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Originally Posted by Chung Dha
If you want to order from china you have to make big orders always over 1000 per order. But most starting companies I've got never got money to pay for that amount. Most starting companies rather go for cheap than normal.
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Yeah - that's what I was saying - 10k or so to make it worthwhile. But let's say they're .25/piece. That's still only $2500. And 10,000 business cards would be enough for a small - mediumbusiness. Printing in China does have it's risks (dies/art are stolen A LOT) but if you get with a reputable company that you trust, that's rarely an issue. I also find that the production quality has VASTLY improved with Chinese product over the last 5 years or so.
My client that I referred to earlier sends between 4 - 10 to press a week. (when I worked there fulltime, there were weeks we'd send 20+ projects to press per week) All of it is printed/manufactured in China. The work is generally very good. I've seen entire children's board books with internal sliding parts and specialty printing (foil/lenticular/glitter) printed for less than 50 cents per book (they HAVE to be in the dollar market - the book RETAILS for only 2 dollars) It's truly amazing what they can do. I have a feeling that, in the next few years, the cost will be rising drastically as we in the US are becoming more dependent on Asian manufacturing (mainly due to demand for better pricing from the large chain stores)...but that's a whole other thread.
That said - I believe you should support your LOCAL print shop whenever possible...except when it comes to die cut geared business cards.
