Printing, Labels & Industrial Converting worked example

Artwork Change Cost at 110% billable revision share: a worked example

Push billable revision share up to 110% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when a customer requests a graphics change mid-program and you need to quote the prepress and plate impact.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Prepress rework hours: 6 hr (unchanged)
  • Loaded prepress labor rate: 65 $ / hr (unchanged)
  • Billable revision share: 110 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 100)
  • New plate or cylinder cost: 420 $ (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Artwork change cost = prepress hours × loaded prepress rate × billable revision share + new plate or cylinder cost) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 849 $ for total artwork change cost, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 142 $ / piece for artwork change cost per unit.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 429 $ for variable artwork change cost.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 420 $ for fixed artwork change cost adder.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where billable revision share sits at 100% and the headline result is 810 $, this scenario comes in 4.81% above the baseline at 849 $.
  • It computes the total cost of an artwork revision by adding billable prepress labor to any new plate or cylinder tooling, then divides by prepress hours to show cost per hour. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Total artwork change cost: 849 $ (headline result)
  • Artwork change cost per unit: 142 $ / piece
  • Variable artwork change cost: 429 $
  • Fixed artwork change cost adder: 420 $

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Artwork Change Cost calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.