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Re: [Digital BW] Need price quote help fast

2001-10-10 by Jerry Olson

Also try and find out what light they will be viewed under. 

Jerry




Todd Flashner wrote:
> 
> Steve
> 
> If these are prints of your images I'd like to see you make more money than
> that! $12 isn't much more than the price someone would pay for a custom 8x10
> at a decent lab if it's one of their own negatives. You'd be practically
> giving your IMAGE (your art/vision) away for the price of materials alone.
> If it were up to me they'd be paying you $12/print for materials and
> expenses, plus at least a couple grand for usage rights. They can't buy
> pillow cases for the price of those prints, and you can imagine how many of
> those they buy, and how fast they replace them. They owe you some towels and
> an ashtray big time. ;-)
> 
> Todd
> 
> > I client has asked for a volume price quote for 300 8x10's of two images. For
> > a hotel project in Japan. I can only guess that they want cheap.
> > Rc prints
> > Silver Fiber from digital  negative
> > Piezo
> > Any ideas on how to price the 3 mediums above? I could do any one of them. I
> > need to give them a quote by the AM. I have done deals like this with RC
> > prints only at 12.00 each. I can do 300 RC 8x10 in about 4 hours. I rather do
> > better and get more.
> > Anybody done any volume sales with Hotel type projects? Normally I don't
> > offer 8x10's at all anymore.
> > Steven  Meyers
> > http://www.xray-art.com
> 
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