgent turnaround of a job. This is because they know
we are a large, regular client. We don't spring fast turnaround
on our suppliers all the time as we have to have a realistic
relationship, however in most cases we can usually deliver goods within tight deadline if
required.
From the point of view of graphic designers or
advertising/media businesses we are like an outsourced
employee who is looking after the print management and
procurement process for them, but at a reduced cost because we are
working at contract rates. We are only employed when work is
required. This makes us a perfect solution for small to medium
sized graphics industry businesses who want to focus on what they do
best which is creative design and
concepts.
Printing
Offshore.
Paradigm now offers clients cheaper prices for
printing larger projects in Korea and Taiwan. If your
project can afford a 4-6 week turnaround your organisation can
save up to 40% by printing offshore. We recently saved one of
our clients $3000 on a 60pp A4 magazine which took a total of 5
weeks to produce from delivery of artwork to delivery
of goods in Australia.
Typically offshore printing is a good solution
for clients who have planned the timeline of their project well
and can factor in the 4-6 week turnaround time involved with
shipping the goods to Australia either from Taiwan or South
Korea. Just as there is a threshold in price between printing
digitally and offset, there is also a threshold where printing
offshore is not as cheap as in Australia. Feel free to contact us to
discuss the nature of your project if you think that it
qualifies for being suitable to print
offshore.
Streamlining.
A new
software installation now makes our search for the best printing
price for you even more thorough. We have been using the new
software for over a month now and it has helped to streamline the
process of tracking down the best-prices for a range of printing
needs.
We also use
the software to actively track the median prices for a wide range of
printing. This means we are able to quickly scan the average
price for most types of printing work. In many cases we already have
an exact match for a new quote request on our system. The benefit
of this is two-fold. We put less pressure on
our
suppliers having to produce new quotes and we can give our clients faster quote
turnaround times.
Indigo Digital Printing.
If you haven't heard of the ground breaking
Digital Print solution that is otherwise known as Indigo
from Hewlett- Packard, then you need to talk to us
soon. The Indigo is an amazing solution for short run
printing. Using Ink based technology the Indigo has
the same quality as offset printing, but the economy for delivering
on short run projects. Paradigm Print Media has just
secured some of the best Indigo print prices in
South-East Queensland, so contact us today for a quotation
on your job. Short runs no longer need to be a hassle when
you want the quality of
offset and lower pricing. Indigo printing also offers the ability to
print using variable data. Therefore you could have one magazine
for the Grade 12 graduation class with each student's individual
portrait printed on the front cover. You can also individualise
direct mail to your clients. Contact us today
to ask about what can be achieved using variable data
printing.
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In short, you want the benefit of the
competitiveness of the open market, but the convenience
of dealing with one organisation. There are a large
number of print suppliers based in
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