The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria (NY) has or had something like this. It is/was a "make your own quickie movie with yourself in it". I think it came out as a sheet that you could cut up and make into a flip book. Obviously not a high quality thing, but great fun - the flow of data to point of purchase seems similar.
Museum Shop 718.784.4520 ext. 202 shop at movingimage.us Suzanne ++++++++++++ Suzanne Quigley art & artifact services www.suzannequigley.com 718 875 1697 917 676 9039 (cell) squigle at panix.com On Apr 18, 2009, at 3:00 PM, mcn-l-request at mcn.edu wrote: > 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/ )
