RedBubble: Superior at greeting cards (and I mean it.) Heavy stock, color matching is perfect, alignment is impeccable, fold is done to perfection, neither breaking the paper, nor crooked, nor not creased enough. On a scale of 0 to 10 with 10 as best, they rank a 10.

RedBubble is also good at t-shirts…IF the art is designed for inkjet printing. Now, occasionally, there’s a misprint, but RedBubble is quick to fix it…and you don’t have to ship back your faulty tee. Just take a digital snapshot and send to to them, and in a couple of days a replacement, guaranteed to be right, is winging its way to you pronto.

Spreadshirt.com, hands down, is one of the premier t-shirt PODS. But, again, it always is dependent upon how canny the artist is.

Calendars: I really like Zazzle’s calendars. The printing is good, the paper is heavy enough, and I’ve never had any problems with their color match…and some of my prints are TOUGH to print!

Art books: Blurb.com is my choice, right now, though there are a few problems here and there. LuLu has a nice “photobook,” but it’s S-M-A-L-L. Blurb offers a coffee table book size that’s “coffee table” sized. I still prefer a private publishers, but, hey, for POD, and hands-off sales, this is a good compromise.

Fine art prints: Imagekind. There’s also Finerworks.com. And there are a couple others that print good products. I’m not going to go into more detail than that, because each has its strengths and weaknesses as a POD and/or a web presence. Combining their good points would make a super POD, but that has yet to happen.

Dawn