FMP: Budgeting & Materials

Even though I have mentioned that I am going to design a few more cards, I have decided to print off those that are completed just in case I run out of time. After all my brief was just to create the wedding invitation, so whatever else is just a bonus.
I first printed off using the printers at uni, having to pay just for the paper which was 0.60p per sheet of matte paper. The print outs came out perfectly, but I wanted to print out at Staples to see what their quality was like and if it was better.

Printing for uni
I rang Staples first to see what price range their paper was before I went into the shop, as I wasn't sure whether or not they printed out on matte paper.
Unfortunately they don't print out on envelopes so I would have to figure out a way to get a design onto an envelope elsewhere.

Matte paper (90 gsm & 100 gsm) - A4

Colour - 56p
B&W - 15p

There is an additional charge of £3 to open up the files so I'll be paying at least £3.71 for just two pieces of paper. Now I find this to be ridiculously expensive, so I wondered whether or not it'll be easier if I printed off more than two pieces and do, say, 10.

If I do ten colour prints on A4 then it'll be £5.60 + £3 = 8.60. This is still expensive but doesn't sound as expensive as it would do for just printing out two sheets of A4 paper.

100gsm would be too thin for my designs, so instead I looked at 160gsm which came to 60p per sheet. So 7x0.60 = £4.20 to print out two invitations (one double sided and another with separate sides), the Save the Date, the RSVP, and the Place Card. Then it was an additional £3 so £4.20 + £3 = £7.20