Packaging for 18x12 prints

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Anybody any recommendations for packaging 18x12 prints for posting. I would like to send the flat rather than in a roll.

Any suggestions as to suppliers ?
 
http://www.euroffice.co.uk/i/2j7/Ne...Board-backed-Peel-and-Seal-Manilla-C3-Pack-50

MIGHT be just big enough, unless the prints are a genuine 18" long. 18" is 457.2mm and those envelopes are very slightly shorter than that (0.2mm shorter!). If you can find a local supplier at full price, try buying a single envelope to see if the prints fit.

A quick search of Amazon turned these up...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boardback-E...s=officeproduct&ie=UTF8&qid=1352739898&sr=1-1

PLEASE let your fingers do the looking, we're not your personal Googlers!
 
Nod said:
PLEASE let your fingers do the looking, we're not your personal Googlers!
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Thanks for the links. I found lots of options but was asking for recommendations - this builds in lots of factors like how good the packaging is at actually protecting the prints. The kind of stuff you dont get from google easily.

There are lots of people on here that send lots of prints and I was just asking what they used to do it.

I do take your point about 'personal googlers' and it irritates me too. But hopefully you can see that I was asking (even if not clearly explained at the time) for more information....

What I would like ideally is the sort of packaging that DSCL use. A flay cardboard box that is about 20x16 with two bits of cardboard inside that can be used to sandwich the prints. I have been ordering prints from them order by order just so I can reuse their packaging but that is not very P&P efficient !
 
Have a look in your local yellow pages and find a couple of packaging manufacturers/cardboard box makers. Take a DSCL box along as an idea as to what you like and get some prices.

For unmounted prints, I reckon tubes are the answer but for mounted ones, you obviously need flat packaging. I have a vision of an oversized pizza box in my head now but I know I'm not getting an oversized pizza. :(

If you can find a cheap source of board backed envelopes and flat cardboard, maybe a sandwich of cardboard/print/cardboard inside an envelope would be stiff enough? Beware of writing "Photos Do Not Bend" on the outside though. Some commedian along the line might write "Oh yes they do" underneath it and prove it... (It's happened.)
 
I wasn't too far off with my vision of a pizza box! My current healthy eating regime (it's not a diet!) sort of bans me from pizzas though. :'(
 
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