The Hub - print on demand

Rob MacKillop

Rob MacKillop

Edinburgh Correspondent
Occasionally I get a professional print made by theprintspace - they do a good job, and have great delivery.

Yesterday they sent me an email detailing their new venture - The Hub - where I can sell my images. They do the printing, money dealing, shipping, and I get whatever profit I want to add on top of the costs of production (including their profit margin).

I thought I'd explore it further.

It turns out that their smallest print size (20 to 30 cms, depending on the images I uploaded) costs £13.21, inc vat, with 30% of that coming to me.

However, there is an option to add a thin white border, and guess what the cost jumps to? A whopping £64.98!! That's 50 quid for a white border. I think I'll add the white borders before upload!

Examples: https://art.tt/9y

I can embed these links on my website.

What do you think?
 
Rob a 30% gain is large, very good for the way this works I'd have thought, I am surprised at their generosity, but maybe I am out of touch nowadays.
 
Rob MacKillop said:
Julian, you set the profit yourself, but the price of the print goes up accordingly. I could have set 100% or even 10,000% (what it's worth, of course!) but the print cost would be astronomical. I thought 30% was good.
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Ok I get now, I had one of your earlier moments. I have signed up to their e-mail after not finding the HUB. Takes me back I do remember taking negatives and picking up prints when in London at a professional photographic printers , for a photographer friend. Seemed very cool at the time, but of course it is very easily accessed today. I may well at some point order a print if I get a decent photo that I like enough. I have though attempted to insert the printing profiles into Cs6 without success . So have to do it blind.
 
Rob MacKillop said:
Ah, Julian, if only you had a photo worth printing ;)
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Yes my snaps of the family growing up I've got lots of 6x , 7x5 shoe boxes full, from the days of sending of through cheap deals of getting the film printed and a free film in return. Actually those are the ones I'd probably like printed lager.
But for anything else I don't believe I've taken a picture that I'd put up as say I would a painting. Not as yet maybe my luck will come and I am one click away from a beaut .;)
 
I think I can speak for almost everyone here, possibly everyone, when I say: Are You For Real?! LOL. You've put some stunning images up here, some of the best. Get printing! ;)
 
Rob MacKillop said:
I think I can speak for almost everyone here, possibly everyone, when I say: Are You For Real?! LOL. You've put some stunning images up here, some of the best. Get printing! ;)
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Kind words Rob but I feel a million miles from what you suggest. There are moments when I think I do ok , then the doubt runs around, taking its ropes and ties those positive thoughts up with knots that wont be undone with no key insight. That's what gets you up to go out the next day to try and do better. Also It's eco not to print , especially when there's plenty of ink left inside this monitor ;)
 
i got an email offering 50% off from them ... i may try it out with fuji metallic and perspex
 
Rob, are they decent quality prints from here...???

I've only ever used Whitewall who ship from Germany...
 
Firstly I say that it looks good Rob, it's worth a try. What Julian is concerned in regard to him putting his pictures on the wall, I should think he has a problem choosing which one out of all the good ones. But I do understand him. I myself photograph mostly people and they do not kind of fit on any of my walls. Sadly to say there is not much space on the walls either since they are mostly covered with plants and flowers.:D
 
Pete Askew said:
This is very interesting Rob, thanks. And your stuff looks good there.

Julian, what can I say?! I'd love to see your wobbly townscapes printed. :)
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Yes I can see one of those maybe three come to think more about them. But rather do an oil or acrylic based upon them, I used to paint images similar which is where I got the idea to photograph in that way , for me i like to them more physical and material depth. It is the one thing that troubles me with certain photographs, are their material flatness,where the light is only within the image and not created and contributed by it, though not all by any means.
 
I've sometimes felt that frustration with photography too. I like going to art galleries often, and it is the depth given by the paint textures that, well, adds depth. When photography wanders into the painter's territory, it runs the risk of being the poor cousin. But photography has much to offer which painting can't, as we all know.

I sometimes wish I could paint so that I could have more control over colour. As a consequence, I do less colour photography than I used to. But this is an area in which you, Julian, excel, as you have demonstrated on many occasions.
 
When getting prints done, does everyone have them mounted and framed by the printer, or afterwards by a framer, or is there another preferred method of purchase...???

I find, because a good many of mine are 16:9 ratio, standard shop-bought frames aren't particularly good. I've tried cutting my own mattes, but this is a dark art in its own....
 
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