Prints Review! Some are sh*t! Some... not?

If you've been reading any of this nonsense that I write, I've been doing a lot of complaining about which direction I want to take the way I display my art. So knowing and not knowing I've just been trying out different print techniques until I have the balls to pull the trigger on a projector or "THE FRAME"... (IT'S A F***ING TV SAMSUNG)

I'm still waiting on a few prints, but basically what I did was, I went on a bunch of online printing places, the ones that are similar like UPrinting or Printful or Photo Prints Now, I also tried ordering my own art on... not Teespring but Redbubble, I have a shop there with a few things. I went to a couple of local print shops too. So, the ones online have finally trickled in, and I have to admit, not bad... not bad. I can't be mad at it, they actually look good!

Some of them.

As I ordered them, I thought, "Man... I'll just give these out to friends if the colors are off. These are just to test."

I'm always hesitant because colors look different printed out, so you tend to do some light color correction depending on what you might print on. Printing on metal vs printing on paper or wood, ya know?

Anyways, so this one I'm looking at right now is from Uprinting. Looks like they printed it onto a board and stuck it in a frame, I like the texture the board gives, also this way there's no warbling like the paper ones I got from local shops. I swear for anything other than a regular poster stock paper you'd have the Power Rangers on are so overpriced... Ah, inflation on wood products. So, I'm not mad the way Uprint did this, it looks solid, some glare on the glass, but it's plastic, not flimsy, which is good, much better than those super cheap poster frames I found at Michaels. Again, not mad at that, I can put a pretty decent art piece, frame, and all for about $27. (Thank you, Michaels)

I'd love to find local print shops to work with but honestly, the couple I worked with here in the great valley of Phoenix (Glendale) has annoyed me in one way or another. I'm not mad enough to let them know, I get their bread and butter are schematics for contractors and home builders, but come on... You see some, in my opinion, dope artwork come through, you'd think they'd pause and take time cutting the edges off straight, for example... Or read that I had ordered two copies of each and have me drive back after the weekend because you already started something else and you wanted to leave.

As I said, I'm pleasantly surprised by these print-on-demand pieces that have been coming in because for the price, I didn't have high hopes, but they are solid, good frames, and the colors came out on point.

All in all, I'm happy, gotta bite the bullet and get a large acrylic print done and see how that looks. The last place I tried to order that from, local spot, called me a week after I had ordered it, it was $20, which I thought, how amazing, such a crazy price... and it was. They called me to tell me it was a mistake and that it should be $130. So, I quietly hung up and thought, "Later."

Gunna go feed the baby, she's doing good, cute af, threw up on mom this morning, I laughed. All around good times.

Oh! One more thing. So, it looks like I have a shop on my website, but they want me to upgrade to sell on here, and honestly, that's the shop over on PRINTFUL. So just go there and buy my prints cause if you try here right now, it will say it can't. I found this out after I linked the Uprinting app onto this wix web builder. I seriously thought because it was being sold on another platform, I wouldn't need to upgrade my website, but apparently, I do.

Ahhh, that pay to play.

Bye!