How to Start a Stationery Printing Business
Are you a mom living in the Dallas area? You are probably staying at home now because you have young children and you would want to see them grow up and take care of them yourself. But perhaps your husband’s income is not enough to cover all your needs and mortgages. Then you might want to start a stationery business in Dallas.
There may be commercial printing companies around you, but they possibly can no longer accommodate small orders for personalized stationery. Commercial printers would rather cater to big corporate accounts because it is to taxing for them to handle those small printing jobs.
Now do you think you have the creativity to make customized stationery? Yes, a lot of what is needed in this business creativity. There is really not much capital needed for this as you can just start with some designs and choices for the paper. You can also use your existing desktop or laptop computer in the house. No need to buy for a new one unless you already have so many designs and your computer is getting to slow. If ever, you just might need to invest in a good quality printer. It could be an inkjet printer as long as it prints sharp images. But your best bet would be the laser printer. It can be a little pricey so much so that if you will buy a new one, you will just have to shell out a sizeable chunk of money. Additionally, the toner refill is also quite expensive; however, it takes a long time to get used up.
Anyhow, these are the basic requirements that you will need in starting a personalized stationery business at home. You may already have some of them in your possession.
1. A desktop or laptop computer with graphics design software
2. High-resolution printer, preferably a unit of laser printer
3. Paper Stock (papers and boards of different kinds and grades)
4. Padding Glue, preferably white because when the red glue smears it is quite hard to take off
5. Packaging materials, optional
The packaging materials are optional when you are starting but when there is a special occasion coming like Christmas or Valentine’s Day, you might want to look into this as your value added service or just another product to add to your menu. Personalized stationery that come in special packaging are very nice to give and receive. You can also design and print nice gift cards to attach to these. You will surely get loads of orders when you start marketing your special event stationery in customized packaging. Give bulk discounts to those who will order a lot.
There is always a niche in printing that the large commercial printer cannot infiltrate because of their system and process. Theirs are already for big accounts with a large demand for the number of copies. You may or may not become like those big printing companies in the future, but this stationery business will surely bring in the bucks for you and your growing family. And the good thing is that you don’t need to neglect your children because you can surely do this during your spare time. Just a reminder though: continue to evolve your business to include more and fresher designs so that your customers will have something new to see.
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