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Andry
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p.1 #1 · How much for Canvas Wraps?

Can someone give me a ballpark on how much you charge for your gallery wraps? Do you do three times the price or something like that?

I order from Simply Canvas and people really like them. I have a couple of samples in my studio office. I was selling a 16x24 for $250, but I sort of felt like it was way to close to my regular print price of a 16x24 on photographic paper. This is after all a museum gallery quality item, right?

What do you charge?

Thanks,

Andrea

Jan 31, 2008 at 01:51 AM

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p.1 #2 · How much for Canvas Wraps?

20x30 for around $589 or so.

Jan 31, 2008 at 02:33 AM

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p.1 #3 · How much for Canvas Wraps?

for a 24x24 I charge my clients about $150 (£75). I make VERY little on that, but its because I know the clients will just buy the image off me and do it themselves, so at least this way I can guarantee the colours and quality is of the canvas are as I would want them to be shown off.

Jan 31, 2008 at 09:36 AM

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p.1 #4 · How much for Canvas Wraps?

Hmmm. Okay, well, I put my prices about right in between. I did 3 times the cost + shipping. Hope that ballparks it about right.

Andry

Jan 31, 2008 at 02:23 PM

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p.1 #5 · How much for Canvas Wraps?

NMPhotography wrote:
for a 24x24 I charge my clients about $150 (£75). I make VERY little on that, but its because I know the clients will just buy the image off me and do it themselves, so at least this way I can guarantee the colours and quality is of the canvas are as I would want them to be shown off.

Then don't sell the image.

Jan 31, 2008 at 04:22 PM

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p.1 #6 · How much for Canvas Wraps?

sboerup wrote:
NMPhotography wrote:
for a 24x24 I charge my clients about $150 (£75). I make VERY little on that, but its because I know the clients will just buy the image off me and do it themselves, so at least this way I can guarantee the colours and quality is of the canvas are as I would want them to be shown off.

Then don't sell the image.

I've had more people book me because i sell images on CD - its something the public want and its something they can't get from a lot of photographers round here.

Personally I hardly make anything from print sales as no-one seems to want them, so if they want to pay for an image, I get more money that way, and as I still own the image, they just get printing rights, I can still use it for the website, advertising etc.

Jan 31, 2008 at 05:04 PM

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p.1 #7 · How much for Canvas Wraps?

NMPhotography wrote:
for a 24x24 I charge my clients about $150 (£75). I make VERY little on that, but its because I know the clients will just buy the image off me and do it themselves, so at least this way I can guarantee the colours and quality is of the canvas are as I would want them to be shown off.

So to ensure your highest level of standard, you price yourself lower.

Genius strategy there. Way to set yourself apart.

I choose a different approach. 3x cost + post production time = $400. Not exactly innovative as I prefer a profit approach.

-m

Edited on Jan 31, 2008 at 07:28 PM

Jan 31, 2008 at 07:25 PM

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p.1 #8 · How much for Canvas Wraps?

i'd prefer the profit approach - but was finding that clients would look be buying the prints and canvases from cheap companies and showing them to friends and family - not the best way to get recommendations.

i only spend $40 a year on advertising as 90% of my books are on recommendation, so in a way I guess its a saving. I'm not the cheapest for my packages anyway. lowerst is about $1720, about $1000 more expensive than quite a few others round here

Jan 31, 2008 at 07:37 PM


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