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.
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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.
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
nice! frustrating about the shipping to Canada though.
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.