Yes! Basically you get to add as many pictures as you like on a design, and they also provide a wide selection of fonts. You can't make a book with Zazzle, but a poster or card with a poem on it is no problem.
Layering pictures and text is a great thing about it, because you can have an image as a background and paste text on it, and move the text around to make it fit better with the background picture.
So you have to make the things using Zazzle software? Or is it a case of uploading a jpg (or similar) into Zazzle and muck things about so that they suit a button or a poster or what-have-you?
Can you do erotic/sex-positive/sex-worker ally/etc text, or are there Rules against that?
How do the royalties work? (E.G.: How much of a given postcard price do you actually get, and how does the royalties-amount effect the price of the item?)
<*am thinking of doing a line of greeting cards and/or buttons*>
You can do either. Most of my stuff is just uploaded pngs, but sometimes it's easier to make a transparent png and select the background on Zazzle software just because it's easier to get the right bleed area that way.
You can post R-rated stuff, though if you mark it as R, it won't show up for non-logged-in visitors. No rules that I know of against sexwork positive messages, and I doubt there is that.
You can't have R-rated postage stamps, though.
You can assign your own royalty. There's a base printing price, and what you add to that - percentage or dollars - is your income.
You don't have to pay anything to set an account up - obviously otherwise I would not recommend it. You'll have to drum up outside interest yourself, because you won't get customers just through the site itself - often, at least. No fanart allowed (but it's there anyway). Their printed T-shirts do not look as good as advertised, especially on black, but their cards and iPad cases definitely do. You should always upload BIG versions of every image because otherwise the print quality will not be good enough, but Zazzle will warn you when they think your image file is too small for the product.
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Layering pictures and text is a great thing about it, because you can have an image as a background and paste text on it, and move the text around to make it fit better with the background picture.
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Can you do erotic/sex-positive/sex-worker ally/etc text, or are there Rules against that?
How do the royalties work? (E.G.: How much of a given postcard price do you actually get, and how does the royalties-amount effect the price of the item?)
<*am thinking of doing a line of greeting cards and/or buttons*>
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You can post R-rated stuff, though if you mark it as R, it won't show up for non-logged-in visitors. No rules that I know of against sexwork positive messages, and I doubt there is that.
You can't have R-rated postage stamps, though.
You can assign your own royalty. There's a base printing price, and what you add to that - percentage or dollars - is your income.
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(Good to know about the "R" rating restrictions).
Are there any catches I need to know about?
TTFN,
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You don't have to pay anything to set an account up - obviously otherwise I would not recommend it. You'll have to drum up outside interest yourself, because you won't get customers just through the site itself - often, at least. No fanart allowed (but it's there anyway). Their printed T-shirts do not look as good as advertised, especially on black, but their cards and iPad cases definitely do. You should always upload BIG versions of every image because otherwise the print quality will not be good enough, but Zazzle will warn you when they think your image file is too small for the product.