Mpix (mpix.com) are pros. If you ask them whether they can do it, and how much it would cost, you should be able to trust their answer, the quality of the work, and their ability to do it in whatever time they promise.
I have no personal experience with such large orders, though. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Charles Robinson<[email protected]> wrote: > At the Twins Days festival I attended last weekend, I did the official > "group shots" on Saturday and Sunday. People order prints of this picture, > and then the people who run the festival pack the ordered shots (usually a > pair of prints for either Saturday or Sunday, sometimes a pair of each) into > an envelope and mail them off. > > When I asked them approximately how many prints they end up having to get, > they said that the Sat/Sun counts usually add up to about 2,000 prints > total. > > Where is the BEST place to work with that can handle an order like: "I'd > like 1700 8x12 prints of this image, and 500 8x12s of that one" without > choking? And of course the image has to look good, and should be on some > nice real photo paper. The dude who ran the prints last year, it looks like > he used a laser printer or something to print to some heavy stock. It was > shiny, kinda muddy in the details, low-resolution, and overall it just plain > stunk. > > If anyone has experience/recommendations (either for or against!) I'd like > to hear what you think. My first thought is something like oPhoto, > Snapfish, or similar might be the way to go - but the sheer number of prints > required makes me wonder if there isn't someplace that specializes in more > "bulk" work that would be more appropriate. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [email protected] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
