Digital BW, The Print

Hi -

Our website is www.AAubreyBodine.com.  We sell note cards, matted 
note cards, and "reprints" of any of the A. Aubrey Bodine photographs 
in our collection on EEM, EUS and Primere Art Canvas.  There are 4000 
iamges posted on the website and another 8000 scanned but not posted 
yet.  We have about 120 retail locations carrying our cards and 
reprints.  We do about 1/3 of our sales direct via the website or 
phone.  That's what I meant by retail sales.

Although since our note card business has exploded - doing 1500 per 
week these days - I'm anticipating getting an HP Indigo 1050 digital 
press to take that printing back inhouse - mainly to control the 
schedule.  We've had about 35,000 note cards outsourced to a local 
print shop that has a Indigo Platinum (early generation 1050).  So 
I'm planning to do short run printing for other photographers - note 
cards and calendars - where "short run" means 250 note cards - either 
250 copies of one image or two copies of 125 images.  Seems to me 
this business model has escaped the notice of the entire print shop 
world.  Most print shops still think "offset press" and haven't 
adapted to digital offset yet.  Why in the world do they still price 
based on number of copies?  It's digital for heavens sake, every page 
can be different - at 4000 pages per hour.  They just don't get it.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin" 
<vinket@...> wrote:
>
> What, specifically, are you doing for the retail business? Is this 
> original photography, or are you just printing for them?
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Richard 
Orban" 
> <ro@> wrote:
> > ... snip ...
  I'm printing for the retail 
> > market - i.e. 8x10 for $20, 11x14 for $30, up to 24x30 for $100 - 
> all 
> > B&W, using ImagePrint gray profiles, and gold tone (50,50), rose 
> tone 
> > (75,100), or blue tone (20,20) - Aubrey Bodine's favorite toning 
> > other than sepia which he used for Salon exhibition prints. 
... snip ...
> > Anybody see our 1/4 page ad in B&W Magazine this month?