Poster Prints

Does anybody know of a good place to have poster size paper prints made of
photographs that would be suitable to be mounted directly behind glass for
general sale ?

I have a number of photographs that I would like to market this way rather
than sell as limited edition handmade prints. I'm not looking for Lambda
type prints, more paper prints, such as those you might buy in a poster
shop.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Robert

 

I'm not sure if this actually got through last time.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Places like Vision Graphics http://www.visiongraphics.com.au/ and probably a
number of others offer prints made using the large Epson inkjet
printers. Not cheap.

 

You won't get good, colour correct, large format prints that much cheaper
than Lambda.

Lambda in quantity can be reasonable.

Inkjet is readily available and in theory cheaper but not easy to find
someone that gets the process correct for photography-for-sale.

Importantly, although the newer inks are stable, the coated papers that are
needed for higher resolution work remain hygroscopic to some degree making a
behind glass installation problematic. Laminating adds to the $$$$$.


For Lambda try:
Photo King
157 Alison Rd Randwick NSW 2031
Tel: (02) 9399 3511
They do Lambda at competitive prices. "Quantity is King" when it comes to
pricing.

You don't say what size or where you are?

If you are able to keep to a WSIWYG type size a Docucolour might be OK.
(Drafts first though.)

Warmingup

 

Hi Robert,
If you dont want to go too big try www.hydrophoto.tsn.cc for $ 5 -
18x12" prints. More than 20 18"x12" Prints from the same file are $2.50
each plus freight. email me
@nospam-** hope this helps
Paul

 

Why are 18x12" listed at AU$40.00 at the web site?

Rob

 

Hi Rob

Where did you see "AU$40.00"?
The only price list I could find on that site was at
http://www.hydrophoto.tsn.cc/more.html

mm

 

http://www.hydro.tsn.cc/agfa/digitalprinting.html

Cheers,

Rob

 

Thanks Rob

Either I'm missing something obvious, or that site is inconsistent.

mm

 

I don't personally know anyone who has used the service however a some
other items aren't too confidence inspiring either:

"· All images will be retouched."

"· Files should be saved as RGB." no mention of CS preference

Photo King at Randwick (Sydney) are OK but they have communications
issues, I wouldn't have my film processed there after several bad
experiences. http://www.photoking.com.au/

Vision Graphics are good but expensive.
http://www.visiongraphics.com.au/

The Pixel Perfect site reads well, plenty of promises, expensive, I
haven't used them as yet but they do look like they know what they are
selling. http://pixelperfect.com.au/

Photoq were mentioned a few weeks back:
http://www.orderphotosonline.com.au

Cheers,

Rob

 

Hi Rob you are looking at the wrong website. try www.hydrophoto.tsn.cc
$ 40 is what we charge if you walk into our shop.
Email me at #### and I will send you a price list where you
can get 6"x4" prints for 40c. Email me a file and ill print you a free
18"x12" print and you can decide for yourself.
I think thats a very fair offer!!!
ps. same deal goes to Marty Morgan!
yours
Paul Dawson

Why are 18x12" listed at AU$40.00 at the web site?

Rob

 

Where abouts are you located?

 

Hi Paul,

That's a generous offer, I will take you up on it. I would however
suggest that you present your web based pricing policies in a clearer
fashion as it's easily misconstrued as is.

Cheers,

Rob

 

Thanks Rob,
Look forward to the file and thanks for the comments. Yes, on
www.hydrophoto.tsn.cc , we originally had pricing and uploading for all
sizes but we were having huge problems with people uploading. So we
changed the site a bit to just concentrate on 18"x12" photos at $5.00.
I have not worked on the site for a while as we are revamping the site
and changing the name to www.18by12.com.au . This will be done in the
next couple of months. Our shop web page www.hydrophotographics.com.au
states that "corrected" 6"x4" prints are $2.95....and 18"x12" prints
are $40.00. This is still the case as our shop is mainly a freelance
photography, wedding and portrait and school business that also does
processing for the public. (Our 6"x4" print for a wedding is $15.00) .
Anyway, in a small town giving quality to our customers was MEGA
important and when customers came in with their digital files we found
that most people needed too much time spent on them to get their
digital prints to a reasonable quality, so instead of giving crap
prints out , we put our prices up to $ 2.95 per 6"x4" and
"photoshopped" every image. We sent the customers who didnt want
quality to the Kodak & Fuji labs for them to deal with the quality
issues, BUT now, we have still got a reputation for quality and we are
dealing with a more educated customer, so I have reduced the print
price to 40c, but a CD has to be posted to us. Any customer who walks
in the shop still pays $2.95 and that will be going to $5.00 per 6"x4"
on 1st July 2004. Its Ok that people havent heard of us, for the record
though , we were the first in NSW to install the AGFA D-Lab 2. Any
forum readers who want to email me at for the full price
list is welcome, and ill make sure there is some extra freebies thrown
in when you get your first order in. Thanks again Rob. Yours Paul
Dawson