What if I bring you the paper?

What if I bring you the paper?

We get this question quite often. And there are two answers depending on why you are asking....

The typical answer.... "No thank you, our machines are rather finicky when it comes to what they eat." Or the variant of "We have them on special diets and can't feed them anything not approved by their doctors."

When someone is asking to supply paper in attempt to reduce the cost of a project we still give them the answer above but for a different reason. If you think about it for a moment you will understand too.... the paper is usually the smallest cost of a project.

Lets take a typical color copy project, say 100 flyers. That project will cost $29 to complete based on our current price book and that price includes the paper, the toner, the machine, and staff/shop time. The paper is about 1 cent of the cost of each flyer, the machine is about 23 cents, and the remaining 5 cents covers the cost of the shop (staff, electricity, etc...).

In other words, thank you for the offer of paper but our machines are on strict diets and are only allowed to eat certain papers or they will get sick.