Packaging Price Settings

The rates the packaging calculator uses for board, print, laminate, die-cut, glue and forming costs. These retire the hardcoded JS constants in the calc template — edit here and every quote re-runs against the new numbers on next calc. Board default is the fallback only used when the picked stock has no cost of its own (until Mega stocks land, every stock hits this fallback).

Board (fallback)

Used when the picked stock has no cost_per_unit. Later this is replaced by Mega's per-stock rate; the fallback stays for unknowns.

Default $ / m²

Brand margins (qty matrix)

Markup % over cost per brand at each qty rung. For qty q, the calc reads the largest rung ≤ q. Typical "reducing margin" ladder: higher qty ⇒ lower %. 0% ⇒ price equals raw cost, i.e. not sellable.

Qty rungs (comma-separated, sorted ascending on save) Add or remove rungs here — the matrix below re-renders after save.

Brand \ From qty	1+	100+	500+	1000+	2500+	5000+
Regular (Studio Q)
TOP
Island Print
Envelope World

Print

One row per method. Per-sheet rates are per colour split (4/0 = one side, 4/1 = second side single-colour, 4/4 = full four-colour both sides). Wastage is the extra sheets planned per run.

Method	Setup $	$/sheet 4/0	$/sheet 4/1	$/sheet 4/4	Wastage sheets
Offset
Digital
Flexo

Laminate

One row per lam type. Applied per printed sheet area.

Type	Setup $	$ / m²
None
Gloss
Matt
Softtouch

Die-cutting

Tooling cost scales with die perimeter (bigger box = pricier die) but never drops below the minimum. Per-sheet is the run rate.

Tooling $ per metre of perimeter Minimum tooling $ Setup $ $ / sheet

Glue & Forming

Glue cost fires per glue-seam per unit (seam count comes from the style catalogue). Forming (assembly) fires once per part, per unit.

Glue setup $ Glue $ per unit per seam Form setup $ Form $ per unit

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