Wend - it is late and I'm lazy about snipping -- I'm glad I was some inspiration that ultimately turned out good :)
I'm selling a few of mine at $25.00, which , after I got Staples to go down to the price I paid through altex for paper and cartridges, gives me about a $10.00 profit... of course,that doesnt count the work I put in but I like doing it. The best compliment I got (aside from two of the guys here ordering them) was that the manager of the Staples where I have the binding done saw them and ordered one. That was sweet. >From all the discussions here it sure seems that making them oneself is the way to go - unless you can sell your project to someone or get an "angel" I left all of Wendy's story in cause i like it and I'm too sleepy to snip anyway... annsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd sort of half been following Ann's thread about making calendars, not > really paying attention. Suddenly, this weekend, the light went on in my > brain and I thought "wouldn't it be a great idea to make a calendar for my > friends". > Remembered that Staples had been mentioned, so went along to check the > price and turnaround. $19.95 (CDN) printed on white cardstock and bound and > it would take a couple of days. Told me to bring the prints in and they'd > make it up. "Great" I thought and trotted off home to sort out some nice > photos. Picked up a couple of packets of HP everyday semi-gloss photo paper > and a new cartridge so I could do a trial to see how it would look. > Back home, I picked out the photos I wanted to use. Discovered that I'd > given away all the prints to my friends so I had to scan all the negatives. > No big deal, I thought. Staples will only be scanning the prints and I had > to scan anyway to make up my trial calendar. > All went well until I hit a strip of 160VC negatives. I just couldn't get a > decent scan from the Minolta Scan dual at all. Another lightbulb went on. > Hmm, Bruce had mentioned vuescan with the minolta (I think). Downloaded a > trial version and re-scanned. Apart from the $40 watermark on the image, it > was perfect! Purchased it straight away. > (already this calendar is becoming expensive!) Brilliant! I wish I'd bought > this software earlier. > Scanned away happily, nice and large to fit letter sized paper, put the > images in order, named them january, february etc. and wrote them all to CD > ready to deliver to Staples. Meanwhile, I printed off the calendar using a > standard template from Word on the HP semi-gloss. It looked good. I was > pretty damn pleased with myself, I can tell you! Then the dog came in from > outside, wet paws and all, ran upstairs and bounced off the bed where I had > placed the completed sheets. I now had a dented and smudged calendar. > "Never mind" I thought to myself, "This is only for practice and I'm > keeping it for myself anyway". > Off I went to Staples with my CD of 13 images - one for each month plus the > front cover. > Lady at Staples takes the details and informs me that they charge $3 for > opening EACH image on the CD whereas if I'd brought the print it would cost > nothing. HUH????? I've done all the work and they want to charge me for it? > An extra $39 on top of a calendar that costs $19?? Insanity! > Quick mental calculation tells me that it's probably still cheaper for me > to have them print up three calendars than do it myself bearing in mind > that a colour cartridge costs $60CDN (ex tax) and paper is about $20-30 a > box so I leave it with them and sulk off. > One of the reasons I wasn't going to do it myself was because the printer I > have is not particularly new and I was worried about fading. Then Paul > (hubby) pointed out that each page only has to last a month! Well, that > convinced me to do it myself. Found a nice double sided semi-gloss/matte > paper from HP and off I went. Rankled by the charge for pulling my files > off a CD I went back to Staples and cancelled the order. I reckon mine are > nicer anyway (though I say so myself...) > > And that's my story. > --- > Wendy Beard > Mosaid Technologies Inc > 11 Hines Rd, Kanata, > Ontario K2K 2X1, Canada
