Hi John, We have a successful POD program here. We have a Kiosk in the museum store and also one that is placed in a temporary satellite store that people have to walk through as they exit our temporary exhibition. That kiosk offers images of artwork that can be seen in the exhibition. So in effect it's a targeted audience we're selling to. We have examples of the POD product framed and up on the store walls so people can see what they're buying. Art Group is the company that helped us with this and that handles fulfillment. Fulfillment takes place off-site which means low impact on staff.
-- Susan Grinols Director Photo Services and Imaging Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Ph. 415.750.3602 Fx. 415.750.2679 On 4/17/09 11:38 AM, "John Bedard" <jbedard at artsmia.org> 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/ ) > _______________________________________________ > 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/
