What's with the name?

We've been hearing recently that people think the name of our company - iPrintfromHome.com - is a little strange and they're not exactly sure what it means. So today, I'm here to clear up the confusion and answer the burning question:

What's with the name?

The answer is rooted in our company history:


30 years ago almost to the day, my Dad (George Campos) opened Campos Photography Center - a darkroom rental lab for artists and photographers. His customers were artists and professional photographers who wanted to have more control over their printing but didn't want to go to a custom lab, didn't have access to their own darkroom, or maybe didn't have the money to invest in creating their own facilities at home.

The company evolved through the years to become a strong regional custom lab. With the advent of digital photography, the business moved in another direction. In the fall of 2001, my brother (Christian Campos) moved back to Buffalo and he and my dad launched iPrintfromHome.com - an online division of Campos Photography Center, which is now our main focus.

Operating as iPrintfromHome.com, we're still basically doing the same thing that we were doing back when the Campos Photography Center first opened its doors. But now, instead of coming to our location to rent our darkrooms and print your work, you can do it all from the comfort of your home with a little help from a computer and the internet. Hence the name: iPrintfromHome.com

March Art Show Listing

We are featuring artists from all over the United States in our March 2009 Art Show Listing. Click here to see the Art Show Listing.

If you have a show coming up and would like it listed, please send us the details so that we can include your show. Click here to learn how to submit information for our Art Show Listing.

New Customer Promotion

Have you been thinking about trying iPrintfromHome? Or do you have a friend that's been meaning to sign up and order prints of his or her work? Well, now is the time to do it!

Any new accounts created at iPrintfromHome.com by THIS FRIDAY, March 13th are eligible for a $10 account credit.

To receive the $10 credit, enter “TWEET” in the registration box when you create your new account. We will add the $10 to your account and e-mail you when it's ready to go.

If you already have an account, but want to help spread the word about this offer, tell your friends to enter "Tweet-your name". That way we can give you credit for the referral (see "Thank You Dollars" program) and give your friend the $10 new customer credit.

You might be thinking, "What can $10.00 get me?"

Here are some examples of $10 orders (not including shipping):

** (33) 4x6 Photographic Prints ($0.30 each)
** (40) ACEO prints ($2.00 per sheet of 8)
** (5) 8x10 Photographic Prints ($2.00 each)
** (1) 8x10 Giclee Fine Art Print ($10.00 each)

I could keep going...but I think you get the idea. :o) Click here for more information about our products and pricing.

Also, there is no expiration date on the $10 account credit. So you can register now and then use the $10 credit whenever you're ready to place your first order.

Click here to create an account at iPrintfromHome.com.

Creative Genius

I came across the following video on Ted.com and had to share it with you:



Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Ole! Ole! Ole!

Social Networking

I am having a blast with social networking. We've recently joined a few different social networking sites and it continues to amaze me that you can become so "connected" with a few simple clicks and keystrokes.

We are currently active on the following sites:









Each site offers different social networking opportunities. But what I am having the most fun with, is seeing how connected these sites are with each other. Once you join a few, you'll start to see the same people that you found on Facebook have a Twitter account or the people you find at C4C might also be listed at Indepublic. And as you start to make connections with people and run into them on the web, you start to feel like a member of a living breathing community.

Another aspect of social networking that I find particularly exciting is how clearly it demonstrates how beneficial it is to help each other. It seems that most of the people I've been meeting on these social networking sites are there because they want to spread the word about their artwork, photography, craft or store. But they don't just promote their own work. Instead, they participate in forums, answer each other's questions, share articles and blog about each other to build their networks.

By helping each other, they help themselves.

Continuing along that vein, we've been trying to think up ways that we can help our customers in addition to helping them make Photographic Prints, Giclee Fine Art Prints and 35mm Slides. It's clear to us that the simplest and most valuable thing we can do is use our presence on the web to help our customers gain more exposure.

So we've done a couple things - we run a monthly Art Show Listing and we are planning on adding an Artist Listing.

But the thing that is so exciting (and the reason I am having such a blast) is that these social networking sites provide the exact tools we're looking for. They allow us to network publicly with our customers, introduce them to each other, and promote their work to people who are active in the art world.

If you sign up as our friend or follower or fellow tweeter, we'll sign up as yours. And, we'll even tweet about you if we think our customers could benefit from learning about what you're doing. :o)

Come join us! Click on the pictures above to visit the social networking sites we've joined.

Large Format Photo Inkjet Panoramic Prints

iPrintfromHome.com is now pleased to offer Large Format Photo Inkjet Panoramic Prints.

These are the largest print sizes that we've ever offered at iPrintfromHome.com. Our Photographic and Giclee Panoramic Prints have been very popular with customers, but we kept hearing that you wanted bigger print size options. So, here you have it!

Photo Inkjet Panoramic Prints are available on Lustre and Glossy papers in sizes up to 40"x160"...that's more than 13 feet! Please click here for more information about pricing and size options.

As always, if you have any comments, we'd love to hear them. Click here to send us an email.

February Art Show Listing

We are featuring artists from all over the United States in our February 2009 Art Show Listing. Click here to see the Art Show Listing.

