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I discovered that the economics of having things printed are surprising. It costs about the same to print one copy as it does to print a thousand copies. Nearly all the expense is in the setup, the marginal cost of paper is pretty small.

The trick is to correctly guess how many you'll need.



Digital print has changed this balance a bit. With offset printing tech there are huge one-time costs


That's true of most mfg in general. If you ever want say a custom badge for a car, it'll cost you as much for a handful as 5-10,000 of them.




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