Printing Types

In industrial printing, there are many methods to process production design. Each product has own methods as well.

You have to create methods for users select when purchasing a product. Product Designer has 4 options of calculation with a quantity range to provide even greater flexibility for your products.

Four calculation methods:

1. Base on the number of resources: Text, Clipart, Images, Uploaded Images, etc...

2. Base on the number of colors: 1 Color, 2 Color, etc. or Full Color.

3. Base on the size of print: A1, A2, ... A6, etc...

4. Fixed price based on quantity.

To manage them, just go to Admin Panel > Printing Types

printing types

In this area, you can see the printing thumbnail, name, description and some filter options on the top as well.

Bulk Actions: You can also edit or remove multiple items at once. Select the items you want to act on using the checkboxes, then select the action you want to take from the Bulk Actions menu and click Action.

  • Delete: Remove selected printing methods.

Add/Edit Printing

To add a new item, just click on menu or button Add New Printing. And select on of item in the list to edit that one.

 

You got screen bellow after that:

edit printing types

There are some fields to put into a method.

  • Printing Title: The name of method which displays the list
  • Printing thumbnail: Upload your own preview thumbnail for this method.
  • Description: Some describe text for this method.
  • Calculate Price: The config for price calculate a price for this method.
  • Active: Enable/Disable shape on front-end.

After filling your content and choosing your calculation method, just press the Save Printing button to store data.

 

How printing cost calculator works

Each printing method is capable of calculating pricing independently from other methods. This feature allows you to price your items differently based on which printing method is used to make the product in question.

You are able to setup pricing variables based on each stage of the process giving you control over the entire process.

Some examples of available calculations:

  • Base cost on the number of resources used in the design: Text, Clipart, Images, Uploaded Image, etc.
  • Base cost on number of colors in the design: 1 Color, 2 Color or full color
  • Base cost on the size of the final print production: A1, A2,…A6
  • Fixed price based on quantity ordered

Of course, all options base on the quantity range which user want to orders.

For example, Their design has 2 colors and they order 7 products. And base price of the product is $10

We have calculated price table as:

quantity / 2 colors

———–

5/0.5

———–

10/0.7

#########################

So formula product price is: (price_base + attritbute_price + resource_price + printing_price )*quantity

price_base: the basic price of the product (without any resource or attributes)

attribute_price: total price of attributes defined

resource_price: the price of clipart and template – in case you set price.

printing_price: the cost after compare with price table base on quantity

 

with example above, total price = ( $10 + 0 + 0 + 0.7) * 7 = $74.9

attribute_price and resource is 0 in this case.

printing_price is 0.7 because quantity in the range of 5 and 10, So it takes the price of 10.

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