[WARNING] If You Don’t Ask The Right Questions When Offering On Location Prints You’ll WASTE Hours Of Unnecessary TIME And ENERGY And Be Completely Overwhelmed.
Setting up on location printing may seem simple at first but there are a few things in addition to equipment you should consider first.
Questions to ask your client:
How many prints?
Settle on an estimate up front so you know how many printers and supplies you need. For example, the client is expecting 300 guests and most of them are couples, so we will plan for 200 photos.
What is the budget?
You must make sure your supply costs do not exceed your price. We either price per print or per hour, knowing how many prints can be achieved per hour and our cost for materials, per print.
How quickly do we need the prints?
If you need 300 prints done in one hour and your printers print 50 photos per hour, you will need 6 printers running continuously.
Items you need:
Printers: Depending on your prints per hour figure, you may need more than one high quality digital printer. I recommend having two at minimum in the case of printing malfunctions.
Printing table: You’re going to want a table for your equipment that is as close to you as possible but in a place that does not tempt guests to touch things.
Computer: If you want to do any editing or cropping you will need a computer. It’s possible to just pop your memory card right into the printer and get quick images.
I personally think the Canon Selphy CP910 Is The Best Printer For Mobile Event Printing. There’s A Video On The Next Page Showing The Printer.
