[Dailydrool] Brainstorming about a PBF poster project

[Val Brewer]

Aloha, Susan, I see you are inquiring about a poster project. I know Eleri has 
asked about this as well, and that there was enthusiasm about this idea last 
month.

Let me give a brief progress report. Nancy Kay has been looking into some 
possibilities, as have I, and there are some questions we both have. I figure 
many Drooler brains together are better than only a couple (especially if one of 
the couple is mine). An early question is "Is there still interest in this 
project?" "If so, how many posters might we be talking about?" "What would be 
the price range that would work for droolers?" "Is there a rescue/rescues out 
there that would want to take this on as a fundraiser?"

Once these questions are answered, then there is the how to go about it 
question. There are a number of Internet companies which will make posters from 
your digital images. One of these is Sir Cooper. For 50 posters, the cost per 
poster for production would be about $13. A post office mailing tube would be 
$2.50, and postage would vary by location, but let's guess $2/per, so to go the 
Internet company route would have an up front cost of $17.50 per poster. Monies 
would need to be collected ahead of time (as Pam did with the mugs) and then the 
order placed. To make any profit on this venue, the posters would probably need 
to sell for about $25. ($7 profit per poster for rescue). Would Droolers be 
willing to pay this much?

A different alternative would be to make sections of a poster downloadable from 
your home computer--say, the ASTT, the SEALs, the State Department, Admirals, 
etc. onto letter sized paper. Then each person wanting a poster would select 
maybe six such sections, tape them to a large sheet of paper.poster board, and 
take this composite to their local Kinko's and have a poster made by color 
xeroxing. Depending on the size of the sections, maybe all would fit on one; 
maybe not and to get everyone you would need to make more than one poster. I 
haven't priced this alternative (as there isn't any Kinko's on my island, 
lol--this was my brother's suggestion). We could also have downloadable 
graphics, headers--kind of a do-your-own project. To make this a rescue 
fundraiser, maybe a contribution to a rescue of choice would be required to 
download?

Or, there may be better ideas than these. I think maybe we need a task force to 
address these questions and explore ideas. Volunteers, please. Also, is there a 
rescue interested in helping coordinate this? Write me and I'll help out in any 
way I can, though my computer skills are quite minimal. Mahalo, Val


      
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