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Professional Printing
V3rtigo:
i found a local kinkos where the manager is a gamer. he gives me a break on price. normally its around 50-60 cents for regular color 8.5x14 prints, which are good enough. cutting is $1.50 per stack although i just do it at home with a ruler and x-acto knife on glass. if you find a location that refuses services, just go to another one.
robertstump:
Most Kinkos have a self service center where you can do them yourself. The pricing works on a per-minute basis, I think 45 cents for their pcs with Photoshop, and 20ish cents for the ones that don't. I always print from the ones with Photoshop, it seems I can never print right from anywhere else (the size is always off). Then they charge you for the prints too, about 1$ per color 11x17 the last time I went. You can cut the paper yourself for free on their long cutting boards, they're nice boards too.
Kinkos service is really hit or miss, I generally just skip them and go to their self service. My buddy worked at one for a while, she said employees take a lot of abuse from customers, probably explains why they suck 50% of the time.
I hear that Office Max is really good about printing, though I've never used them.
Shugo Takahashi:
Thanks a lot for the info, guys. This doesn't sound like a bad idea.
Mick Dundee:
I tried to go to staples about 2 days ago to get some covers printed....I don't like Staples.
I asked how much it would be per picture.... $2 dollars to open the folder on the flash drive at my pictures, and $1.09 per print out.
But they wouldn't print them for me anyhow... she pulled the "Copyright Infringement" BS, and told me I need Nintendo's permission...even though they were for PlayStation cases....dumb B*!$#
Any place with Self Service should be a lot easier to use. Just hope they don't get nosy, they might do the same thing and tell you you can't print the cover images.
Shugo Takahashi:
I found the nearest Kinko's and went up there. I was shot down at the mere utterance of the words "DVD case". Office Max, down the street, did the same thing.
Screw it, I'll just continue to make them at home. If somebody could tell me how to print covers to proper size on letter-size paper, that'd be great. One of the running problems with my covers is that the backs are all cut off a bit. It really doesn't matter as much because it's the back, but it would still be nice if it turns out I'm just doing something wrong...
If I need new paper, then so be it.