Printing

Offline backups that do not need batteries

October 3, 2018 — October 11, 2021

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Figure 1

Simple printing things, especially in Sydney, especially for non-designers like me.

1 Photos

The following list borrows from Chantelle FatMumSlim who reviews photo printing options for Australia.

  • Camera House. FatMumSlim’s pick. It is a reseller for dakis, a turnkey photo printing system. It charges a lot for postage because it wants to do courier delivery for some reason?
  • Officeworks Requires the Flash player plugin, which is a giant obsolete security hole. Best to uninstall after use. Moreover, the Flash interface is excruciatingly bad. If I want to upload 100 photos, I need to press the upload button 100 times. It will happily upload duplicates and bill me twice. Delivery is expensive, so I’d better pick them up myself.
  • Harvey Norman Also requires Flash. The interface is bad but not quite as bad as Officeworks. In fact, it seems to be a slightly more recently updated version of the Officeworks software.
  • Photobox
  • Picturepostie
  • Snapfish

2 Art, big

3 Backlit signs

My local backlit printer does small-run backlit, which is fiddly.

4 QR codes

OK, QR codes have actually been useful to me.

5 Stickers

Essential.

6 Temporary tattoos

7 Incoming

Online design app canva will print out the things you design and send them to you. If I never have to understand full-page bleed again, I will consider my life richer. I will happily pay their surcharge for this convenience in small runs.