Recommendation & Solution

At this time, you are paying (4) Four Employees $14.00/hr x 8 hours a day with a 5 day work week.
Cost / Day = 4 x $112.00 = $448.00
Cost / Week = $448.00 x 5 = *$2,240.00 for (4) Four Employees*

Rather than waste money on more people, an option to consider for a New & Growing Company is to Lease.

Benefits of Leasing are you pay the Leasing Company 1st and last months deposits only to acquire the Equipment and it's 100% tax deductible. You still deal directly through Cutting Edge Coding, Inc for inks, parts, and service. Always go with the Buy Out Option so you own the Equipment after your lease is over.

The (4) Four Year Lease with the Buy Out Option works out to cost approx $250.00/month for every $10K of Capital Equipment.

Therefore, let's say you automate with a Vibration Free Conveyor, CoPilot Case Code Printer, a Streamline 5 Date Code Printer, and a Taper.

For Ball Park Purposes - all of the above costs say $39,000.

You say, wow I can't afford that ...

However, since you will be automating, now you will only need 2x Employees This means you would save 1/2 the Salary costs or approx $1,120.00/week noted above

To Lease $39,000 in Capital Equipment with a (4) Four Year Lease and Buy Out Option would cost approx $975.00/Month

You would obtain Savings in (2) Two Areas

1. With your same Cash Flow - Salary of 2x Employees = $1,120.00 x 4 weeks per month = $4,480.00 LESS Lease Payment = $4,480.00 - $975.00 = *$3,505.00 Additional Cash Flow by Leasing*

2. Secondly you would save about 90% in consumable Costs The approx cost for a 4"x6" Paper Label and Ribbon is about 5 Cents The cost to print directly on the Case with the CoPilot Printer will be approx 1/2 of a Penny

Bonus... and you will save by running more efficiently, the less number of times you touch the carton, the more profit you are making.