Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10)American School of Correspondence
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Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10)
American School of Correspondence
Accounting; Business; Commerce
On each envelope, the copy number should be entered, and if the copy
takes several numbers, all should be entered. Copy bearing the title
"Your Chance" may be set in three sizes--full page, No. 640; half page,
No. 641; and quarter page, No. 645; all proofs will be filed in one
envelope and the three numbers will be entered on the outside.
The register of numbers and the file of proofs provide for the
identification of any copy; if the title of any piece of copy is
wanted, the number being known, reference to the register gives it; or
if the title is known, reference to the file gives the number.
PRINTING ORDERS AND TRACERS
Great care is necessary in issuing and following up orders for
printing; every detail must be watched closely if satisfactory results
are to be secured. In the majority of offices the advertising manager,
or a man under him, attends to all details of ordering printing. Large
concerns find that it pays to employ an experienced man for this work
alone. To a concern whose printing bills amount to several hundred
dollars a month, a man who will give close attention to every detail
of the work, from seeing that he gets the stock specified to checking
bills for overcharges, can make his services worth a good salary.
In printing, as in everything else, the personality of the house
should stand out--a typographical style should be established. This is
accomplished much more quickly if every detail of the printing is in
the hands of one man.
There are concerns in which publicity and sales work must be subdivided
to such an extent that the sales manager has all printed matter
prepared under his direct supervision; while the advertising manager
is responsible for the preparation and placing of the copy. In one
such concern, which has come under the writer's observation, copy
for printing is turned over to a man entirely outside of the sales
division. The theory is that the outside man will watch the interest
of the house, in the matter of price, more closely than the man who
prepares, and perhaps is to use, the copy.
This theory may have some foundation in certain quarters; probably
there are some otherwise competent advertising men who are occasionally
outwitted by the printer; but it is also true that the buyer of
printing, who places his orders on the basis of price alone, frequently
loses more in quality than he saves in cost. The man who is to use
a booklet or folder is really the best judge of its worth--what he
can _afford_ to pay for the kind of work he wants; he knows best
its possible value as a revenue producer. He should be competent to
supervise the placing of the orders, but without exception _all_
printing orders should be placed by the same man.
No matter by whom placed, the printing order should specify every
detail; or if it is not on the order blank, there should be a
specification sheet. The specifications would be something like those
shown in the order form, Fig. 9.
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