Help pricing a LARGE graphic

[mwdesigncreate 0]

Need help figuring out a price for the following:

Plotter-cut on reflective white vinyl... size of the entire graphic is 80" x 24", entire graphic will also be pre-masked for the customer to apply. No actual printing being done, just plotter cutting.

I know reflective white vinyl is REALLY expensive!!!

Any help/advice on pricing would be a HUGE help to me, so again, thank you all!

[jfought 120]

my min on reflective is 10.00 per sq ft printed or not.

[stetson5331 80]

my min on reflective is 10.00 per sq ft printed or not.

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[mars 45]

For what it's worth (I don't have and never cut any reflective vinyl) - but using the cost of material that came preset in Estimate software here is what I came up with.

I plugged the size and material - using reflective (flexible)and price comes out 273.37 - substituting reflective (engineering) makes it 209.88.

Time on the job estimated at 1 1/2 hrs (I put in an assemble in shop charge of 20 minutes) - I am old and slow - but I like to get paid for the time I expect a job to take - use your judgment for how long you think it will take you to mask and package the finished job to adjust the price.

HTH, Mike

[racinboy30 9]

The problem here is vinyl has doubled in price w/ shipping attached. I used to be able to ship 1 roll for less then $30. Now it costs for the same thing about $50. I priced that at $166.85 RTA (x2 that would be 333.70)without installation. Laying down that kind a vinyl that big is going to be ruff on you if you have never done it before.

I just did an ambulance with 2 layer reflective and one layer standard, for $695.66 and that took a full day to assemble and apply. I was low bidder on that and offered a 2 year warranty on any installation defects.

[mars 45]

The problem here is vinyl has doubled in price w/ shipping attached. I used to be able to ship 1 roll for less then $30. Now it costs for the same thing about $50. I priced that at $166.85 RTA (x2 that would be 333.70)without installation. Laying down that kind a vinyl that big is going to be ruff on you if you have never done it before.

I just did an ambulance with 2 layer reflective and one layer standard, for $695.66 and that took a full day to assemble and apply. I was low bidder on that and offered a 2 year warranty on any installation defects.

Good points! I did just use the inbuilt cost figures from when I installed the program - so it isn't current cost for me - which I would have spent the time to verify and update if I were actually quoting a job. I really only use a few types of substrates and vinyls and those are the only ones I have adjusted for cost calculations.

I agree installs are time consuming - Glad to have your input -

-Mike