FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
I don't think that our pricing system is complicated. In its simplest form, we have a "setup" fee, which covers the work that it takes to get the art submitted by the client output to the product requested (we also sometimes refer to this as the "proofing" process). That wold include photography or scanning (if originals were submitted) or color tweaking to make our printers agree w/ what our monitors are showing (if the work was submitted to us digitally). From there the cost involved would be for the actual products themselves.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
About 10 years ago, a friend & business associate, who is also an artist, asked me (since I had computer expertise) if I could make some prints of his artwork. In attempting to honor that request for him, I became immersed in the phenomenal possibilities of producing accurate color reproductions of artwork. This led--of course--to acquiring all of the toys that go along with this type of endeavor: cameras, scanners, printers, etc... As my friend began to put the work that I had done for him out before a broader public, I began to get requests from other artists. Well, one thing let to another...
- What types of customers have you worked with?
Photographing artwork for the purpose of printing them as note cards & fine art giclee reproductions on watercolor paper, matte paper &/or canvas.