Printing in Brighton can cost anything from a few pounds for a small document or poster job to hundreds for larger runs, banners or specialist finishes. At Ganda, business cards start from £17.50, flyers from £16, posters from £5 and document printing from £0.30 per sheet. The final price depends mainly on quantity, paper choice, finishes and turnaround time — and in some cases, ordering more or allowing a few extra days can actually make the job cheaper.
If you’re looking for printing in Brighton, the slightly annoying answer to “how much does printing cost?” is: it depends what you’re printing.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t give you a useful answer.
At the time of writing, some typical starting prices at Ganda are:
| Print job | Prices from |
|---|---|
| Business cards | £17.50 |
| Document printing | £0.30 per sheet |
| Flyers and leaflets | £16.00 |
| Posters | £5.00 |
| Banners | £29.00 |
| Roller banners | £54.50 |
Stickers are harder to give a useful single starting price for, because the cost changes considerably depending on the size, quantity, material and whether you want them on sheets, rolls or individually cut.
Those prices are useful as a starting point, but they don't tell the whole story.
We've been working in print for 18 years, and one thing we've learnt is that the specification, quantity and deadline can sometimes have a bigger effect on the final price than the actual amount of paper you're buying.
In fact, occasionally ordering more print will cost you less.
Here's why.
There are four things we tend to look at first when somebody asks us for a print price:
Changing the paper can make quite a big difference to the price.
For example, at the moment we charge:
If they're being handed out to promote an event, the 170gsm version may be absolutely fine.
If they're sitting on a counter representing a premium business, perhaps we'd recommend something heavier.
Neither is automatically the “right” choice.
One of the things we'd always rather know is what you're using the print for, rather than simply being told you want “1,000 A6 flyers”.
That gives us a much better chance of recommending something suitable.
Print is one of those products where ordering twice as much doesn't normally mean paying twice as much.
There are setup costs involved in producing any print job, so as the quantity increases, the cost per item generally drops.
That means ordering too few can be a false economy.
We regularly see businesses order a small quantity because they're trying to keep the initial cost down, then come back shortly afterwards and order exactly the same thing again.
In many cases, they'd have spent less overall by ordering more the first time.
It gets even more interesting when the quantity changes the way we produce the job.
This catches people out.
At the time of writing:
2,000 A6 flyers on 300gsm stock, produced same day: £112.50
But:
2,500 A6 flyers on the same 300gsm stock, with a 3–5 day lead time: £94.50
So you get 500 more flyers and pay £18 less.
That isn't a typo.
The difference is how they're printed.
The 2,000 same-day flyers are digitally printed. Digital printing has a relatively low setup cost, which makes it fantastic for short runs and fast turnaround, but the cost per sheet is higher.
Give us a few days and the larger quantity can be litho batch printed instead. Litho has more setup involved, but once the press is running the cost per item becomes much lower.
It's a good example of why we always recommend telling your printer your deadline rather than simply choosing the fastest option available.
If you need them today, that's fine.
If you don't need them until next week, you might as well keep the extra £18.
Lamination, specialist stocks and other finishes can completely change how a printed item feels.
They can also completely change the price.
Sometimes they're worth every penny.
Sometimes they're unnecessary.
A beautifully finished business card for somebody selling a high-end service might make sense. The card is part of their first impression.
Putting an expensive finish on 5,000 flyers that are going to be handed out outside a club at 11pm might not be such a great use of the marketing budget.
We're not big believers in adding finishes just because they're available.
The question should always be: does it make the finished product better for what you're actually going to use it for?
If not, we'd rather tell you to save the money.
This is probably the easiest print cost to avoid.
Leaving print until the last minute limits the ways it can be produced.
If you've got three, four or five days available, we can often use slower production methods that give you more options and sometimes considerably lower prices.
If your event starts this evening, those options disappear.
That doesn't mean we can't help.
A lot of Ganda's customers are event promoters, venues, bars and restaurants, so we're very used to the words:
“Any chance we can get these today?”
Quite often, the answer is yes.
We've regularly turned print around in a couple of hours because a promoter has suddenly got an opportunity to advertise at another event or needs something for a last-minute campaign.
But if you know you need something next Friday, ordering it this Friday rather than next Friday morning will almost always give you more choice.
Sometimes.
We're not going to pretend otherwise.
There are enormous online print companies producing huge volumes of print every day. On the right product, at the right quantity, they can offer very low prices.
But online isn't automatically cheaper, and the headline price isn't always the whole cost.
There are also things you give up with some of the cheapest online services.
Nobody may look at your artwork before it goes into production.
Nobody necessarily knows what you're trying to achieve.
And if you've accidentally ordered completely the wrong product, you may simply receive a beautifully printed box containing 2,000 completely unsuitable things.
That's one of the areas where we think a good local printer earns its keep.
If you know exactly what you need, great. Tell us the specification and we'll price it.
If you don't, tell us as much as you can about what you're trying to achieve.
We can give you some options.
You don't need to understand print terminology.
If you know exactly what you want — brilliant.
“2,500 A6, double-sided, 300gsm silk flyers required next Thursday” makes our job very easy.
But don't worry if your enquiry is more like:
“We're opening a new cocktail bar next month and need some menus that aren't going to get destroyed within the first weekend.”
