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Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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That's great feedback! We've been so rushed to get it out the door for the holidays that we're lacking some basic information up front. We'll get that up shortly! For now, some price/sizing deets: $12 each — 2.125" x 3.375" — Business Card $12 each — 2.75" x 2.75" — Small Square $15 each — 3.5" x 5.0" — Postcard $15 each — 5.0" x 5.0" — Large Square

$12 for a single business card ? I feel like I would be better served by stapling my existing business card to a $10 bill...

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Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great feedback! We've been so rushed to get it out the door for the holidays that we're lacking some basic information up front. We'll get that up shortly! For now, some price/sizing deets: $12 each — 2.125" x 3.375" — Business Card $12 each — 2.75" x 2.75" — Small Square $15 each — 3.5" x 5.0" — Postcard $15 each — 5.0" x 5.0" — Large Square

$12 for a single business card ? I feel like I would be better served by stapling my existing business card to a $10 bill...

It's definitely pricy if you order one at a time, but if you want a run of business cards costs come down to a couple dollars each. Or you can just staple your existing business card to a $1 bill!

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Is there really no way to see the pricing structure before I upload things? That's frustrating.

That's great feedback! We've been so rushed to get it out the door for the holidays that we're lacking some basic information up front. We'll get that up shortly! For now, some price/sizing deets: $12 each — 2.125" x 3.375" — Business Card $12 each — 2.75" x 2.75" — Small Square $15 each — 3.5" x 5.0" — Postcard $15 each — 5.0" x 5.0" — Large Square

What's the delivery time? I would love to print a couple of these for christmas.

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Very cool! I wrote code to do this back in 1995 for a company called 3DCOM. We supported full color, full page prints from a sequence of 24 images, each from a slightly different angle to produce a 3D "holographic" printout. the effect was so good you could stick your finger into the image.

At the time (the dark ages of commodity printer technology) it required an EPSON inkjet that could do at least 1200dpi. After printing you just slapped a sticky-backed lenticular lens (lined up with registration marks) on the printout and voila!

I kept one 8"x10" 3D printout of a buckyball that's still pretty impressive looking, even after nearly 20 years!

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great feedback! We've been so rushed to get it out the door for the holidays that we're lacking some basic information up front. We'll get that up shortly! For now, some price/sizing deets: $12 each — 2.125" x 3.375" — Business Card $12 each — 2.75" x 2.75" — Small Square $15 each — 3.5" x 5.0" — Postcard $15 each — 5.0" x 5.0" — Large Square

$12 for a single business card ? I feel like I would be better served by stapling my existing business card to a $10 bill...

It's probably not meant to be for business cards you hand out, but more of a reference of the size.

I hope.

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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This is an awesome idea. I would love the option to upload a short video clip instead of a gif though, and have it take 10 evenly spaced frames from the video. My nieces (ages 8 & 10) would love to use this to make prints of themselves in action, but it would be easier for them to be able go straight from a video taken with a phone to a printed product.

Thanks! We currently do support Vine and Instagram video, and you can pick a short clip from there. Processing all videos in all formats is a little tricky right now and it's helpful to have the pre-constraint of those social networks. Taking video from a phone is a great idea though!

It's pretty easy to extract all the image data from ANY video source using FFMPEG. If the command line version doesn't fit into your workflow, there's always libavcodec (what FFMPEG is based on). Give me a shout if you're interested in supporting any and all video formats.

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Very cool! I wrote code to do this back in 1995 for a company called 3DCOM. We supported full color, full page prints from a sequence of 24 images, each from a slightly different angle to produce a 3D "holographic" printout. the effect was so good you could stick your finger into the image. At the time (the dark ages of commodity printer technology) it required an EPSON inkjet that could do at least 1200dpi. After pr…

That's amazing! That's why we're honestly so excited about using lenticular type technologies with gifs — they both feel like dumb, old technologies that are actually kind of wonderfully straightforward, and have a lot of creative potential! If you have any photos of that buckyball print we'd love to see it!
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