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Paper Categories
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Paper Categories
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Overview
When we introduced Morning Flight in 2005, there was "My Paper" and "Vendor Paper". My paper was paper you kept on hand, vendor paper was paper you bought as needed. The price you paid was based on volume: Less than a carton, full carton, multiple cartons, and so much paper the commission alone could buy the sales rep a weekend in Vegas.
A few weeks later we opened the Morning Flight Forum and quickly discovered that this wasn't how most printers bought paper. At least not here, in the U.S. Here most printers paid the same price no matter how much or how little paper they ordered on any given day. That may not make a whole lot of sense from a marketing perspective, but happily, we don't make the rules. Our job is to make sure Morning Flight can deal with them. Here are the categories we ended up with:
My in-Stock Paper
Any paper you keep on hand, or can get your hands on in a hurry. It's also the only cut-size paper Morning Flight will let you quote in partial reams. Before you designate any item as My in-Stock Paper, ask yourself this:
| 1. | Am I willing to sell sheets in partial reams, and envelopes in partial boxes? |
| 2. | Am I willing to put any leftovers from a job back on a storeroom shelf? |
| 3. | Can I expect either this customer or another customer to order the same envelopes, in the same color, before they glue themselves shut and wrinkle? |
My Buy-as-needed Paper
As the name implies, any paper that you order for a specific job. If the customer orders 600 letterheads, Morning Flight expects you to buy at least 1,000 sheets. The program won't let you buy one-and-a-half reams because nobody will sell you half a ream.
In paid versions, from the Passport Edition on up, you can override that by first designating the paper as Special, then unchecking the "No partial reams" box.
PaperShop Paper
Same as buy-as-needed paper, but with data provided by a vendor. A conversion utility for XPEDX files is on the way.
Special Paper
Another variation of buy-as-needed paper. Special Paper can be ordered from the vendor in any conceivable combination of brackets, priced by weight or per 1,000.
Customer Paper
Not really a category, but we do have to allow for customers walking in with their own paper. Usually with the exact number of sheets they want to walk out with, but that's another subject. Morning Flight will exclude the cost of the paper, but will raise the run price a little to compensate for the extra handling.
To specify customer paper, click the quantity button.
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