Sunday, August 9, 2009

Is the recession over, I ask again?

Here's a photo of part of a job I have in the shop at the moment.

You are looking at a few pallet loads of paper, that already has been printed upon, and die cut (but only "die kissed" so the "waste" paper still needs to be removed, during the cutting process, so the sheets are still rectangular).  The tallest stacks are about 5000 sheets apiece, each sheet has 16 final pages when they're cut out.  So, that's 80,000 pages of paper on a pallet.  The job requires about 5 MILLION final pages...that's a lot o' pallets!

This particular job is 44 pages (40 pages plus cover) and there are 11 different versions.

We have already completed 6 versions that were 36 pages plus cover.

In total, we'll be manufacturing about 130,000 of these catalogs...

I love bio-tech firms...