I’ve joined “DeviantArt”:http://www.deviantart.com/ with the intention of creating and showcasing some new pieces and the hope of selling a couple on the side. I’m not exactly sure how the system works, yet. Is it like “Zazzle”:http://www.zazzle.com/, where they handle printing and distributing the artwork you create, and where you’ll simply upload a super-high-resolution version to them? Or is it like Ebay, where users handle production and shipping, and Deviant simply sets up the connection between creators and potential buyers? If the former, I’m always concerned about the quality of the service’s version. Will the colors come out as intended? Can I upload a high-enough-resolution file? If on the other hand I “get” to do the printing, then although I personally am confident about the quality outcome of my own prints from my nice little Epson inkjet (which takes 10 minutes to print a page at its highest quality setting and chews through ink cartridges faster than Kobayashi eats hot dogs (doubtful whether he chews)), this could be a liability for Deviant and sets up a system where they depend on user reputation and quality of prints would be highly variable from one artist to another. So… I doubt it works that way. Back when I did try Zazzle, I had used the service to order a poster-size print of one of my own images, which I was very dissatisfied with. The colors were horribly muddy (whereas output from my printer was nice and bright); the image was blocky and the dithering very visible (as if printed at 300 dpi). I’m sure mass printing technology (with far less than 10 minutes to dedicate per image) has improved considerably over the last few years, though, and I’m sure that the quality standard which customers expect from an online art service has increased. I could, I’m sure, resolve the topic of this speculation with about two minutes-worth of reading, but that wouldn’t be any fun. More importantly, I have to dedicate much more time to art, again, and I’m looking forward to that.