Please respond to the list - this is something we have talked about for a while but have never really gotten off the ground.
Carolyn Rissanen Registrar, Natural Sciences Oakland Museum of California 510-238-3885 www.museumca.org -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Bedard Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:39 AM To: mcn LISTSERV Subject: [MCN-L] Print on Demand Pilot Questions Our Museum Shop wants to do a pilot project on Print on Demand for prints (not posters) of works in our collection. They would probably start with 30-50 images that they currently use on notecards that they sell. The thought is to start with a low cost pilot to test the market. The current thinking is to have a computer set up in the store on which a customer can select an image and print a order for a print. (The order only needs to include the name of the customer and the name of the print selected.) The customer would bring the order to the checkout point and pay for the print. The print would be produced at a later time on one of our high quality color printers and mailed to the customer. I would appreciate hearing from anyone with experience with this type of project, or anyone who knows of free or inexpensive software that could be used on the computer in the store to select an image and print the order. John R. Bedard | Director of Information Systems Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404 612-870-3268 | JBedard at artsmia.org | www.artsmia.org ( http://www.artsmia.org/ ) _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
