Help appreciated

[Happiertimes]

I work in the public sector, my dept runs training courses (resus, first aid, life support etc). At the end of training everyone who attends is issued a certificate to prove attendance. There are over 2k staff per annumn who attend each training session.

My question - how do we cut printing costs of these certs? Already moved to black and white printing & on paper (rather than card)- further cuts are needed.

Handwriting certs will be too labour intensive, e-certs are not legally viable (due to the fact signatures can be cut and paste), PDF docs are not practical due to the fact we would be unable to type the name of the attendee onto the document.

I've hit a brick wall.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

HT

[SnerpGoodWord]

So let me get this straight - black and white printing on plain paper costs about $0.03 per page and you've got a couple thousand pages to print. So we're talking something like $60 total. And this is the big issue that's flummoxing your government bureaucracy despite presumably having multiple employees making 10's of thousands of dollars per year?

Maybe I'm not grasping the problem, because otherwise y'all need a visit from the budgeting competency fairy

[Mcoroklo]

Ah ;-) I guess there is a higher quality requirement than just a random piece of paper. I guess some special certificate paper and print is used?

Anyway, the best answer is researching prices. If you don't want to do it yourself, you could try finding a Virtual Assistant through sites like Odesk.

[Clint Cora]

Can you decrease their size and print two per standard size sheet?