Sunday, August 31, 2014

Color Copies

I found out that I was changing grade levels at the end of last school year, so I turned to pinterest for kindergarten ideas-there are sooooo many great things available! By mid-June, I had found about a million things that I wanted to use! But everything seemed to be in color. :-(  I have a color printer at home, but replacement cartridges add up quickly. I looked around for color copy pricing at local places, and everywhere seemed to be around 30c per copy-that would also add up quickly-REALLY quickly, as I had hundreds of copies I wanted.

In searching online, I found a company that wasn't too far away that made color copies for 6c per copy!! 6 cents!! It was like a dream come true! ;-)
I was able to upload the dozens of files that I wanted and submit my order online. Then I went to their shop, which is about an hour from my house-I planned other errands in that area for the same day. (They also ship, I think it's around $3). I arrived and picked up my hundreds of copies, including some poster sized and many on card stock. I think my total was around $50, but was WELL worth it!

Here is a quick sampling:
The picture isn't very good, and definitely does not show the quantity! They came in a copy paper box lid that was stacked very compactly to the top. Quality was great!

So-I wanted to give a shout out to Copies in Color -I believe that it is a small chain and there are other locations throughout the US, but if you can't find them locally, they do ship!

And just a note, to share something I learned... they don't like it when you upload 30 different files, but you give instructions for them to print "one copy of pages 2, 4, 6, 17 copies of pg 18, page 22 one copy on cardstock..." which is what I did. For pretty much every single file. Many of the files that I had were from "Teachers Pay Teacher" or somewhere similar. I didn't want copies of the cover or the back advertisement page, and some documents have color pages and b&w pages all in the same document. So I gave very specific directions for every file I uploaded. They said that it was crazy difficult and they wouldn't do it again. I didn't think about it from their perspective when I sent in the order, and as the copies are only 6c, I should have just printed the whole document and spent the extra 12c or whatever. So...lesson learned :-)

I downloaded pretty much every file from someone I found on pinterest, either through teachers pay teachers or a blog. I will give credit when I do individual posts on each of the documents-if I tried to find every source right now, I think it would be the longest blog post of all time! Soooo many wonderful teachers out there share their creations! I am so very grateful for their creativity! I am absolutely NOT creative lol.

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