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Print Pricing
"Eric Miller" wrote
"Pudentame" wrote in message According to one of my instructors, if you're going to sell prints, and want to stay in business, your selling price should be 4 to 7 times your costs. Well, that is definitely in keeping with my estimation of the photographer's costs. Did your instructor elaborate on his math? I don't doubt it, I'm just curious about the rationale. Moderate volume manufactured products sold without retail distribution nominally sell at 3x the unburdened direct production cost. A mark-up of 4x to 7x over printing & framing costs sounds very reasonable: the one-time costs for making a print - taking the photograph and 'designing' the printing process/photoshopping - are high; and the production volume is low. -- Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Meters http://www.darkroomautomation.com/index.htm n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com |
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Print Pricing
Nicholas O. Lindan spake thus:
Moderate volume manufactured products sold without retail distribution nominally sell at 3x the unburdened direct production cost. OK, I'll bite: what does "unburdened" mean in this context? (Obviously, IANAE.) -- Any system of knowledge that is capable of listing films in order of use of the word "****" is incapable of writing a good summary and analysis of the Philippine-American War. And vice-versa. This is an inviolable rule. - Matthew White, referring to Wikipedia on his WikiWatch site (http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/wikiwoo.htm) |
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