Estimating

Total Quality Management

• · Accounting.
• · Customer Service – TQM = Total Quality Management.
• · Management.

• 1. Develop a plan for production.
• 2. Assign cost associated

• · Us Artwork provided?
• · How is it supplied? Email, flash drive, CD, upload, download?
• · Preflight what is needed
• - Proofing
• - Checking errors
• · Bleed· Stock· Ink color
• · What kind of proof – color matching
• · Turn Around time

· Finishing – speed time. Embossing, perfecting

· Out Source – cannot have in shop, lost control of delivery time

· Other – delivery instructions

· After all done then assign cost.

In house

· Know what you are capable of doing in house.

Outsource

· Embossing

· Bindery – folding

· Graphic design

· Silk-screening

• · Timelines
• · Cost
• · Other
• · Then assigning cost BHR (Budget Hourly Rate)
• · Material need

• Production time and sequences:
• a) Number of effect cost and production.
• · Vacation.
• · Holiday.
• · Overtime – multiple shifts.
• · Coffee break.
• · Union Contract Parameters.

• · Should understand output of equipment.
• · Print and product and equipment.
• · Output speeds.
• · Production methods.