If you have a show coming up and would like it listed, please send us the details so that we can include your show. Click here to learn how to submit information for our Art Show Listing.

Now Offering Canadian Shipping!

iPrintfromHome.com is now shipping to Canada!

We get regular requests to ship to Canada, so we are super excited to begin offering the service. Please click here to review our shipping options.

You might be thinking, "What's the big deal? Why are these guys at iPfH so excited about Canadian shipping?"

Well, to tell you truth, the fact that we were NOT shipping to Canada was a real bummer. We are located in Tonawanda, NY which is located just north of Buffalo, NY. As you can see from this map, we're pretty darn close to Canada (click on the map to see it more clearly):
We are basically right on the Canadian border.

Not only are we close to Canada, but more specifically, we are REALLY close to Toronto. Toronto is a super cool city with a great art scene. This world-class city sits just over an hour and a half's drive away from iPrintfromHome.

We get regular requests from people in Toronto and Montreal looking for a company to help them create prints of their work. As you can imagine, it was pretty frustrating that we didn't have the systems in place to offer Canadian shipping, especially since we're so close. We've even had Canadians drive over the Peace Bridge to pick-up their orders from our location.

So that's why we're so excited about this. We can finally ship orders to our neighbors to the north and we won't feel so silly saying we can't. :o)

This is another example of a new service being offered as a direct result of customer requests. I can't stress enough how important customer feedback is to us. We shape our business based on what our customers want and need. So if you have an idea, or a wish, or a need that you think we might be able to help you with, don't hesitate to send us an e-mail or give us a call.

Canada, welcome to iPrintfromhome.com!

Thank You

If you've been paying attention to the news at all, you might be worried about this troubled world we're living in.

Listening to all the stories about downsizing and restructuring, I bet you're spending at least a little bit of time thinking about your job and your place in the world. Wondering about the value of what you do - wondering if what you do is valuable enough that you'll be able to keep doing it tomorrow.

I think about that kind of stuff. And, when I do, I end up thinking about you. Yep, that's right. I think about you and your fellow customers of iPfH. At iPrintfromHome, we do what we do for you. And, because my job is to focus on people, I spend a lot of time thinking about you and Jamie and Lynn and Mark...

I'm always left with the same energizing feeling: You inspire me.

As I've written in a previous post, "Artists are fascinating to work with.

"Artists are people who are headed down a path that is not easily defined. They are creating art, courageously standing behind their work and presenting it to the world. It's not an easy thing to do.

"These people, our customers, are coming to us because they need help realizing their dreams. And I don't mean to imply that we play a large role in that realization. The part we play is small, but important - important to the artist."

Being a part of that, working to help someone along that winding path, is a pleasure. I'm really happy that I get to do it every day. But I also know that I wouldn't get to do it if it weren't for you.

So today, on a day when you might be a little worried about tomorrow, I want to thank you.

Thank you for doing what you do. Thank you for heading down that winding path. And, thank you for choosing iPrintfromHome.com to help you as you go along.

New Panoramic Print Sizes

iPrintfromHome.com is pleased to announce new Panoramic Print sizes! Beginning this week, we will be offering Panoramic Photographic Prints in three new sizes: 4"x8", 4"x12" and 4"x16".

We're excited about this for a couple different reasons. First of all, it's always nice to add new sizes to our list of printing options in an effort to better meet our customer's needs.

Specifically, for those of you who are interested in buying a Panoramic Print, but don't necessarily have the wall space for a 12x24 inch or larger print, these new smaller sizes can provide an attractive alternative.

Also, these smaller panoramic printing options will allow you to place a "test-order" for a Panoramic Print, without having to buy a really big one and without spending much money. The 4"x8", 4"x12" and 4"x16" Photographic Panoramic Prints are priced at $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 respectively.

Now that we've covered the nuts and bolts of this new product offering, I'll tell you why we're really excited about it...

What we're really hoping to do with these new Panoramic Print sizes is to open a door to the world of panoramic printing. Because the prints are small and inexpensive, you can experiment with panoramic printing without worrying about using up too much wall space or freeing up too much wallet space. :)

If you haven't dabbled into panoramic printing yet, we'd encourage you to give it a try. We're all used to seeing 4x6, 8x10 and 16x20 prints. Most people think in terms of these standard print sizes and aspect ratios (ratio of the height to the width) when they shoot photographs, make art and order prints. But given the opportunity to experiment a little, you can, in the words of one of our customers, produce some "drop-dead gorgeous" images.

Panoramic printing offers the opportunity to view and frame your world from a different perspective.

With the addition of these new sizes, we're now offering three different tiers of Panoramic Prints: 4 inch, 12 inch and 20 inch. Within each tier, we have three print size options with the following aspect ratios: 1:2, 1:3, 1:4.

To actually visualize how your image would fit within one of our Panoramic Print sizes, please feel free to download our ROES ordering system and play around with the different templates. Please click here to download ROES.

You can also preview your images as Panoramic Prints using our new Printing Preference Preview and Cropping Tool. To do so, please sign into your account, open the album that contains your images and then click on "Place Order with Printing Preference Previews and Cropping Tool (Beta)".

For more information about our Panoramic Prints, please click here.