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A1 posters… best way to ship?
Maybe someone can help out with this…
We’ve done around 1,200 A1 posters for one of our clients which need posting in batches of between 30-50 to various branches around the country (the client pays extra for all this so it’s fine).
Whenever we do small runs of posters we use postal tubes or we fashion a sort of envelope using flatpacked cardboard boxes. However with these being in such volume and A1, what would be the best way to get them shipped out to so many places?
I can’t roll 50 at time into a tube as they’re just too bulky to fit in
I could roll maybe 5-8 posters into one tube, and do that several times, but that’s an awful lot of tubes and time.Does anyone know of any suppliers of extra wide (diameter) postal tubes?
Or have any other ideas how to get them shipped out?How do you guys at the big print shops do it?!
Any advice would be warmly received!
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6 Replies
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you can buy cardboard in 8×4 sheets, I did a bit of sub work for a company who sent out lots of 1mm pvc signs and we made all our boxed to suit from flat sheet, easy peasy!
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Antalis sell "2 piece Corrugated Wrap & Pad" 8×4 item No: 47024 thats what i would use….. :thumbsup:
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We’ve had our supplier create maltese crosses for us. A little expensive initially but provides a robust and very quick way of sending out large quantities of print.
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We normally roll them into a media core and then wrap it in brown paper to ensure the ends are closed over. Alternatively if they wont roll that tight you can roll them using a strip of application tape to hold then use a 50m Roll Media box that vinyl or like comes in, very easy to cut down one end to make a shorter box if you don’t have one the right size.
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quote Kevin Busby:We normally roll them into a media core and then wrap it in brown paper to ensure the ends are closed over. Alternatively if they wont roll that tight you can roll them using a strip of application tape to hold then use a 50m Roll Media box that vinyl or like comes in, very easy to cut down one end to make a shorter box if you don’t have one the right size.Same here.
If you can’t roll them tight enough just roll a smaller amount and put them in the box and allow to unravel then follow the process until you get the required number in the box.
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Gotteleib packaging, 5 in postal tubes with caps. Check the spelling the name though.
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