I decided that I would duplex print on cheaply sourced paper to cut down my printing costs (this costed me a total of £2.60 to do including paper and the cost to print 12 A4 sides in the print room, because this was so cheap, I decided that I could splash out on a speciality print process like foiling for the cover. Stock and print of the cover costed me a further £1.20 to source and produce. The pound spent on the screen is a one off payment and the foil is costing me nothing, because I'm using off- cuts. This means my total spending for the production 10 books (not including this one) will come to £28.00. If i sell all ten at £5.00 each, Ive made a proft of £23.00. Which suits me fine. There will have been a cheaper way to do this, but I think I ended up working pretty smart here. I'm very glad I didnt order in any paper or inks because for the two it would have cost me £130.00. which would have been ridiculous because i would have had to price my books about £10.00 more to make my money back.
I can rest easy knowing I have all the screens prepared and my indesign file packaged and ready to go. I will be amending the file one more final time before my large print run next week, but as it stands - apart from a few typos, the book is ready to be printed. 1 Mock up is done, (which took me about 3 hours to produce form print to binding and cropping, but Ill document that in more detail in another post.
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