May
8
(2006)
QOOP Flickr Poster
Filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: Flickr, photography, qoop.
QOOP now allows orders for photo printing from Canadian addresses - meaning I can order stuff from Flickr, and have it printed as calendars, posters, books, T-shirts, etc… I just ordered a 13.5″ x 19″ poster containing all 757 photos I’ve published to Flickr (or at least as many that fit nicely on a poster - it couldn’t fit in all of them, so dropped about 20 photos from 2004).
The process was pretty painless and simple, but has one rather large drawback: it’s spendy. Not for the printing, but for shipping. The $9 poster cost $15 to ship.
nice! frustrating about the shipping to Canada though.
Thanks for the mention -
Just to clarify: QOOP does offer a more economical alternative for shipping via International First Class Mail, but it does take 2-4 weeks and is not guaranteed/trackable. Costwise it usually runs about half the price of DHL Worldwide Priority Express (1-3 days).
Hugh
hugh@qoop.com
True - there was the slow/unguaranteed method, which sounded so painful and risky that nobody would use it. A Canadian printing outlet would help - or at least a Canadian distribution outlet. You could send jobs there for printing, or truck up the output from the States before dropping in Regular Old Canada Post for delivery.
i have a hard time calling 13 x 19″ a poster
The poster arrived today, and it’s really great! It’d be better as a 20″x30″ large format print, but it’s so cool being able to see a year’s worth of (selected) photos at a glance. Definitely worth it!
do not use anything but DHL for international mail. I spent a year traveling Africa and Europe in 2005. Anything sent by anything non DHL was destroyed.
I shipped a computer tower to africa and it was packed perfect, that is unless the delivery company and customs didnt decide to have a sumo-rugby-cagefighting contests on top of my package. I mean it was ridiculous!
With something like an art poster, good luck.