Design for Print: Commercial Costings

Newspaper club prices:

Expensive for Traditional printing which I would suspect to be lithography? / Digital printing is used for the other newspapers which is a whole load lot cheaper.

Print in bulk it's going to be very expensive.

Obviously commercial print is going to cost a lot, but picking the most appropriate and cost effective method to print with. 

Each method and process obviously all have their pros and cons and knowing them is vital if you want to pick a process to print with especially if you’re going to be paying for it.

For example: Screen printing is very time consuming, with each colour having to take up a separate screen as well as it having to be done by hand. But once you’ve done the setup printing off lots of copies is incredibly fast and easy. 

While something like lithography is incredibly fast and cheap, unlike digital printing which is slow but high quality. 

When you do commercial print, you’re not just going to be paying for the print, if you were to say, stapled book, you will be paying for the whole process in creating it, not just for the print.

So that would make it more expensive then just a leaflet using the same printing method.