Services/Pricing
Pricing on Tracts, Booklets, Paperback Books – Printing we do for you on a Printing Press, or Full Color Laser Printer
Note: We now have a 2017 heavy duty Canon ImagePress C750 color laser printer that does paper sizes up to 13″ x 19″. We also can make 24″ wide by 59″ long posters. The minimum price for a color tract on this laser printer (two to a letter size sheet) is now 10 cents due to the high cost of repairs, consumables, and replaceable parts.
HIS Print Media Ministries, designs and prints tracts, booklets, and paperback books. Our Primary emphasis is Christian Evangelism. All incoming money goes into a ministry account. There are no paid employees. We are volunteering our labor and years of printing experience. If you like passing out tracts, and you want to make them yourself using the documents posted on this website, that is OK with us. You will quickly find out that buying supplies/consumables for your inkjet or color laser printer is quite expensive. We have a professional laser printer that does near photo quality, and a printing press that does two colors with exact color registration, and extensive bindery equipment, in our Print Shop. Quantities of 2000 or less are done on the laser printer. Minimum quantity printing press jobs are 5,000+ for one color, and 10,000+ for two color tracts. Shipping for small jobs is by USPS Priority flat rate (domestic and international) envelopes and boxes. Larger orders are shipped by USPS (United States Postal Service), or customers preference . We do not pay for the shipping. The orange hyper-linked text after each category listed below is a link to a sample tract. (Place mouse cursor over and left click on the orange text after the document title. This takes you to the webpage on our site where the sample is located. Scroll on that page to locate the title of the sample. To view the document, click on download next to the thumbnail image of the sample document’s cover). Although the links below are for English language tracts, we also have Spanish and other languages. We can print any of the documents posted on this website, or a custom document you send us. We can even help you design your own document or testimony tract (see Jerry Leonard Testimony http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=332). You can contact us by E-mail: info@tracts4u.com; or, by cell phone: 805-452-5150 (David). Tracts are printed on white paper. Colored paper is special order, and a higher price.
1. One color ink, four tracts per letter size sheet. $2 per 100. How To Win http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=75
2. One color ink, two per letter size sheet. $3 per 100. What Fills the Void? http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=750
3. Two colors of ink, two tracts per letter size sheet. $3 per 100. Run on Printing press. 10,000 minimum for custom contact address . Why John 3:16? http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=43
4. Two colors of ink, two tracts per legal size sheet, run on printing press. $4.50 per 100 Who is Jesus? http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=397
5. Full color cards (glossy surface on front), 4 per letter size sheet, on color laser printer. $10 per 100
You Are Loved! http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=707
6. Full color, two per letter size sheet, on color laser printer. $10 per 100 (plain paper). $12+ per 100 (32lb glossy paper). $15 per 100 (coated one side card stock, no fold) Are You Playing With Satan? http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=111, or Who…? http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=166
7. Full color, four per letter size sheet (32lb glossy paper). $8 per 100. $5 per 100 (plain paper)
How to Live Forever – There is Only One Way http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=118
8. Full color on both sides, tri-fold or bi-fold, one per letter size sheet (32lb. glossy paper) $50 per 100.
Prayer Changes Everything http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=57,
Messiah’s Identity Revealed http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=172
Booklet Tracts (stapled)
Small 2 3/4” tall x 4 1/8” wide, 16 pages, 2 color, on printing press. $6 per 100 in large quantities. Know Your Future (English, Spanish, French) http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=678
Letter half, color cover, plain paper, 12 pages. $50 per 100. Seven Things God Wants Us to Know http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=212
Booklets (letter half, legal half, tabloid half)
Letter half, coated one side card stock full color cover, plain paper content with full color graphics/pictures. $5 each. Note: booklet maker machine can do about 64 pages + cover. Thicker booklets require more handwork. My Miracle Stories http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=557
Paperback Books – Glossy coated one side card stock full color bleed to the edges cover. 100 pages to about 600 pages (letter half size), 300 pages in letter size.
Letter-half, 150-200 pages, color cover, black text and gray scale pictures on content pages. $7+ each.
Letter size, color pictures throughout, up to 439 pages. My free E-book Christian Evangelism Printing http://www.tracts4u.com/blog1/?p=432 (a 12mb file size download), printed as a limited edition comb bind, with two DVDs in a pouch inside the back cover, cost me $29 per book to print!
Note: Companies like Xulon and Tate Publishing may charge $500 -899 for the first copy
Shipping (within the USA) by USPS Flat Rate Priority Boxes (Prices October 2020). A customs form is required. 6 – 10 day delivery.
Medium size $15.05 – holds approximately 1,700 5.5” x 4.25” (folded size)tracts, or 3,400 2.75” x 4.25” (folded size) tracts
Large size $21.10 – holds Approximately 3,000 5.5” x 4.25” (folded size) tracts, or 6,000 2.75” x 4.25” (folded size) tracts
Letter envelope $7.75 (padded letter $8.40), Legal envelope $8.05 (holds up to 1,200 small tracts)
For domestic use, Media Rate is cheapest, but is limited to Books, Booklets, and CDs
Note: International Flat rate priority Envelope and box prices vary by region. Max weight is 4 lbs for the envelope and 20 lbs for boxes. I figured that, for a shipment weight of 40 pounds or more, International Priority becomes cheaper than Flat Rate Priority, and it still goes by Air Mail to the country.Delivery time is 6 – 10 days. A customs for is required. We have had 3 Boxes sent to Brazil returned. Evidently there is an exact procedure for filling out the customs form so the recipient (who may be a poor street Evangelist) isn’t required to pay an import fee.
Airmail M Bag – Books and booklets. Starts at $51.55 for 11 pounds. Maximum weight is 66 pounds. Customs form required
The price of shipping tracts to a foreign country is more than the cost of our printing the tracts. This is why we encourage Churches and Evangelists in other countries to print their own tracts.
In my opinion, one should take an additional suitcase of tracts to a foreign country when traveling by Airplane. The next best choice for larger quantities of tracts (up to 66 pounds) is Airmail M Bag.