Digital vs Hand Scrapbooking Costs

Posted on July 20th, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Site Information, Training.

One of our new friends here at PrincessCrafts had a question about printing digital scrapbook pages.  Since this is a question we get now and again, I thought that I would post our answer here too.

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Hi Lois,

Kathy passed this on to me as I do most of the tech support for her.

If you want hard copies of your scrapbook pages, then yes you will need to get them printed.  You don’t need to print them yourself though.  Many photo printers, including Wal Mart now offer 12×12 print services since digital scrapbooking is such a big thing now and is becoming the #1 way to scrapbook.  They can be a bit pricey on the surface, but when you consider that the average hand scrapped page now costs more than $4.00 and go more than 5 times that depending on what you put on it… it all becomes relative.  If you don’t have a large format printer and even if you do, we recommend you check out www.Realbooks-Scrapbooks.com.  Bill and Colleen are very good at turning your digital scrapbook pages, even the 12×12 size into the most beautiful real hardbound books you will ever see.  And the cost is amazingly low.  We have them do all our books for us.  The quality beats anyone else out there hands down.  You even get to design your own custom cover… something you can’t do at all with the old hand scrapped books.

Sorry if it sounds a bit commercial, but they really are terrific and do such amazing work.

On the other hand, many of our clients don’t make hard copies at all any longer.  They create the pages and put them on DVD or Video CDs.  Others incorporate them into slide presentations using PowerPoint or Open Office (which costs nothing).  Still others add sound and transition effects using movie software and turn them into actual video DVDs and CDs.  We have an example of our granddaughters doing the Twas the Night Before Christmas a couple of years ago on our www.PrincessCrafts.com site.  This one is still a big hit with the family and gets played every Christmas.

As you can see, you can create your scrapbooks for as little as the cost of a blank DVD or you can have a full size 12×12 hardbound book with custom cover done (in multiple copies if you want) for just over a buck a page through Realbooks Scrapbooks.  You can also shrink the 12×12 pages down to 8×8 and print them yourself.  Our Cannon printer, that can use ink refills you do yourself prints 8.5×11 pages for less than 25 cents a page.  It’s also a large format printer that prints up to 13 inches wide and we get prints for as little as 80 cents a page including the paper cost when we buy in bulk. 

Hope this helps you out.  If you still have any questions, please let me know and I’ll do my very best to get you the info you need.

Happy Scrappin’

Wes

PrincessCrafts.com

(877) 751-6368

28115 N. Spotted Rd.

Deer Park, WA 99006

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com – Digital Scrapbook Memberships

www.Free-Stationery.com

www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com

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Correction to the November Scrapbook Download News…

Posted on November 20th, 2009 by wwaddell.
Categories: Site Information.

Just a couple of quick corrections from the last scrapbooking news letter.

First, I will not be adding the kits & bits kits to the element site. What I meant to say was that I will continue using the elements from this site to create papers on our other sites.  That's what I get for getting in a hurry.

Second, the New PC-ScrapbookElements category is called Alph Words, not "Letters."  I have also replaced all the animal category now for Soft Expressions and am working on Printable Pastels and will have it done in just a few minutes from now as I write this.

That's it, have a great weekend everyone!

Kathy

www.ComputerScrapbookTraining.com and www.Free-Stationery.com

 

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