Showing posts with label printing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label printing. Show all posts

Monday, May 25, 2009

Packaging

Hours after I visited the Sonny & Coco Market I still felt unwell and flat. My creativity and motivation just wasn't kicking in, yes I was a little worried. However today I bounced back. I had the urge to start trying different ways of presenting just one of my products.
A while ago I had a client who wanted a shopping list designed in their favourite colours, that represents them. I designed the A5 shopping list to their liking, now how to present it? I researched the costs involved into producing note pads, you know the ones, with the gum. Well the cost involved just getting 20 to 50 made at a local printer (I obtained a few quotes) was just a little too much for my liking. Just to get 50 pads printed 50 sheets per pad was $7.18 ea, total $359. At the moment this isn't what I wanted. So back to the drawing board. I can understand why people end up printing their items in China.

To jump forward I have the list printed and now for the packing. Packing is another kettle of fish, I researched a few paths and looked at the items that Margaret at Konstant Kaos also suggested. At present I decided to make my own packing, later down the track I hope to use professional packaging. So today I did a little experimenting with different ways to present the product also produced some logo dots and address labels. The photos speak for themselves. So I would be interested what people think, leave a comment. Would love to know what you think.


Monday, March 30, 2009

Researching Printers

Well when one starts a business, one must research. So today I visited a few printers in my local area. It was interesting what type of responses I received from the printers. It ranged from, 'can I get this customer inquiry through quickly' to 'would you like more information, can I help you with something else'?

I have discussed with people in the past about printing products in China. I have decided that I will print as much as possible here in Australia. Yes it may cost more, but like many others I want jobs to stay here in Australia and I want to support Australian workers.

The next bit of researching will be the process of wrapping paper. One can never have to much beautiful wrapping paper.