USPS Gound Advantage Replacing First Class

First-Class Package is a popular shipping option offered by USPS that allows businesses and individuals to send lightweight packages that weigh up to 15.99 ounces. Many artists and photographers we know who do their own shipping use this service to ship their prints. What they may not know is this service will be changing in July of 2023. Here are some things you may want to be aware of if you are using this service.

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The Right Box for Your Art

So much more artwork is shipped today than before. And using the right box to protect an art print as well as elevate its value is incredibly important. Most of our customers do not bother to ship themselves and have their orders drop shipped through us. But occasionally a customer will want to ship their prints themselves. If so, they will have needed to develop some sort of shipping strategy.

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Packaging Prints – Part 1

A lot of our customers choose to ship their prints themselves, especially if they are taking advantage of built-in volume discounts on prints. It is not uncommon for them when they are first getting started to ask for advice or tips relating to best practices when packaging unframed prints.

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Packaging Prints – Part 2

In part 1 on the topic of packaging your artwork, we focused on some best practices when shipping only a few prints at most by using either rigid flat mailers or shipping tubes. Now in part 2 of packaging your prints, we explore shipping larger bulkier items such as a large volume of prints, stretched and mounted canvas, or framed prints.

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3 Common Mistakes with Soft Proofing

Most people who have been printing their artwork or photographs have at some point, usually when they first began to have images printed, run into the issue in which some colors appear different in print compared to what they saw when they viewed the image file on their computer. Soft proofing is a way to help minimize these differences beforehand because it gives you an accurate representation on your screen before you even print.

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How to Offer Sales On Your Prints

I have known a lot of artists that struggle with the concept of offering sales for their prints. Some have even asked me as they sit on the fence, is it okay to offer print sales? The answer is not a simple yes or no. Some artists may find the concept of offering sales not necessary but if you do choose to offer it, here is some advice to help you get started.

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Cutting Your Prints

I recently discussed torn or deckled-edged prints. But people also ask how we cut and manage so many giclee prints. When we give them a behind-the-scenes look at our facility they are quite amazed at the organization and sorting of so many prints when we may have to produce so many prints each day on over 20 different giclee papers.

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