Digital BW, The Print

Djon, you are correct in your comment about the economies of scale 
of printing offered by labs. But I am not a high volume operator. So 
to go that route at this time would not offer me any significant 
advantage. And yes, most intermediate to professional models do have 
a website, but black and white headshots, full length, 3/4 length, 
etc. shots (although it may seem old school) are still the industry 
standard for younger models as requested by their agents and 
agencies. When I started in the business in my late teens it was a 
necessity, maybe not anymore but still quite in demand.
 
Jo

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "djon43" 
<djon43@y...> wrote:
>
>  
> 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
> >
>