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Subject: Poster-size printing
Posted by: Guru
- [3143299] Thu, May 12, 2005, 14:18
I will have a large jpg file that I would like to have printed as a poster. Dimensions will probably be in the neighborhood of 2 feet by 3 feet.
Is anyone aware of any online services that offer this at a fair price? And what is a fair price? I might be getting only one print, although it could be several (of the same image). |
| 1 | StLCards
ID: 324191211
Thu, May 12, 2005, 14:32
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You can probably get it done locally by just going to your local photo developer. Walgreens does a 24 x 36 poster for $26.99.
walgreens
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| 2 | FRICK@Work
ID: 220211
Thu, May 12, 2005, 14:45
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I have used ezprints.com and shutterfly.com. I was happy with the results from both. Pricing changes on a regular basis, but expect around $20.
Depending on what you want to do with the photo you might want to have a small print, 4x6, done first to ensure the colors are correct. Your monitor settings may cause the photo to have a different look on your screen compared to the print.
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| 3 | biliruben
Leader
ID: 589301110
Thu, May 12, 2005, 14:47
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Walmart has all sort of print options, but don't go there. I hates them. HATES them.
They wouldn't let me make a copy of a photo of my grandpa in uniform for his West Point obit.
Photo nazis.
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| 4 | Mike D
Sustainer
ID: 41831612
Thu, May 12, 2005, 14:50
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How can that be bili? Sue 'em for discrimination!
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| 5 | Farn
Sustainer
ID: 451044109
Thu, May 12, 2005, 14:52
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Walmart won't sell any picture that could be copyrighted. Obviously they have no idea so if its even remotely possible its copyrighted they won't sell it.
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| 6 | biliruben
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ID: 589301110
Thu, May 12, 2005, 14:53
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They wanted permission from the photographer - a family friend who had taken it 50 years ago in a different state, and had died 20 years ago without heirs.
Went down the street to a local shop who was thrilled to do it for half the price, in color.
Should have gone there first.
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| 7 | Mike D
Sustainer
ID: 41831612
Thu, May 12, 2005, 14:57
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Man, that's whack.
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| 8 | biliruben
Leader
ID: 589301110
Thu, May 12, 2005, 14:58
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There were also 2 mothers of Iraqi casualties there, bitching about the same thing. Trying to get obit photos from high school portraits.
What a public relations fiasco.
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| 9 | FRICK@Work
ID: 220211
Thu, May 12, 2005, 15:04
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Legally they can't make reprints of the high school photos, unless they took the photos themselves or they have a release from the photographer.
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| 10 | Mike D
Sustainer
ID: 41831612
Thu, May 12, 2005, 15:04
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Well if the 5 or 6 of us in this thread boycott Wal-Mart, maybe THEN they'll get the message.
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| 11 | biliruben
Leader
ID: 589301110
Thu, May 12, 2005, 15:07
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You are correct, Frick.
My ma went back the next day to complain and, to their credit, she found out that they ended up providing the obit pictures for the war casualties for free. That was legal. They just couldn't charge for them.
My guess is that they were getting complaints from the photography studios who were losing business on reprints.
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| 12 | blue hen
ID: 34342811
Thu, May 12, 2005, 15:18
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Heh, I hates em now too. That's terrible.
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| 13 | ukula
ID: 454441215
Thu, May 12, 2005, 16:56
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I got a 4' x 6' poster made at Wal-Mart from a satellite photo of hen's house and surrounding neighborhood. The quality wasn't bad.
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| 14 | biliruben
Leader
ID: 589301110
Thu, May 12, 2005, 19:04
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That's funny enough that I am beginning to suspect blue hen is self-stalking for publicity.
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| 15 | Ref
Donor
ID: 539581218
Wed, May 18, 2005, 17:15
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I inquired about a photo last month at a commercial place and they also said they won't use a copyrighted photo without authorization from the person who took the photographs. She said that many people are scanning copyrighted photos and passing them off as their own. She said as long as they can't prove or likely prove these aren't copyrighted, they will use them. I guess with digital technology at its current state, it's hard to figure out the difference at times between amateur and professional photography.
After thinking about it, I finally took a digital camera and made my own photographs and threw it into a software program and printed it out and accomplished the same thing I was going to do from their company at a fraction of the price and without infringing on any copyrights.
CVS and Walgreens have all kinds of deals all the time. If it's your own digital picture for instance, you can go in and get prints done (I think as large as 11x14) for like $6.99 and once per month CVS is buy one get one free. I can only assume CVS can do the 24x36 if walgreens can. Probably at about the same cost, but if you want two of them by any chance, cvs might be the place to go during their weekly special that month.
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| 16 | blue hen
ID: 34342811
Wed, May 18, 2005, 18:07
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Biliruben, don't give him that much credit. Luckily, I live in a house with about 1000 other people. They sell oversized satellite maps of my neighborhood on every street corner.
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