Quoting Signs & Large-Format Print: Areas, Roll Media Yield, Ink & Laminate Use, Board Sheets, Machine & Finishing Time, Installation and Job Margins

What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

• Turn sizes in millimetres into square metres and square feet, multiply by the quantities and apply a billing policy that rounds every piece up and charges a minimum area per piece.
• Fit posters across two roll widths with INT, round the rows up, compute the roll length and media area used and compare the waste percentage of both rolls.
• Count how many rigid sign panels fit on a standard sheet upright and rotated, take the better layout with MAX, round the sheets up and measure the offcut share of every job.
• Look up the ink use of each quality mode, turn millilitres into ink cost, add laminate with an allowance and media, and compare the consumable cost per square metre of five jobs.
• Turn printed square metres into print hours with the speed of each quality mode, add a set-up per job, price the machine time and check how much of a shift the five jobs fill.
• Compute the perimeter of every banner, count the eyelets side by side, turn trimming, hemming and eyelets into minutes per piece and price the finishing of the whole order.
• Estimate on-site hours from area and surface with a minimum per job, add return travel time and mileage, charge access equipment by started hire day and total the installation cost of five jobs.
• Add up the cost of five jobs, price them with separate markups for production and installation and a minimum charge, compute the margin on price and chart cost against price per job.