Source for prints

[Garnetta]

I'm looking for a few sources for prints. I'm aware of Lieberman's.

I had a decorator bring in a customer last week and place orders for framing. They were both very impressed with our shop and the frame selections we had to offer. The decorator inquired about prints and I realized I need to do some research and find more sources. Are there sources that I should be aware of so I don't appear to be "podunk?"

:shrug:

[j Paul]

Do you have access to www.artaissance.com (http://www.artaissance.com) from LJ?

Kirstie brought www.casacollection.ca (http://www.casacollection.ca) to my attention via the Grumble the other week, and I have since added them to my website offerings.

Of course there are many, many publishing houses (of course Liebermans reps I believe over 100 of them) One newer one to take a look at is third & wall. http://www.thirdandwall.com/pages/home/homepage.jsf

[DawnStendin]

In addition to Liebermans, I use Canadian Art Prints and Winn Devon. Nice quality and good wholesale prices. I tend to sell more to decorators from these. They charge for your initial catalogs...but they are nice and updates are free.
www.canadianartprints.com
www.winndevon.com

I just had my first order from them for prints on canvas and they are really nice as well.

Happy hunting!

[happycamper]

I agree with Canadian Art Prints and Winn Devon, also add to your list Euro Graphics from Quebec...they offer nice work too and great service.

[MnSue]

add
www.thirdandwall.com and
www.grandimage.com

both similiar to the artaissance program

[Bob Carter]

Unless you have a volume deal with any publishers, support Lieberman's. You get wholesale pricing, one stop convenience and one tube shipping chrges

Canadian Art and Winn (both Encore group), EuroGraphics are available through Bruce

But, what's up with dealing with foreign companies?

[Garnetta]

EuroGraphics are available through Bruce


Who is Bruce?

I hope this isn't a dumb blonde question.

:nuts:

[j Paul]

Bruce = http://www.bmcgaw.com/

[Bob Carter]

I'm sorry, I thought everyone knew Bruce Lieberman

I'm pretty certain that McGaw doesn't carry Eurographics, though whereas Lieberman's does

[Bogframe]

It's not a dumb blonde question. Bob means Bruce Telekey (http://www.bruceteleky.com/Scripts/default.asp). You might also want to try Frame-It & Company. (http://www.frameitco.com/) I've dealt with them a few times and they're nice people.

[KL Smith]

But, what's up with dealing with foreign companies?

First time I have ever heard of Canada being referred to as a "foreign country".

[Robert Kellum]

I didnt see it mentioned here, but I have used Art Prints Wholesale several times with very good results.

www.artprintswholesale.com

The prices listed are "retail" so you can send your customers there. Once you register you get a true whosale price. VERY good customer service

[DTWDSM]

Robert,

I have not heard of those guys. What is the "Wholesale Discount"? How l;ong is turnaround? Do they actually stock the items or are they like a liebermans?

[Mike Labbe @ GTP]

I agree with Bob about Bruce (Lieberman's) company. Not only does it represent just about everyone, but it also sponsors this forum and helps make it possible. Lieberman's is a friend to our industry, and isn't selling directly to our customers.

In our shop, we have a public use computer terminal to search for prints. It's set off to the side with a table and chair. It has the Lieberman's Art Explorer DVD loaded (to search about 200,000 prints from 115 publishers). Folks do use it! Since adding this service, we no longer buy yearly updates for the printed books, and removed them entirely.

The computer search makes it much easier to find exactly what folks want, searching all publishers at once. You can search by decor style, genre, price range, color, size, artist name, print title or keyword. It lets you set the retail price, and has a "shopping cart" system. At the end it reports their selections, item numbers, and price.

If you sell a lot of prints, I highly recommend this search tool.

Best regards,
Mike

[DTWDSM]

I forgot to mention when I last posted that I do agree with Mike and Bob, unless you have some sort of high volume discount, Liebermans is the place to go. They do support this forum and we should support them!

[DawnStendin]

In our shop, we have a public use computer terminal to search for prints. It's set off to the side with a table and chair. It has the Lieberman's Art Explorer DVD loaded (to search about 200,000 prints from 115 publishers).


Mike,
I totally agree with supporting Liebermans as a sponsor of the grumble. I honestly hadn't thought of that. I have just started buying from Liebermans and so far have been happy. How does one go about getting that DVD...do you have to be on the Art on Line program...or can any wholesale customer get it?
thanks

[j Paul]

Dawn, just call Lieberman's and ask them, pay your money and they will send it to you!

I do have the Lieberman's DVD on my computer to which the customer has access. I find that the DVD/CD gets outdated pretty quickly though. I now have DSL on that computer and it is less expensive just to go to www.liebermans.net (http://www.liebermans.net) and let the customer peruse their website.

I do wish that Lieberman's would set something up like www.hollandframeshop.artaissance.com (http://www.hollandframeshop.artaissance.com) that gives up on own unique address and can help up capture the sale easier than the customer having to comeback to us once they leave the store. Or even worse, never having coming into our store in the first place, just visiting Lieberman's from our link to them from our web-page.


Here is what came up on a web search and a good reason not to support Art.com
Finally, professional custom framing at affordable prices, so you can save up to 40% compared to your local frame shop. Our professionally trained framers ...
www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--10374112/

[Lance E]

I am interested in finding a simple solution to offering prints - however I just looked through the Liebermans site and can't figure out how much they want to charge me to sell their products with the Art Explore thing, does anyone know?

[j Paul]

Lance, call them! You will get at least the standard trade discount. Don't think it is smart to state what that is on a public forum.

[emarts]

I do wish that Lieberman's would set something up like www.hollandframeshop.artaissance.com (http://www.hollandframeshop.artaissance.com) that gives up on own unique address and can help up capture the sale easier than the customer having to comeback to us once they leave the store. Or even worse, never having coming into our store in the first place, just visiting Lieberman's from our link to them from our web-page.


I just saw this on Lieberman's site:
http://www.liebermans.net/ProductandServices/Services/artonline.aspx

Anyone doing this?

[BILL WARD]

LIb's. greatest sin(imo)is that when they redid their web they made the images show so *&@#^% little neither me, nor most of my customers, can see what they need to see to actually make the decision to purchase!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our old eyes simply don't see little thing that well! As a consequence, I still dive into the seperate webs or the catalogs I have on hand(still have a problem with the color renditions with alot of the webs---catalogs/printing seems to STILL be the most reliable of the choices). call them up online, compare the printed stuff beside the crt/lcd/etc, and the actual print you end up with---usually 3 different color sets. so who's at fault--the guys that setup/published to the web, or my lcd, or the guy setting up the print run??????? back when I was near a university(LOTS of 'college' art--cheap/commercial) I got starry night/van gough all the way from noonday brite/lite to almost black--sometime from the same vendors month-to-month....NO consistancy but at least I could tell it wasn't MY lcd doing the tricks...now, I'm never sure.

[Lance E]

I have emailed them in the past with no responce, probably find they don't want to send stuff overseas or some such. I tried again, so will see what (if any) outcome there is.

Bill, to make a screen bigger in your browser hold down the CTRL key and scroll up on your mouse, this will make the images appear larger in IE7 as well - you can then move the image to take up the entire screen.