Hi Godfrey,
I sent out 450 Christmas greetings --
with a picture (*ist D) as an attachment
to all the names in my address book -- a
couple of days ago. Total cost $0 unless
the on-line time is taken into
consideration when it might be about .01
cent. However there is another cost
(that might be higher) -- some people*
don't welcome greetings from strangers
or vague acquaintances. However, I did
add to the message a sentence to the
effect that if a recipient wanted to be
removed from the list all he or she had
to do was say so. Only one has so far
requested this. But I have removed 63
bad addresses from the list. So I've
cleaned my address book, sent cards to
friends and family, many business people
(including the Pentax agents in Finland)
and some enemies. I shall never know the
real cost I suppose.
* I also don't know what my Hindu,
Moslem, Jewish or Buddhist (there may be
others) friends think about this, but
only one has mentioned his faith. If I
were to send them all greetings at the
appropriate times I'd spend weeks, all
year round, sorting them all out. And I
don't know the right dates anyway.
"Who the hell is this idiot sending me a
Christmas Card?"
Don
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Look at an HP PhotoSmart 8450 printer. I bought a PhotoSmart 7960 a year
ago for about $185. It's produced hundreds of excellent B&W and color
prints to date. It's best used with HP's own glossy Premium Plus paper,
that way you get the best rendering and an very good archival ink/paper
mix, according to the Wilhelm folks anyway. The HP consumables are not
cheap, but they are good quality. I've also used it with Epson papers,
both glossy and matte, but it's difficult to know how well such prints
will hold up.
I just finished printing 100 holiday cards. I used this printer and HP
6x8" Note Card paper/envelope packs. To do the cards: the paper cost me
$8 per 30 card pack, the ink consumed one and a half grayscale
cartridges, call it $40. So my cards for 2005 cost me $0.66 apiece, with
envelopes, fully printed ... ready to sign and mail.
For calendars, well, normally I want to print something larger than
8.5x11 inch. Can't say what it would cost to do a run of them.
"Online photo competition" ... I don't recall seeing anything like that.
Godfrey
On Dec 9, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Adam McKenty wrote:
Pentaxians,
In your experience, which is a less expensive way to produce cards,
prints, calendars and such: buy ink and photo paper and use an inkjet
printer; or get them made at a lab/print shop? I would have thought
the do-it-yourself method cheaper, but then I ran across Dan Heller's
most excellent web page (www.danheller.com,
www.danheller.com/biz-postcards), and he thinks otherwise. (I'd take
his word for it, but that his math is bad. In the same page he bases a
lengthy cautionary tale on the following calculation: 1.5 x 100 = 1,500.)
Which brings me to my second question: what inkjet, if any, can make
good prints, take paper up to 8.5 inches wide, and be had for around
$200? What good/bad experiences have you had with various printers?
It's a rather broad subject, I know, but any suggestions or comments
would be appreciated.
I'm making photo calendars to foist on all my relatives as Christmas
gifts, and I'm wondering how to get least broke in the process. In the
future, my brother Francis and I plan to peddle some similar products
to the mobs of summer tourists that pour through the local craft
market (in exchange for a little dough, of course).
Cheers,
Adam
PS: Francis is wondering if any of you received his last post (about
an online photo competition), since he didn't receive any replies
(whimper).
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