A successful brand/marketing or design project involves quality decisions, work and execution throughout the process. A great concept, beautifully designed that is not executed in the manner that it was supposed to spoils the good work that was performed during the initial phases. Successfully producing a piece, whether a business card, identity system, corporate brochure or annual brochure involves attention to many details.

Dreambox Creative offers Print Management as a fee for service to you to ensure that the final product is of superior quality, your financial investment is protected, and we can be proud of our work.

Here is a list of typical tasks that we will perform:

• put together a spec sheet and contact qualified potential vendors to produce the work
• answer any technical questions vendors have in order to accurately estimate the work
• compare proposals and offer recommendations based on quality, cost and deliverables
• prepare print or production-ready files for the vendor
• handle file transfer
• examine contract proofs for accuracy, size, possible Postcript errors, rule-outs, color breaks, overprints, crossovers
• approve contract proofs or request revised proofs
• examine paper and ink options
• presschecks: drive to print/production facility when job runs (whether day or night), examine ink drawdowns, press sheets, rule-outs, color density and color consistency, ghosting, hickies or scratches, backups
• review final product before shipping and/or pickup & delivery to Client

Our typical fee for Print Management is 15% of the printing cost, or depending on the size of the project, location of the printer and the number of press signatures we may negotiate a specific amount. Industry standard is 15-25%.

We understand this is an expense in addition to design and printing cost for our Clients, and we don’t particularly consider it a lucrative service for us, but we always recommend our Clients use it, for their protection and control quality throughout the manufacturing process. The design of a piece is important and we put our heart into it. The execution of it can affirm or ruin the quality we envision. Imagine 6,000 brochures or press kits that printed incorrectly…

We hope you choose to use it!

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