Printing is the one trade where a unit price means nothing without the quantity, because most of the cost is setup. A press quoting one flat per-piece rate is either overcharging the small job or losing money on it.
A thousand cards is not ten times a hundred, it is closer to three times. Without a slab table the customer thinks the small job is being gouged and the big job discounted arbitrarily.
Below a break-even quantity digital is cheaper; above it offset is. Presses know the crossover precisely and almost never publish it, so the customer cannot make the cheaper choice.
A screen emits light in RGB and paper reflects it in CMYK. Some screen colours cannot be printed at all. Unstated, this becomes a reprint at somebody's cost every month.
No bleed, RGB, 72 dpi, live fonts. Each of these costs a day, and the deadline the customer is holding you to was set before any of it was checked.
How we build it
Not a feature list — each of these exists because of a specific problem above.
Quantity slab tables with the per-piece rate visible at every slab
The digital-to-offset break-even quantity named per job, so a customer can order fewer or wait and order more
One item deliberately with no slab table — large format, no plate to amortise — which proves the pricing logic is real
A plain statement that CMYK will not match a screen, with a physical proof offered as the remedy
The full pre-press checklist as page content: bleed, safe area, colour mode, resolution, font handling
Die charges disclosed as one time and not re-billed on repeats
Turnaround dated from artwork approval, not from order placement
Unprompted spec corrections, such as pointing a chilled-product customer to BOPP rather than chromo
Complete working storefronts. Open one and use it — the filters, the cart and the product pages are all real.
A thousand cards is not ten times a hundred.
VC-300-MATA printing press site that shows the per-piece cost at every quantity slab, names the digital-to-offset break-even, and states that CMYK will not match your screen.
They already undercut on the headline and recover on finishing. Publishing the slabs makes your pricing legible and moves the comparison to service and quality, where a real press wins.
We would advise against it as a first move. A calculator that cannot see the artwork will misquote finishing and set an expectation you then have to walk back. The slab tables answer the common cases without that risk.
Print files are large and need human checking, and a silently failed upload loses the job. The theme routes enquiries to WhatsApp with the file attached, which is what customers already do.
Review the slab tables on the same cycle as your paper purchasing. They are content, not code, so a rate revision is a short editing job rather than a rebuild.
What you sell and roughly how many products. We come back with which theme fits, a timeline and a price — before you commit to anything.
Or message +91 73389 72295 on WhatsApp. Either reaches the same person.