[OSM-talk] Large Format Custom OSM Prints

[Gervase Markham]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> My cost for printing a Super A0 sheet is about EUR 1, and shipping to
> anywhere in Europe [that includes the UK for those in doubt] is EUR
> 4.50 (can take up to two sheets A0 or more if smaller; overseas is EUR
> 8.00). I'll sponsor the money if you promise to use the posters for
> OSM recruitment ;-) The drawback is that I have to fold the sheets for
> shipping; sending them rolled up would cost a fortune. [**]

How so? Does your postal service have rules about package size as well 
as weight, like ours recently acquired?

Can you investigate quite how much of a fortune? It might still be 
cheaper than local printing...

> [**] I'll meet a few OSMers in London next week-end so I could
> actually bring a bunch of prints with me and hand them out, but then
> again if you're a Londoner you probably have cheap printing options
> around every corner!

If anyone in London knows where to get colour Super A0 for EUR 1, I'd be 
very, very happy to know about it! Prices I've been quoted are at least 
an order of magnitude bigger, if not more.

Gerv

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