The Cost of Printing
Posted by Danielle | Posted in Projects | Posted on 20-10-2008
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I’m curious to learn where people go to print out their rough drafts, comps and revisions. Before project three, I’ve printing everything at work. The upside is that I do not incur any costs, but the downside is that the printer is not properly calibrated and tends to print colors much darker than they actually are.
At the start of project three, I used Kinko’s. This is a place that is absolutely evil in my eyes, so to use their services again is costing me on so many levels: personal pride, wallet, time, frustration, energy.
I haven’t used the lab on campus yet because I’m never in the neighborhood. I’m wondering how everyone else is handling things.
I actually do most of my printing at home — I do a lot of digital photography and I’ve got an awesome printer. But it doesn’t handle poster size prints, unfortunately, so I had to go the Kinko’s route myself on Project 3.
Kinkos – I live by a 24 hours one so I go late and I’m in and out really fast and pretty cheap.
that comment was from me
i print off at the lab. they have glossy and matte for the poster printer. they charge it by inch… can’t remember how much. printing my poster was around $12, maybe? as far as how it looks, i don’t mind, but i’m not that picky, i know other people have had problems with printing at school.
I agree, Kinkos is pretty much the epitome of evil.
The school printer is pretty much the best thing for the larger stuff — good quality and pretty inexpensive.
One of my favorite places to get stuff printed is http://www.indigoinkprint.com/. They do amazingly good work, but they’re in Columbia, and they have so much work going on that you have to plan ahead to get your stuff printed on time.
I’d almost just say go with your work. It’s cheap, and you can probably tweak stuff until you get the color the way you want it, right?
I send work stuff to Indigo Ink all the time. They are great at handling rush jobs. And I live in Columbia, so the location is just right for me. I guess you pay for the convenience of a place like Kinko’s that is open 24-7, but they still wanted 10 hours to print one freaking poster. And then they didn’t get it right, and needed another two hours to fix it.