{"id":972,"date":"2019-11-08T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T17:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T18:14:28","slug":"comparison-of-online-print-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/08\/comparison-of-online-print-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of online print services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year, I created a follow-up project to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/24\/what-to-know-about-printing-maps\/\">one on working with professional printers<\/a>.  I ordered a copy of the same cartographic image from 14 different online print services and compared the results. In my talk at the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/nacis.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"NACIS  (opens in a new tab)\">NACIS <\/a>conference in Tacoma, I revealed the customer experience and print quality of each.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Someday My Prints Will Come: Comparison of Online Print Services\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w9H2E8g89pY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Someday My Prints Will Come: <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Comparison of Online Print Services<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ve designed a map and want a to print a small run to sell or distribute. There are many online companies clamoring for your business, but their services vary widely in areas like pricing, available sizes, texture, customer experience, and quality. How do you know where to order and what to expect? To answer this question, I ordered prints of the same cartographic image from over a dozen online printers. In my talk, I&#8217;ll share the resulting prints and what I learned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, I created a follow-up project to the one on working with professional printers. I ordered a copy of the same cartographic image from 14 different online print services and compared the results. In my talk at the annual NACIS conference in Tacoma, I revealed the customer experience and print quality of each. Someday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1001,21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps","category-technology","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}