Printing digital artwork?

[NlSS4N]

I've had some people requesting hardcopy prints of some of my artwork at school and online lately, and I'm wondering what the easiest/most cost-effective way to do this was.

I made a couple of prints from Cafepress.com and this place called DigitalRoom before, but Cafepress' profit isn't worth making the posters (and shipping it out =\) while DigitalRoom upped their minimum order requirement to 100 prints. I don't think I'm popular enough to sell 100 prints at $22 each.. yet XD. Besides all that, there's always this size restriction I have to go about...and frankly, none of my pictures are standard-print size (nor do I want them cropped. Killing my picture size kills my inner child hardcore).

DeviantArt's printing service is just a no.

So, am I being too picky about this? I mean, I suppose I can go look around for some local printing shop here, but I think it might either be 1. expensive, or 2. too inconvenient to get to when I need to.

My media is all digital, so scanning isn't really an issue. As for the # of prints per image, I'm definitely not going to reach the 100-print-minimum... more like 5-6 prints max >_o.

[Oni140]

If you're wanting to do actual prints (on paper) of your pictures, Office Depot has a great printing service. It's a general office-based store, so I'm sure you can find one where you live...

They can do digital prints however many you need anywhere from $0.22-around 1.50 each, depending on the paper. The pictures may be lighter or darker, depending on the colors that are displayed on your monitor. They'll take one to supposedly several hundred, as one time, someone was making 2000 prints of something x_X

I think it's one of the best printing services I've had, but if based on your last few comments, it is a bit of a hassle to go when you really need them, but this is all I have to offer I'm afraid ^_^;

[helix eternal]

Hey NlSS4N,
You might want to try Kinko's if you have one close by. I'm pretty sure they can do prints of just about anything, and then you could sell back for whatever price you want. I go in there to get resume's and whatnot printed off, and I've seen big printers that could be used for poster sized prints and such. They also have different styles of paper you could print on and everything. I'm pretty sure they don't do canvas printing though, so if you're wanting to do that you'll have to look elsewhere.

By the way, you really need to do a complimentary drawing of Guy to go along with Thomas from Daft Punk so you can sell them as a set XD

[NlSS4N]

Originally Posted by Oni140

If you're wanting to do actual prints (on paper) of your pictures, Office Depot has a great printing service. It's a general office-based store, so I'm sure you can find one where you live...

They can do digital prints however many you need anywhere from $0.22-around 1.50 each, depending on the paper. The pictures may be lighter or darker, depending on the colors that are displayed on your monitor. They'll take one to supposedly several hundred, as one time, someone was making 2000 prints of something x_X

I think it's one of the best printing services I've had, but if based on your last few comments, it is a bit of a hassle to go when you really need them, but this is all I have to offer I'm afraid ^_^;

Mmmm... Office Depot sounds promising! Thank you!

Originally Posted by helix eternal

By the way, you really need to do a complimentary drawing of Guy to go along with Thomas from Daft Punk so you can sell them as a set XD

^^ Hey dude! Actually, I did do a complimentary drawing of Guy Check it!