Personally, I probably wouldn't buy anything. But since you're so concerned
about the setup costs, you may be interested in http://www.cafepress.com/ -
you can make Tshirts, mugs, and mouse pads with designs on them and sell
them. Doc Ozone (www.ozones.com) tried this out a couple months ago
(www.ozones.com/store) and he was very pleased with the results, he said the
printing was high quality and all.

Just thought I'd let you know about that.

- Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
[ http://www.slimeland.com/images/ ]

"Chris Cason" <newsadmin-despam-@povray-no-spam.org> wrote in message
news:3bd6e439@news.povray.org...
> In a response to a discussion on this server a few weeks ago, about the
> desire to be able to purchase POV-Ray 'things' (I think it was a coffee
> mug), I have been investigating my options in this area.
>
> A mug (printed in full color) seems to be fairly expensive, because of
> the setup costs. I don't really want to do one in single color.
>
> So I decided to test the waters with something that is cheaper to make,
> and where the manufacturers don't mind doing a small run of a few hundred
> or so.
>
> I ended up deciding I'd like to have a good-quality metal keychain made.
> This fits the above criteria, plus it's rather practical since most folks
> have keys ;)
>
> We have some concept art up at
>
>   http://www.povray.org/temp/keychains.html
>
> which shows a few designs that I and the pre-beta testers came up with.
> This list isn't definitive, but it's a start.
>
> I'd like to hear from users about the following:
>
>   1) Whether the idea as a whole sucks or not;
>
>   2) If not, then if you would purchase one (cost unknown at this stage,
>      but I wouldn't expect that it would be more than US$20, and probably
>      less).
>
>   3) Which of the abovementioned designs attract you the most/least.
>
> This isn't a competition to chose a design, but I do want to attempt to
> eliminate those designs that people like the least.
>
> Feel free to make your own designs if you can do it in the next few days
> (post them in the binaries.images group). I don't have a lot of time to
> spare because, if I go ahead with this but don't get the design finalised
> by the end of this month, the lead time would cause it to slip too close
> to Christmas for comfort.
>
> -- Chris
>
>
>
>

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