lens2art
September 22nd, 2005, 02:33 AM
For all those that are interested, have a look at www.prodarkroom.com. They offer processing facilities and professional gallery services. The galleries can either be part of a domain hosted by them or embedded directly into your own site (making it look like their part of your site, without anyone else's name splashed across your site). Loads of functionality and a minimum of 1gb of space (no limit on bandwidth) for a very reasonable monthly fee. If you quote 10pc3mdis you'll receive 10% discount for the first 3 months. Hope it is of some interest.
Mike Panic
September 23rd, 2005, 02:59 AM
smells like spam to me
who's their lab, whats the quality, is this UK only?
lens2art
September 24th, 2005, 02:46 AM
Nope, not spam, and sorry, I don't know what labs they use. I don't use them to do any printing! I use them to host one of my sites plus processing (returned to me to get printed). Great service, great prices.
Mike Panic
September 24th, 2005, 07:47 PM
Pro-Darkroom charge a minimum of $7.00 per re-print order, or 15% of the total cost of the order to the client (whichever is the greater) to manage the print fulfilment. This covers the cost retrieving the image from storage, resizing the image(s), sending them to our approved printing company and then dispatching them to the purchaser.
Postage & Packing / Deliver is charged at cost.
SCREW THAT!
they want 15% of whatever im charging my customer?!
that means if normally charge $18 for an 8x12 that means it is costing me $2.70 plus shipping... sorry, i can get them done locally for cheaper and faster
not only that, but if you are a higher end photographer charging several times that, you are making them more money and yourself less
lens2art
September 26th, 2005, 08:07 PM
I don't use them to do my print fulfilment, I do it myself - I think most people choose to do it themselves. However, if you actually costed out your time to find the CD, select and size the images, complete an order form, upload the images, check the upload worked and then put them in folders when you get them back from the lab and send them out to your client, I think you'd actually find that what they're charging barely covers the time. As I said, though, I use them for the galleries and processing, not for print fulfilment.
