Hey folks, I recently purchased a new printer that is capable of making 13 x 19 inch prints like some of you may have seen me offer at the conventions and I've got a couple questions I want to pose to y'all. When you guys are interested in buying prints does the larger size appeal to you? 13x19 sounds big, but until you actually see it and hold it it's sometimes hard to appreciate. That's well over twice the size of a normal letter-sized piece of paper that you'll typically buy a print on, which is really impressive to see in person. 8.5 x 11 inch letter-sized paper is pretty great for looking at at arms length, but 13 x 19 is something you can appreciate on your wall.

Now the thing is that when people are shopping at a convention the issue with 13 x 19 inch prints is: what do you DO with it during that in-between time where you have to transport it home? I ask this because I'm curious whether that issue is enough of a consideration that even if you WANTED to buy a print so large you would decide against it because of the hassle? Ultimately though is this big of a print just more than you would want? That kind of question relates to what people want to do with their prints. Personally I have a lot of prints but I put them all in a binder that rests on my bookshelf so I can easily store them and look at them when I want.

I'm in the midst of preparing for Anthrocon and this new printer has me really excited over what I can offer and this whole post is just me considering how much I want to invest in big paper and larger ink reserves so that I can have enough prints on hand... and then how to advertise that I've got these in the first place.

Hm... I suppose another possibility here is that I could make giant prints of the commissions I've done for people, -both future and past commissions. I take great care to make high quality scans of everything and so the prints I could make would look pretty awesome... and HUGE.