[Ad] Custom decal rates

Well it's sort of an ad, but in reply to Kevin:

> What were these rates?

Rates for custom work depend quite a bit on what how complex the job is and
how much is done by us. In all cases I'll quote a price before you have to
decide.

The base price is always $5, which covers printing of a single 4" x 2.5"
sheet.

The price for artwork and layout is where things tend to get messy.

For something simple like a bunch of text, it'll be around $5 just to lay
everything down, build the layers and such. A few simple images won't end up
costing that much more than text.

More complex images that I can trace from a scanned jpeg would run around $10
for the tracing time and such.

Complex images that cannot be traced and require actual artistic talent (of
which I have none) wil have to go to our resident artist and prices will be
quoted on a case-by-case basis.

After the base page is done, you can have as many copies as you like for
$4
each.

Tom

What if we do the layout ourselves? What file types do you accept? Photoshop,
Corel Draw, Quark, etc? Maybe as.jpg or.gif or.tif, etc.? Thanks, Jay

Thomas kindly opined:
> Rates for custom work depend quite a bit on what how complex the job

> What if we do the layout ourselves?

The less work I have to do, the less it costs...  :-)  However there
will always be some layout work for us, unless we spend a dozen or so emails
going over the formats and standards we use.

> What file types do you accept? Photoshop, Corel Draw, Quark, etc?

I use Corel Draw for the layout and the final print run is done from
Illustrator. We can accept JPEGs and the like but the print quality is usually
low for bitmapped images. Corel imports most vector format files that I've
come across.