Printing Press ?

      Well, it's beginning to look like Image of the Mind Studios may be installing a Printing Press into the operation.    The Gnomes of New Hope project requires a substantial amount of printing in order to fulfill the objectives.  Not only are there seven books in the collection, but there is also the Libretto that needs to be provided to the production personnel and the music score provided to the orchestra. That in itself is huge, larger than the illustrated Storybooks or the Libretto.

   What it ends up getting down to is this; in order to get the per page cost down to an acceptable budgeted amount, having a press in the shop is one option that needs serious evaluation.  The difference is that; unless there is sufficient sales to move an entire production run (of the Illustrated Storybook), the cost of an on-demand printing press appears to outweighs the cost of inventory on the shelf.  Inventory goes into raw materials that could be used for another project, as opposed to finished publications awaiting distribution.

   Of course supplies and personnel come into play as well.  So this is under consideration. I may wait on this action until the Board of Directors is fully in place and functioning properly. But really, inventorying published goods (pages) produced by a vendor, at the level required to bring the price down, ties up resources that could be used elsewhere and be applied to setting up in-house capabilities.  

   There's also the option of partnering with both printing and distribution operations, which needs to be pursued.

Morer Later

AG