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As I suspected, the Epsom R2000 is an overly expensive, overkill approach to the problem that you would never get your money back on and honestly is more to satisfy you the shooter than the Client.
I just printed a full T&I shoot on Canon 7260 printers that cost me $90 ea brand new. The parents and players were stoked with the prints. Well and truly exceeded their expectations so what do you need to go over investing and tying capital up in even more expensive equipment for??
You don't need to get all pedantic about using the best printer made ( or the most exy) to produce good work.
Personally, I'd be doing the maths. How many requests a week do you get? What are the people prepared to pay? If you are going to do postage stamp 6x4's for $2 or something, forget it!
Work out what your return on investment time is going to be on ANYTHING you invest and then see if you are better off sending the work out or doing it in house.
I'd be sending it out to start if you don't have a printer to just gauge what happens when you put a price on your work, You might find suddenly people loose interest or they are going to look on the net or whatever but those orders never come.
Test your market First.
And why price 3x? What has that got to do with anything?
You think Nike charge you 3X what it cost to make their shoes or Crapple charge 3x what they can produce an Iphoney for in some factory in China?
Do you think they may have done some market research and said "What is the maximum people will pay for this hyped up and overly marketed crap we produce?" and set their price point at that?
The price point is simple, charge what the market will bear.
Not what some idiot nearby who has never read a sales or marketing book in their life is giving their work away at, but the max the people will pay to own that picture.
If you can't make a decent dollar out of it, what's the point of the exercise in the first place? Just put all you pics on a site and give them the link and be happy.
No need to go to expense and effort to make nothing!
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Sep 13, 2016 at 07:27 PM |
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