What factors affect price?
• type of service with numeric usually cheaper than alphanumeric, which is cheaper than 2-way. • additional services like voice mail (with pager notification) or assured delivery. • while most offerings include a base number of pages, over-calls are usually charged on a per-message basis. If you use your pager for automated alerts be careful your monitoring software doesn’t get into a loop. • area of coverage, with the wider cover generally higher cost. • How does nationwide paging work. With regional and nationwide paging, the vendors telephone equipment sends the paging information to a satellite uplink where it is broadcast to land-based transmitters through out the region or nation. These land-based transmitters then broadcast the signal that is received by your pager. • Why can’t I use my 2-way pager (or cell phone) in a hospital but I can use my (1-way) pager? Much of the monitoring equipment in a hospital is sensitive to radio frequency signals and might be adversely affected by
The five (5) items that affect price are: • Type of Garment: High quality shirts such as American Apparel and Organics are more expensive than most basic brands like Gildan and Jerzees. You’ll notice each garment has a corresponding dollar sign ($). Garments are rated with “$” being the most affordable and “$$$” being the priciest (relativley speaking). Our 50/50 (cotton/polyester) garments, although the least expensive, may give you the most bang for your buck. • Color of Garment: White shirts are always the least expensive because they do not go through a dyeing process like a purple, pink, or navy tee does. Finally, heathers, which include all grays, are less expensive than the rest of the color spectrum (excluding white). • Number of Design Locations (Front, Back, Sleeves): A shirt printed with a front design is cheaper than a shirt printed on the front and back. Therefore, the more locations you choose to print on, the more the final product will cost. Also, names and numbers are
