Well on the question of how many items are sold, as with for example trading through a web site's marketplace, a certain amount of trust would have to be involved between those involved. I can see several possibilites for making payments but in many ways that would depend on where the artist was and how they wanted to be paid. Paypal (or similar), direct bank transfer, cheques and store credit are all obvious possibilies. Printing on a well set up and maintained personal printer using good ink onto high quality paper stock will produce good quality prints for the small quantities I would expect to be involved at least to start with. I know of several artists who use home printing to produce the prints they sell. I also know and regularly use a professional printers, the shop is above a printers (not one I've used) and there are three other printers and reprographic shops within 10 minutes walk of the shop so prices could be investigated. I'd suggest that the cost of printing be taken out of the sale price before any "profit" is divided between those involved but as with payments.

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