Digital BW, The Print

Silver printing of headshots for serious marketeers (eg for adolescent
models, managers of 50 years old motel lounge rock bands or aging
former starlets) involves hundreds of prints and costs start at around
$2.50 each, dropping  to  $.50 each or less (depending on
middlemen)...the standard and cheapest  when the headshots are
lithographic. 

Nobody important cares about gloss for headshots, it's only a
photographer's affectation. It has nothing to do with utility, whether
portfolio or reproduction. In any case, the utility of printed
headshots is vanishing...the main distribution is now online anyway.

Ordinarily the images require captions, which when photographically
printed means they are contact printed for sharpness...they're
sometimes even gang printed (eg 4-up) and cut.

I don't think inkjet printing can do a typical order of, say, 500,
within a time frame that allows the work to be done
economically...even at minimum wage. Better to have the work done in
India. 

Check it out. Visit labs or websites that deliver the services. 

Djon




>   I do wonder if
> this isn't one case where printing onto light-sensitive paper (I'm not
> going to call it analogue) is the cheapest and best way of doing it.
> 
> Best,
> Helen
>