Thanks
@Box Brownie - I guess your 10 x 10 has (say) an 9 x 9 image inside a 1/2" border?
The plan evolves every time I get an order - once every 6 months or so! and that's half the b****y problem!
It's a slow moving plan that never survives engagement with an actual customer!
As it stands though, the plan is (was? pfft It's a great plan - the best) to offer unmounted, and later mounted prints. I don't have a mount cutter yet - I guess the "plan" was to get that when someone ordered one!
@jerry12953 , thanks for that - maybe that's a better option and would help govern / better limit what I'm printing, rather than trying to be all things to all people. That also seems to be my camera default aspect ratio so makes life easier for me.
My print prices are grouped off ISO sizes - A4 - A1 as I think most people understand that. But (and I think this might be one place I'm going wrong) for A4, I'd also accept 12 x 8 (camera default aspect ratio) and 12 x 10 - I similarly round down for the other ISO sizes. I don't usually crop when I process my images unless there is something that needs to be removed. It's probably a mistake that I'll need to revisit,, but I guess I take the image with the default aspect ratio (3:2) and never really consider someone might buy this... and what do I crop it to?!
I also offer panoramas and square where appropriate. I take a lot of panoramas, but due to screen sizes and facebook limitations, they just don't seem to get the attention I feel they would if people saw them large and printed. And this is the main reason I got a roll printer, so I'd want it to be a proper offering. Panos would likely need custom mounts I suspect.
I might occasionally do framed prints as a special, if I see a frame that looks good and fits an image. But those would be off the shelf frames.
I've got greeting cards on my website, but haven't actually got a plan to print them. I printed a few cheap postcards of a single image and put them in a friends shop, and they seem to have done steady business actually, so I really should have done more, at a higher quality.
I need to stop making excuses (because lets be honest, that's exactly what I'm doing!) and actually make an effort, update my website, start properly marketing, selling, putting myself out there, etc, especially after buying that printer!!!! All I do at the moment is fail to maintain my website, and post a new photo to facebook once a week or so! How I even get the orders I do, god only knows....