Printing Service for BCC Members

One of the items that was flagged during discussions at our recent AGM was the issue of PRINTING. Printing is certainly to be encouraged since printing photos, being the obvious consolidating factor in the photographic process, is not practiced regularly by many members. Home printing seems to be a daunting, complicated and expensive option for amateur digital photographers, often with unsatisfactory results. Empowering members with the confidence to make their own prints through workshops and informative presentations will be one of the areas we hope to address in the year ahead. Last year we had a number of Motivations with an optional 'print' category and this will certainly continue. In fact, this year we intend to put considerable emphasis on demystifying post-production and printing processes.

Conor Dowling, who judged this month's Motivation, is returning to the club after a busy year being involved with developing the Boyle Civic Art Collection. For the past number of years, he has printed members photos for our annual exhibition in Boyle Library. Conor is now offering a very competitive printing service to club members who wish to print photos for Motivation submission and framing.

Inkjet Prints in Colour and Black & White on semi-gloss/lustre, professional quality photo paper.

A4 - €3.50

A3 and A3+ - €12.00

Club members can send EDITED, HIGH RESOLUTION, JPEG files via WeTransfer (see note below) to info@sonarsolutions.com

Prints can be collected by arrangement at Boyle Enterprise Centre.

This is a really easy solution and great deal for members who wish to finally print those special images gathering dust on hard-drives. Seriously, no excuses now!!

WeTransfer is a FREE on-line, file sharing website where files up to 2GB in size can be uploaded. The user adds the email address of the intended recipient of the file, then WeTransfer sends a notification email to the recipient who can then download the file to their computer. WeTransfer holds the file on it's server for one-week, at which point they remove it. The beauty of this facility is that email servers do not get clogged or emails bounced back to sender. A very useful site to have 'bookmarked'!