Before being in the car wash industry, I spent 20+ years in the business end of high-tech computer graphics for printing.
So, as a benefit to us North American types--you know, the kind that use U$ dollars, you should let one of us (and yes, I am volunteering) investigate having the poster printed here--either as a duplicate of that in Europe or just for us here. The cost of shipping printed paper "across the pond" combined with an inflated Euro and deflated Dollar might make this prohibitively expensive as a European project. What good is the poster if it is so expensive nobody wants it?
If there is a low-volume demand, say just a couple hundred copies, they can be printed via giclee (which is a fancy French word for Ink-Jet) and UV laminated. 4/C or 5/C (varnish) sheet fed offset will require a volume far exceeding our membership to produce--you are looking at probably a minimum run of 1,000 copies.
Cees, when you get the European price; factor in postage, convert to dollars, I think the poster might be too expensive to produce there.
In this age of digital data, the entire file to produce the poster can be emailed and the poster printed here. Get me the specs on the poster or a mockup so I can see the % ink coverage, sizing, etc. and I can get it quoted here. Also, the designer should let me know whether it is 4/c, 5/c or more. Often times on quality work, 4/c is the minimum. Additional color ink is added to "bump" certain colors that don't typically reproduce well with 4/c. Then on posters, you would typically add a varnish layer.
Thoughts anybody?
Michael Salemi
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