We’re a small family business. Recently we began making some 4×6 "info cards" that consist of a picture of our product and some photoshop’ed text, including company name and contact info. We’ve been printing them at home with an inkjet on photo paper, but the product graphic is somewhat color intensive, making it quite costly to produce. Also because the price can fluctuate often, ordering prints in the hundreds would probably result in a lot of wasted prints when the information/price changes.
I was wondering if I could take the images and have them printed at local grocery store photo labs? What sort of problems can I expect to run into? I have read through several online photolab policies and have not come across any explicit mention of prints for business use (in plain english that can be understood anyway). If this is not possible, what other options is open to us? We’re looking for some way of printing that is on demand (a day or two) and doesn’t require a minimum number of prints.
Our product is not anything obscene, but I prefer not to clearly state it’s nature for privacy reasons.
Any and all answers/suggestions is greatly appreciated! Thankyou VERY MUCH in advance.
As long as you can prove you are the copyright owner of the images, you should not have a problem.