Adam Lenhardt

Re: Do you print your photos at home do you take them elsewhere ?

I did the math on one of those photo printers and it's actually cheaper to upload them to CVS. ~$.15 prints and the quality's about as good as film prints.

Aaron Reynolds

Re: Do you print your photos at home do you take them elsewhere ?

Hi guys.

I ran photographic labs for 17 years. In the last 5, I had been totally digital at my custom lab.

Chemical printing is much cheaper than digital printing in terms of costs; digital printing can last a lot longer (depending on the printer, ink and paper used). Inkjet, from a good printer, can deliver a result significantly better than chemical can produce.

The chemical format is not inherently better -- my own experience is that you can get a much better result from inkjet, for a lot of reasons that I can get into if you really want to hear about it. But the reason you're seeing better results from a lab than you're getting at home is because the labs basically know what they are doing.

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gvw

Re: Do you print your photos at home do you take them elsewhere ?

I really enjoy printing my pictures at home. I use photoshop CS2 on a regular basis for corrections and just graphics in general and it's allot of fun, although I think it would be cheaper to have them printed somewhere else

DaveF

Re: Do you print your photos at home do you take them elsewhere ?

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For you home printers, what's your printer? I'd like an all-in-one (photo / normal printer, scanner / copier. no fax). I'm finding useful reviews very difficult to come by. And ideally the scanner would equal or better my wife's older Epson Perfection 2580.

For our hundreds of wedding photos, my wife uploaded to Target.com and did in-store pickup. She's also taken CDs to get prints from BJ's (a Sam's competitor), which uses Qualex for prints. Both gave good prints, so service in all cases was abysmal.

I'd like to start doing individual prints at home, to cycle fresh pictures around the house and at work.

Scott Merryfield

Re: Do you print your photos at home do you take them elsewhere ?

I have a Canon i860 printer that works very well for photo prints, but it's not an all-in-one. Cartridges are reasonably priced, and the printer was about $90.

I have a separate Canon N670U scanner, and an HP Laserjet 1100 that we use for day to day printing. The Canon printer's only used for photos, and the rare occasions where we need a standard color document.

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