This Parent’s Day, it’s a Pixart celebration.
Almost an advertorial, but honestly, not quite.
Several months back I did a review of the very novel Photo Book concept by Pixart. This time around, the guys at Pixart have graciously offered to give readers at minishorts.net a special waiver off their delivery charges.
If you can't remember, this is what an ultra cool page from a Pixart photo book turns out looking like:
I find it very professional, and far more convenient than having to rely on Photoshop and a cColour printer to do the printing. Plus the cover is professionally produced, and comes with a complimentary stand, allowing you to use the photobook as a table-top decoration.
The cost to print a Pixart photobook varies, depending on the type of product you intend to buy, between RM69 to RM89, and additional pages should you require damn cost up to RM10 per page. Which is all right, I think, considering the quality of the printing, and material, and the end product you get (which is mightily satisfying, as many other bloggers would agree).
What could be a bitch with regards to the cost of buying the book, is that Pixart also requires you to pay the shipping costs. It's only RM6 (if you're in West Malaysia), and of course, consumers being consumers, they'll always find a way to complain, and if you're like me, my initial grouch was, 'Wah lao eh, I pay almost 90 bucks adi they still wanna charge me RM6 for shipping? What is this lah, can't they absorb the costs into the product itself?'
So anyway, this time around, the guys at Pixart have graciously offered to give readers at minishorts.net a special waiver off their delivery charges. Which means, the following prices will be waived, if you tell the folks at Pixart that you learnt about Pixart from minishorts.
RM 6 Peninsular Malaysia (anywhere)
RM 9 Sabah & Sarawak
This is what the folks at Pixart have promised:
Free Shipping is available for all Malaysian customers (Pen Mal & East Mal) from now until 31st May 2006 – Just for being introduced via www.minishorts.net
To redeem free shipping – it just takes 2 simple steps
Step 1: Customers will need to select “Self Collect” option at the country selection when entering “Customer Details” in the Purchase Section of Pixart's PhotoStylist software. This means “Zero” charges for shipping.
Step 2: In the “Customer Remarks, Suggestions & Feedback” box – type in the word "minishorts”. You will be indentified as being introduced via Minishorts.net and will receive FREE shipping for your photo book order.
Here's Pixart again, if you didn't know where to go to start off with:
Now mother's day is next week, Father's day is in June, and there's PLENTY of birthday celebrations coming up yeah? So I'm telling you, if you're going to budget over a hundred bucks to get something that he/she's probably already guessed you'd buy/make, why don't you make it EXTRA special, and get your loved ones photobooks from Pixart? It's special, its way under the normal budget of at least RM100 for the special person in your life, and it's definitely going to last a lifetime.
You may ALSO click on the animated gif on the side bar to get to Pixart, and remember, you need to mention that you came from minishorts to enjoy the free shipping.
May 8th, 2006 at 11:42 am
I still dun know how to get the pics into the album….ARGH. What didn’t I do right! Coz I really really wanna…need to…want to get it for someone
May 8th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
shit!! i want! but you know what? i cannot download the installation coz the program is only compatible with windows and i am using macosx…..how??
May 8th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Hi Serendipity,
Greetings from Pixart. We noticed your post and wanted to inform you that we have recently begun supporting the creation of Apple iPhoto books. Apple users can make their photo books using iPhoto & send us the completed PDF file for photo book creation. Do email us at customerservice@pixart.com.my or visit http://www.pixart.com.my for more information & assistance.
Thanks,
Dominic - Customer Service & Marketing Manager from Pixart.
May 8th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
good review minishorts; i shall take my shots soon.
May 8th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
It would probably make your skin tone really nice, smooth, shiny, supple. Almost like milk.
May 8th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
Free shipping if we came from minishorts, that’s awesome
May 9th, 2006 at 1:41 am
Although it’s great there is a local company that does this, I’d just like to point out that lulu.com (based in the US) offers a similar sort of service for books for what I think are better prices with better service.
I did a little 6″x9″ 36-page full-colour softcover of my dearest’s holidays, and it cost about USD18 (USD9 for the book, USD9 for the shipping!). It came out very nice, and she was most pleased with the results.
If you want a 8.25″ x 10.75″ 50-page full-colour hardcover, that will be about USD25 without shipping. I guess shipping should also be around USD10.
On top of everything, you can submit your contents as PDF, so you can use the editing tool of your choice to create your mini-masterpiece.
(In comparison, Pixart is asking RM90 + RM9 for 20 pages hardcover, and you have to use their software. Size I’m not sure how big, but looks bigger than 8.25″ x 10.75″ - but I’m fine with something smaller, actually.)
What I would LOVE is a MALAYSIAN version of Lulu so I can have slightly smaller photobooks that I can reformat to my liking, MINUS that stupidly high shipping cost. Anyone from Pixart listening?
May 9th, 2006 at 7:28 am
Hi Dzof,
Greetings from Pixart. We noticed your post and wanted to inform you that we will be making available a smaller photo book very soon. With regards to your question about submiting work in PDF, Pixart currently accepts work in PDF files whether it be from iPhoto, Photoshop, Aperture, etc. Do contact us for the specific book publishing guidelines.
Pixart is currently offering shipping via Pos Laju as we have customers who live outside the Klang Valley who need a shipping option to attan their purchased orders. For residents who are in the Klang Valley, you can “Self Collect” your photo books from Pixart (located in Taman Tun Dr Ismail) and hence save on shipping entirely. During this month, it is a bonus for Klang Valley residents & other Malaysians as you will receive Free Shipping to anywhere in Malaysia when you mention “minishorts” in your order.
Please feel free to contact us at customerservice@pixart.com.my for us to assist you further.
Thanks,
Dominic - Customer Service & Marketing Manager from Pixart.
May 9th, 2006 at 10:28 am
Anything less than RM100 is quite affordable now. Just imagine Lovely Lace selling their laced photo album for RM99 now! (But of course during sale I’ve got a 10% discount).
May 10th, 2006 at 4:05 am
cool! that discount really mean alot..haha.
May 14th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
How about if Pixart connected to the Flickr API, so I can just “print a set”? Similar to what Qoop has done… just a thought
June 11th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
oh no, the offer is already over? Is free shipping to Singapore included? Heh
July 28th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
Oh, and I would need free shipping to Germany…