From: Charles Robinson
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
Most any mini-lab should be able to turn out good quality 8x12 prints.
It would just depend on whether they understand how to take control over
the printer or are stuck with just the automated pre-sets.
I used to get orders for hundreds of 8x10 prints from the local Hockey
team - the color glossies the players signed to give away to the fans.
I could have done 8x12s if that's what they'd wanted, but I don't think
management would have been flexible enough to accept such an order.
oPhoto appears to have been absorbed by Kodak Gallery. I don't think
Kodak Gallery is flexible enough to accept an order for 8x12; couldn't
find it at Shutterfly either - only 8x10s.
I'm with Flickr for online photos, and I couldn't even figure out how to
order 8x10 or 8x12 prints (in just a few seconds) - lots of links to
making products, imprinting a Capital One Visa, tiny prints or getting
Blurb books, but no obvious way to order normal size prints.
If you have to provide the prints, I'd check with CostCo first, see if
they can actually make the prints. If so, the price should be pretty good.
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