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It kinda sucks ass if you don't have your printer 2bh. I go to a place, and even though each small print is cheap, like 2-8 bucks, you do need to work it at least once, so the cost doubles from that + printing in the larger format that you'll end up using anyway.
So, right now I'm on my... third revision, and that was like 45 bucks for everything so far (two large ones, three smaller ones, two smaller ones for final corrections).
That's the cheap part, framing them is then something like 50 bucks or so for me.
So 150 for three frames, and 45 plus I guess it's gonna be something like 30 bucks for the final ones, that's 125 bucks in total for three.
I already sold two in advance, I'm charging 1000 for each because large size plus that's what people have been paying.
Metal prints are fine, people like them although they may feel cheap, good for selling your flickr shitty stuff.
Photographic paper is nice, you gotta sell it as fine art and shit, though it's not easy to find people that do it, I guess online is possible but I never tried, only every used labs in town. You're kinda limited in size with this one though, not easy to do huge shit.
Inkjet is absolutely fine. Get someone that has a fine printer, use either kodak or fuji paper, kinda the same, you can put a film over it that can give it a metallic look or whatever.
Never do canvas or other super gay shit, it's gay, it's for selling to retards (even worse than those people that buy metallic prints on flea markets), it looks like shit, you'll fell bad.
Advise on selling? It's all about having someone be your distributor, the kind of people that sell to stores, hotels, etc. I started through a friend and now I do it alongside him.
Selling online is shitty unless you're famous, and even then. Part of the art deal is selling your shit like it means something. The human interaction will make your prints sell for thousands instead of hundreds.
