If youre going to use a third party for prints, I would recommend you NOT direct ship the prints, you will need to quality control them yourself before giving to a client.
----------------- J.C.O'Connell [email protected] ----------------- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Walt Gilbert Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 3:57 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Advice & recommendations on selling prints On 3/24/2012 2:32 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Walt Gilbert > >> In all honesty, it's because I'm as broke as the Ten Commandments. I'm >> in a bit of a catch-22 where I can't afford to do my own prints unless I >> sell enough prints to be able to do them. It's going to be hand-to-mouth >> for the foreseeable future, so I'm forced to do things in the least >> affordable way in order to have any hope of ever being able to do it >> affordably. >> >> But, if I ever do get to that point, I'll be sure to look into those >> options. But, for the time being, it's beyond my grasp until I can claw >> my way within reach. >> >> -- Walt > > If you've got a Costco nearby, you might look into a membership. Their > photo-lab is reasonably good. I use them pretty much for anything > 12x18 or smaller. > > As far as pricing, the school solution where I went to school was a > print sells for at least 4 to 7 times your cost, otherwise you're > losing money. > Thanks, John. The pricing is what I'm most curious about. I figure I can go with the low end of the scale starting out, and limit my prints to a fairly small size for the time being. I doubt I'll do many prints that are very much larger than 8x10 for now. If I can order from an online printing service with a good price/quality reputation and have them shipped directly to the buyer, I'll be happy. I'm not quite ready to start doing gallery-quality prints, but I'd like to be able to offer nice photos for people who may be interested in buying a print of any of my photos that they happen to see. It all boils down to the fact that I'm going to have to crawl before I can walk. It's going to take a little time, but I'm OK with that. Thanks again for the input! -- Walt -- 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.
