Why do we not have published pricing on this website?
Numerous reasons, firstly we focus on doing and producing work, not perpetually updating web content. We are a small boutique artisan print house; thus, we don’t have the administrative time to process all the updates we’d need to. However, these are the current significant factors why…
- In a post-Covid world our supply chains are highly volatile and not fully settling down, including paper mills and merchants seeing external pressures placing challenges on the operation of their businesses.
- We all know that the cost of power and fuel has rocketed, this doesn’t just affect us, but also all our suppliers and their supply chains – eg paper mentioned above. In the last 2 years, we have seen our power costs rise by about 65%.
- The recent Ukraine war and other global issues have continued to place pressures on costs, yes like you, we feel the cost of living too.
- We truly treat your print project as a bespoke project. It’s in the clue how we operate a “small boutique artisan print house” totally focussed on your needs, ensuring you get what you need out of your project. Thus bespoke.
- Currently, we have over 100 different paper specifications in our racking, a multitude of large format materials and a wealth of garments we pull on to produce your physical marketing collateral. So, if you work out the permutations of the variables we offer, it’s pretty incredible. They don’t all work on the same costing formulas, hence why we work bespoke.
We always endeavour to be savvy wherever possible, and occasionally source materials through alternative channels to get better rates, like you we endeavour to be careful and responsible.
Above all, how we work is “traditional” being small, artisan, and boutique, however, you chose to describe us. Being traditional, we still use technology to our advantage, we don’t pipeline your job, we actually look at and work on your job. Unlike some of the online-only offerings that just process your print project and pop out the other end.
We’ve always described ourselves in our pricing policy as honest, if it incurs time, then it needs to be applied to the job alongside materials, machine time/costs and human resources. Equally said, if we can serve you effectively through small changes in how we operate, like doing a local drop-off, we will. We will assess the best routes for delivery, whether it is by courier or post.
Ultimately as a niche print service provider, we engage, to deliver our best to meet your needs.