Ken Waller wrote on 9/11/18 5:09 PM:
I've had a number of my images done by Bay Photo put on metal plates and
I think that medium has a lot going for it.
There is also the nice detail that they can be more easily cleaned than
many other surfaces.
On the wall they float about 1/2" from the wall and have a modern feel
to them. With the conventional print in a frame you have the added task
of picking a mat, frame and glass which must add to the image or you
stand the chance of a potential buyer liking the image but not the
frame, mat etc.
Plus I think your profit margin can be higher since you're not paying
for those frames, mats etc.
Metal prints are not only a lot cheaper than frames and mounting, when
photos are sold in the frames both the photo and the frame need to work
with where the potential customer wants to hang them. When conventional
prints are sold without a frame, then the customer doesn't want to deal
with the cost and bother of getting them framed.
I normally wait for Bay Photo's special sales on the metal prints for
added savings.
The Bay Roes software is impressively bad. Not as bad as Apple
"photos", but it has a tremendous amount of suck. I ended up spacing
out and forgetting to make sure that two of my prints were ordered in
vertical format. I was able to make them work for my party. I saw two
possibilities to fix them. I could drill a new hole in the back plate,
or I could cut the old one off and remount it. As it turns out, on
Monday I was working at Bay (vendor, not employee, installing some
network cable). At one point I took my prints up to the metal prints
section to ask them how hard it would be to remove and remount the
backing, and they just reprinted them for me.
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