That's useful too.
In fact, sometimes it's more useful.
Ideally tell us:
From there, we can normally give you a few sensible options.
We love helping small businesses, and we're certainly not going to tell somebody to spend £300 when a £100 product will do exactly the same job.
But we'd also be wary of automatically buying the cheapest possible version of everything.
The question is what that print says about you.
If you're ordering something that will be handed to a potential customer, displayed in your venue or sitting on a restaurant table, it's representing your business.
Sometimes fewer items on a better stock are a much better investment than buying thousands of something cheap just because the cost per unit looked good.
There's no point having 5,000 flyers sitting in a box for the next three years.
And there's even less point having 5,000 flyers you don't really like handing to people because they feel cheap.
We've worked in and around hospitality and events for years, so this is an area where we often find ourselves talking customers out of the thing they originally asked for.
A new bar or restaurant might have seen a particular menu product online and decided that's what they need.
Sometimes it is.
Other times we know from experience that the material won't stand up to the environment, the finish is going to mark too easily, or they're going to end up replacing the whole lot far sooner than expected.
We'll say so.
We'd much rather recommend something suitable than sell somebody a product we know they're going to regret ordering.
The same applies in the other direction. If we think you're spending money on a premium option you don't need, we'll tell you that too.
It definitely can.
Most of our products are produced at our Brighton factory, which means local customers aren't waiting for print to be shipped halfway across the country before they can use it.
If something is particularly urgent, you can collect it from us as soon as it's ready.
Collection is free.
We also currently offer local BN postcode delivery for £6.50, as well as mainland UK courier delivery for £10.
We deliberately keep those delivery charges separate rather than hiding them by increasing the price of every product.
For Brighton businesses, being able to collect can make a surprisingly big difference when time is tight.
It depends on the product, but some jobs can be produced extremely quickly.
One of the more extreme jobs we've handled was for a corporate travel event organiser.
They needed fully personalised print for their guests, but the final guest names weren't available until the day before the event.
We were still able to produce all of the personalised material to the standard they needed and have it delivered to their office the following morning.
That's obviously not the way we'd recommend planning every print job.
But events don't always cooperate with ideal production schedules.
It's also why, if something is urgent and you can't see what you need on our website, it's worth calling or emailing us.
There are plenty of things we can produce that aren't listed online, and there are sometimes production options we can use when a standard online order isn't going to meet the deadline.
Not necessarily.
It's another assumption we hear fairly regularly.
Our current delivery charges are:
If you're nearby and trying to keep the cost down, collecting your order costs nothing.
If you're ordering from elsewhere in the UK, we use a set mainland courier rate for standard deliveries rather than changing it according to the value of your order.
For small jobs, you could be talking about a few pounds.
For a normal run of business cards or flyers, perhaps tens of pounds.
For larger quantities, banners, specialist finishing, signage or a complete event print package, the cost can move into hundreds or considerably more.
There isn't one meaningful “Brighton printing price”.
What matters is getting the right combination of:
quantity + stock + finish + production method + turnaround + delivery
And we'd add one more thing:
suitability.
A print job isn't good value simply because it was cheap.
Once it's out in the world, it represents your business, event or organisation. Getting the specification right matters just as much as shaving a few pounds off the invoice.
Ganda has been based in Brighton and working in print for 18 years, specialising in digital print and working extensively with small businesses, hospitality and events.
You can order standard print online, but you absolutely don't have to work out every paper weight, finish and production method yourself.
If you know exactly what you want, send us the specification.
If you don't, tell us what you're trying to do, how many you think you need and when you need it.
We'll happily talk through the options, including the cheaper ones.
Or come and see us in Brighton, have a look at some samples and talk it through over a coffee.
We make a pretty decent coffee too.
Can't find what you need?
If your spec is awkward, custom, or just not listed yet, send us the details and we will help.
Printing costs in Brighton vary depending on the product, quantity, paper choice, finish and turnaround time. At Ganda, simple jobs can start from just a few pounds, while larger print runs, banners, signage or specialist finishes can cost considerably more. As a guide, business cards start from £17.50, flyers from £16 and posters from £5
The biggest factors are usually quantity, stock or paper choice, finishes such as lamination, and how quickly the job is needed. Short runs tend to have a higher cost per item, while larger quantities can be much cheaper per unit. Allowing a few extra days can also reduce the price because different production methods become available.
Often, yes. Printing has setup costs, so the price per item usually falls as the quantity increases. In some cases, a larger order can even cost less overall if it can be produced using a more economical printing method. For example, 2,500 A6 flyers on 300gsm stock can cost less than 2,000 of the same flyers when the larger run is allowed a longer production time.
No. Large online printers can be cheaper for some products, but not always. It is also worth comparing what is included. A local printer can offer artwork checking, advice, faster turnaround, collection, local delivery and help choosing the right specification. The cheapest headline price is not always the best value if the finished product is unsuitable.
Yes, depending on the product. Ganda produces most products in its Brighton factory and regularly handles urgent work, including flyers, posters, event print and other short-run jobs. If something is needed quickly or is not listed on the website, it is worth calling or emailing because there may be faster production options available.
By Charlie Langridge