Good Lord! Get a digital printer - for less than $250 U.S. - and you can
crank out 4x6s till the proverbial cows come home.
Further, what you're saying about inkjet printing can be applied,
1000-fold, to doing one's own darkroom work. But when you print your own
work in the darkroom, you have to repeat the entire process again every
time you want another print - once you've done the digital work, all you
have to do is call up the image and press Print. There is no way I could
afford to have high-quality custom silver prints made on a regular basis
- and I can afford to produce equally high quality inkjet prints.
B. D.
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[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Gomez
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Probably not a joke. Last time I figured the costs for home printing of
digital photos of 4X6 size, it was significantly more expensive than
just taking a roll of film to Costco or Wal-Mart. On the order of
.50/print for digital vs. about .04/print at Costco. Both the figures
above assume starting with a film negative image, and don't include
calculations of the cost of film, developing and the time/effort or
transport involved. Using a from-the-start digital image doesn't much
improve the equation.
Many of the on-line purveyors of prints-from-digital charge more than
the typical traditional film developing shops as well.
Even printing larger size photos isn't in digital's favor, IMO. By the
time one calculates the time and effort involved in getting the photos
edited and corrected to print on a good quality inkjet, and the cost of
expensive inkjet "photo papers" and inks for quality prints, it's a
considerably expensive process.
Where prints from digital begin to make sense, as far as I can see, is
where one wants a large quantity of prints of a single photo. There the
time spent in prepping the work is well-spent, since the finished file
can then be sent to a good printer to be reproduced ad infinitum.
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Scott Gomez
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From: bdcolen [mailto:bdcolen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Subject: RE: [OM] A quick E-1 poll
Printing from digital is WHAT? More expensive than film? This is a joke,
right?
And plenty of stock work is being done at 5mgp.
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