BTW, Don, I forgot to thank you for that e-card. Nice photo.
graywolf
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Don Williams wrote:
Hi Godfrey,
I sent out 450 Christmas greetings -- with a picture (*ist D) as an
attachment to all the names in my address book -- a couple of days
ago. Total cost $0 unless the on-line time is taken into consideration
when it might be about .01 cent. However there is another cost (that
might be higher) -- some people* don't welcome greetings from
strangers or vague acquaintances. However, I did add to the message a
sentence to the effect that if a recipient wanted to be removed from
the list all he or she had to do was say so. Only one has so far
requested this. But I have removed 63 bad addresses from the list. So
I've cleaned my address book, sent cards to friends and family, many
business people (including the Pentax agents in Finland) and some
enemies. I shall never know the real cost I suppose.
* I also don't know what my Hindu, Moslem, Jewish or Buddhist (there
may be others) friends think about this, but only one has mentioned
his faith. If I were to send them all greetings at the appropriate
times I'd spend weeks, all year round, sorting them all out. And I
don't know the right dates anyway.
"Who the hell is this idiot sending me a Christmas Card?"
Don
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Look at an HP PhotoSmart 8450 printer. I bought a PhotoSmart 7960 a
year ago for about $185. It's produced hundreds of excellent B&W and
color prints to date. It's best used with HP's own glossy Premium
Plus paper, that way you get the best rendering and an very good
archival ink/paper mix, according to the Wilhelm folks anyway. The HP
consumables are not cheap, but they are good quality. I've also used
it with Epson papers, both glossy and matte, but it's difficult to
know how well such prints will hold up.
I just finished printing 100 holiday cards. I used this printer and
HP 6x8" Note Card paper/envelope packs. To do the cards: the paper
cost me $8 per 30 card pack, the ink consumed one and a half
grayscale cartridges, call it $40. So my cards for 2005 cost me $0.66
apiece, with envelopes, fully printed ... ready to sign and mail.
For calendars, well, normally I want to print something larger than
8.5x11 inch. Can't say what it would cost to do a run of them.
"Online photo competition" ... I don't recall seeing anything like that.
Godfrey
On Dec 9, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Adam McKenty wrote:
Pentaxians,
In your experience, which is a less expensive way to produce cards,
prints, calendars and such: buy ink and photo paper and use an
inkjet printer; or get them made at a lab/print shop? I would have
thought the do-it-yourself method cheaper, but then I ran across Dan
Heller's most excellent web page (www.danheller.com,
www.danheller.com/biz-postcards), and he thinks otherwise. (I'd take
his word for it, but that his math is bad. In the same page he bases
a lengthy cautionary tale on the following calculation: 1.5 x 100 =
1,500.)
Which brings me to my second question: what inkjet, if any, can make
good prints, take paper up to 8.5 inches wide, and be had for around
$200? What good/bad experiences have you had with various printers?
It's a rather broad subject, I know, but any suggestions or comments
would be appreciated.
I'm making photo calendars to foist on all my relatives as Christmas
gifts, and I'm wondering how to get least broke in the process. In
the future, my brother Francis and I plan to peddle some similar
products to the mobs of summer tourists that pour through the local
craft market (in exchange for a little dough, of course).
Cheers,
Adam
PS: Francis is wondering if any of you received his last post (about
an online photo competition), since he didn't receive any replies
(whimper).
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