It is absolutely true that your department or small business, can possibly buy the pieces to do what RBR Productions do, without factoring in the true costs’ involved in completing the project. An in house project will work best for companies that have employees sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, or for someone to come through the door. RBR will print to disc, avoiding this expense, as well as curling of label stock through temperature and humidity changes in your environment.
$20,000 a year employee, cost per hour additional, $13.33, or $0.2221 per package 1 a minute per assembled piece.
$25,000 a year employee, cost per hour additional, $16.62, or $0.272 per package 1 a minute per assembled piece.
$30,000 a year employee, cost per hour additional, $19.95, or $0.3325per package 1 a minute per assembled piece.
$35,000 a year employee, cost per hour additional, $23.27, or $0.38.79 per package 1 a minute per assembled piece.
(Figures include .33 additional for taxes, based on 50 weeks, 40 hours per week.) Double or Triple the cost per set, if insert into case is also part of your package. Labor, as with most cost structures, can become a dominant part of the costs’.
RBR made the decision to automate early, to allow us to keep prices down, with quality & continuity retained. Even with short run projects, quality remains the same from the first copy to the last copy.