Message-ID: <eeea499a0806101113v6ae6ca0bp18c1c6fae044fea6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:13:51 -0700 From: "Russell Hanson" <riverroadrambler@gmail.com> Subject: Re: low cost large sized posters?
I had several suggestions and tried a few. www.sircooper.com is an email
print shop that has good service and decent prices on posters with some
options. I tried 3 there and they were satisfactory, except the mounted one
was a little dented by UPS in shipping.
Another suggestion was Sams Club. I went to the nearest one to me, Twin
Cities, and they have kiosks to print posters up to 24x36 and several
smaller sizes. The price is low and quality good. The difficulty there was
the kiosk software cropped my pictures that weren't in the exact ratio of
24x36 or other size they allowed so it chopped off the surplus poster. No
ability to override the cropping--so you have to make sure your poster is
exactly the right ratio. It was a rather "stupid" cropping program that
wouldn't allow me to leave a little white space on one dimension so the
other would all fit --it insisted in cropping off part of my poster to make
the other dimension fit!
I think my strategy will be:
-- create poster in Printshop setting the 2x3 foot ratio as the
picture dimension
-- printing at Sam's ($14.00 approx) or SirCooper --same price plus
postage $10 (over $100 free)
-- framing with $10 Walmart poster frame
-- spending $75 for a tank of gas to get to Sams ;-)
Thanks for all the ideas! I think if you have suggestions you should reply
to the whole group rather than send them just to me. I am sure it would
help others too. I am including the replies in this one (I think!)
Russ H
The new book "History of Cushing, WI Vol 1" is for sale through SELHS BOX
731, Cushing WI 54006 for $15 plus $2 postage. 208 8.5x11 pages, 250
pictures, professionally printed and bound paperback. Sterling Eureka and
Laketown Historical Society--Sub Chapter of Polk Co Historical Society--The
Western most tip of Wisconsin.
On 5/28/08, Russell Hanson <riverroadrambler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We are preparing some wall posters for our museum and are interested in how
> to do it inexpensively. We need to design, print, mount, and display
> them. I think about 24x36 would be OK for the size for most of them.
>
> Any suggestions? Have you done it yourself? We had an estimate of $300
> per poster (I think those may have been 3x4 feet) to take our pictures and
> text and create the mounted poster. I tried creating some posters with
> Printshop, printing them in some smaller pieces, assembling and spray gluing
> them to masonite (cost of about $10 per poster), but they look pieced
> together and sort of less than professional!
>
> The local printshop wants $75 just for a single piece poster print from
> our print ready file--seems pretty steep! Then we would have to mount them
> ourselves and hang them.
> Thanks
>
> Russ Hanson Luck Area Historical Society-- Polk Co WI.
> The brand new Luck Area Historical Museum and Library will have the
> building completed by mid July of this year.
>