Do you guys remember Vintage Printable? It was an amazing website where you could find large-scale images that were past copyright for free download or print.
These days, the site isn't working. It was such a great resource for covering large amounts of wall space for a small amount of cash. Does anyone know why it went away?
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Not sure, but if you go to the last cache of their website (click on the 'Cached' link at the end of their meta description), you can see old posts about their having server problems. My guess is they haven't gone away and are just having technical difficulties.
According to this blog and comments, it was working last week, so maybe it is just a temporary server issue...
http://cottageandvine.blogspot.com/2011/01/vintage-printables-how-to.html
On facebook they posted...."Vintage Printable NEWS: We're off line until 1/31 while we migrate to new server. We're very very very excited about 2011. But first we're going through the living death of server migration. Apologies for the drama/inconvenience. We'll try to get some new images up through facebook for the time being later this week."
According to their Facebook page they are offline until 1/31 as they move to a new server:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vintage-Printable/180094917484
There is a great vintage stock image site called the Graphics Fairy - http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/
My heart sank when I read the top of this post. Yay for new server confusion! I was planning on printing a bunch of stuff for my dining room. PHEW!
Hello all,
I was just browsing the VP website over the weekend and actually downloaded a few prints. While there, I noticed that VP reps had made a few posts regarding issues with their server. Apparently they have been trying to get a new server, but were having some technical difficulties. So, I believe they will be up and running again as soon as they get their ducks in a row.
Alicia
This is the first time I've heard of them, so I'm eagerly awaiting their return from server limbo!
The Graphics Fairy is cool too, thanks blueprint! :)
This is the first I've heard of them too - But I'll definitely be checking them out again when the server issues are taken care of. Maybe we can get someone from VP to post an update here?
Really hope they get whatever this is fixed soon because server errors can really mess up a person's rankings in Google. Best of luck to them.
There's a website where you can print large-scale vintage printables for FREE? Oh, joy! I think my I-have-to-add-art-to-my-walls-but-can't-afford-it troubles are over as soon as that server is up.
Sounds like they're going to get more traffic ... hope that server can take it!
ha ha! A blog post from Dec 17th from their website: We are in server hell. We apologize. We're consulting with experts this week and next and what doesn't kill us will make us stronger.
Now their Facebook page is gone too? Very weird.
Wow!
Hi - this is Swivelchair, the proprietor of Vintage Printable.
First, know that we'll be back ! We're undergoing a re-do in web design and moving servers. (A saga.)
Thank you AT (and AW), and everyone for all your kind wishes and your patience. We're very grateful (blown away is more like it). And, we're in awe of the creativity and talent of the Vintage Printable users. So you all are awesome, in the broadest sense of the term.
We sincerely apologize for wasting anyone's time during our web development efforts.
We are told our new, fast, secure server will be up on January 31. It will be with the old web design at first (apologies, apologies. . .), but we're working up new web designs.
We also have to transfer our e mail to a different provider, so apologies for any bounced e mails.
We will always have free, mostly vintage, mostly scientific or naturalist, public domain images that can be printed on an ordinary printer.
In the mean time: Our Facebook page. We have some images prepared as e books up on Scribd.
Thank you again AT community (and AW). We'll send along a note when we're back up.
Footnote: We couldn't be more pleased at the representative images chosen for this AT post, particularly the medieval doggie doctor performing urinanalysis on the sick blue kitten.
Hi everyone - we're back up, in the old web design. Website re-design ongoing. . .
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"medieval doggie doctor performing urinanalysis on the sick blue kitten" LOL
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