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Printing Very Large Panoramic Prints (75 Inches Wide)
Chockstone
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As a landscape photographer doing wide (3x1) panoramic photos I'm interested to know if SmugMug has any intensions of offering larger printing sizes in the near future?
Ideally I'd like to offer my customers these sizes:
50 inches wide (127 cm x 42 cm)
60 inches wide (152 cm x 51 cm)
75 inches wide (190 cm x 63 cm)
An email from SmugMug arrived today showing a new printer "Loxley" had joined the team. Beside this news was photo of a man inspecting a print that was clearly several metres wide. I got excited, but sadly upon investigation of Loxley's products on SmugMug they top out at 40 inches. Unless that promotional image is misleading, they are able to print much bigger. Is there any reason why they haven't offerred bigger sizes?
Does anyone know of any alternate services such as SmugMug that do offer larger prints. I'm based in Australia, where Red Bubble lives. I'm using them as well but they top out at 30 inches.
Looking around at other Australian printers I found these guys: http://www.geniusprinting.com.au who will print on paper or canvas up to 84 inches, but (as far as I can tell), they don't offer the full service like SmugMug. ie, they don't host my images are provide an interface so my customers can order on-line without any involvement from me. Instead I'd need to manually handle each customers order, uploading images to the printing company with each order. The profit margins are too small for that kind of time consuming involvement on my part.
I've had prints made at 75 inches from my local (old school, not on-line) printer and they look amazing framed up and hanging on walls. My work does sell at those sizes if I do all the leg work myself to get the print made. The frequency of requests for bigger prints from my customers is increasing. What I need is a cost effective SmugMug like solution that doesn't involve me.
Does anyone have a suggestion?
Ideally I'd like to offer my customers these sizes:
50 inches wide (127 cm x 42 cm)
60 inches wide (152 cm x 51 cm)
75 inches wide (190 cm x 63 cm)
An email from SmugMug arrived today showing a new printer "Loxley" had joined the team. Beside this news was photo of a man inspecting a print that was clearly several metres wide. I got excited, but sadly upon investigation of Loxley's products on SmugMug they top out at 40 inches. Unless that promotional image is misleading, they are able to print much bigger. Is there any reason why they haven't offerred bigger sizes?
Does anyone know of any alternate services such as SmugMug that do offer larger prints. I'm based in Australia, where Red Bubble lives. I'm using them as well but they top out at 30 inches.
Looking around at other Australian printers I found these guys: http://www.geniusprinting.com.au who will print on paper or canvas up to 84 inches, but (as far as I can tell), they don't offer the full service like SmugMug. ie, they don't host my images are provide an interface so my customers can order on-line without any involvement from me. Instead I'd need to manually handle each customers order, uploading images to the printing company with each order. The profit margins are too small for that kind of time consuming involvement on my part.
I've had prints made at 75 inches from my local (old school, not on-line) printer and they look amazing framed up and hanging on walls. My work does sell at those sizes if I do all the leg work myself to get the print made. The frequency of requests for bigger prints from my customers is increasing. What I need is a cost effective SmugMug like solution that doesn't involve me.
Does anyone have a suggestion?
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Michael Boniwell
http://www.chockstonephotos.com
http://chockstone.smugmug.com
Michael Boniwell
http://www.chockstonephotos.com
http://chockstone.smugmug.com
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Has there been any movement on this issue? I need to make a business decision about which printer to use soon.
Michael Boniwell
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http://chockstone.smugmug.com
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