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Digital Art to Physical Art (Please Read - I need opinions!)
13 years ago
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So, I've got a wide format (13" x 19") professional photo printer, and I've been considering offering a service either to artists or work digitally or to users who have digital art but would like a professional quality print of their art rather than just a file. I can certainly print these up, but it would cost a bit of money, so I wanted to put this out here to see if anyone had any thoughts on this idea. Mind you, if I'm printing art that someone else commissioned of their character, it would be limited to one copy for personal use only. I am not about to start selling a bunch of prints that someone doesn't have reproduction rights to! I just figure a lot of folks would like professional quality prints of digital work, but I know that you can't just go to Kinkos and start printing off a bunch of furry porn (easily).
Anyway, shipping with delivery confirmation is $2.80 to the US. The rigid envelopes are about $1 a piece and the between the photo paper (about 50¢/page) and the enormous cost of professional ink, I figure it would cost me at least $5 just to do it in supplies.
So, for an 8.5" x 11" sized print, I would charge $10 shipped anywhere in the United States and $5/additional print included in the same mailer.
This is on glossy, archival photo paper with archival quality, 6-color hi-definition dye ink. This ink is certified to last 98 years under glass or 400 years in proper storage, so you will be getting a full quality, vivid color piece. This could also done for badges and such, and for paper 13" wide up to 44" long, so there are options, as well, though obviously, pricing would be different. Same goes for international shipping...
For artists, I can either ship directly to their customers (and they may charge whatever they like for this service) or if they rather, they can have me mail them batches of art that they can remail. I will, of course, provide the tracking number to both artist and customer.
Again, for commissioners, it would be limited to one print of their art work for personal use only. I'm considering requiring artists' permission on this, but that complicates things. Do I try to track down every artist, who may or may not be active, may or may not be on FA, etc.? I don't really feel that it's my responsibility, so I may put a bit in the TOS on this that any work submitted to me by a customer must have permission from the artist for me to make a single print for personal use.
Artists out there, I want to know, first, would you be interested in using a service like this from me and, second, if your commissioner wanted a single, printed copy of their art for personal use, would you object to it?
P.S.: If anyone out there reading this would be kind enough to post a link to this journal, I would really appreciate it. I can't offer you anything for it, but I'd love to get as many opinions as possible!
Anyway, shipping with delivery confirmation is $2.80 to the US. The rigid envelopes are about $1 a piece and the between the photo paper (about 50¢/page) and the enormous cost of professional ink, I figure it would cost me at least $5 just to do it in supplies.
So, for an 8.5" x 11" sized print, I would charge $10 shipped anywhere in the United States and $5/additional print included in the same mailer.
This is on glossy, archival photo paper with archival quality, 6-color hi-definition dye ink. This ink is certified to last 98 years under glass or 400 years in proper storage, so you will be getting a full quality, vivid color piece. This could also done for badges and such, and for paper 13" wide up to 44" long, so there are options, as well, though obviously, pricing would be different. Same goes for international shipping...
For artists, I can either ship directly to their customers (and they may charge whatever they like for this service) or if they rather, they can have me mail them batches of art that they can remail. I will, of course, provide the tracking number to both artist and customer.
Again, for commissioners, it would be limited to one print of their art work for personal use only. I'm considering requiring artists' permission on this, but that complicates things. Do I try to track down every artist, who may or may not be active, may or may not be on FA, etc.? I don't really feel that it's my responsibility, so I may put a bit in the TOS on this that any work submitted to me by a customer must have permission from the artist for me to make a single print for personal use.
Artists out there, I want to know, first, would you be interested in using a service like this from me and, second, if your commissioner wanted a single, printed copy of their art for personal use, would you object to it?
P.S.: If anyone out there reading this would be kind enough to post a link to this journal, I would really appreciate it. I can't offer you anything for it, but I'd love to get as many opinions as possible!
A: I have no idea about sizes
B: I am living in Austria, so itmght be hard to ship my art to myself.
But it sounds like an interesting idea, which may work for those actually wanting some physical Art
B. And the main idea is that, you as an artist take a commission, the commissioner wants a printed copy, you send me the original file, I print it off and mail it out to them. You can charge them whatever you like for the physical copy. Of course, if you wanted your own art sent to you in Austria, I could certainly do it, but shipping would be more. (Looks like shipping to Austria is about $3 according to the USPS, so it wouldn't be a whole lot more.)
I hope that works out for you as possible income