There has been a lot of enthusiasm from time to time on the Nikon forum
at dpreview for
http://www.ezprints.com/
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Mar 7, 2005, at 8:12 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Barry asked:
> Can anyone direct me to a good primer on digital photo printers? I'd
> like to be able to run photo-quality prints up to 11X14 or so from my
> office, and need recs on labs to do work in the 20X30 range.
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> As did Moose, I'd recommend the R1800. I've never used one but have
> plenty of experience with the predecessor 2200 which also does very
> nice
> B&W even without special B&W inks.
>
> As to lab work for large prints I can heartily recommend
> <http://www.millerslab.com/> In general, however, Miller's only wants
> pros who are going to give them a minumum $2000/year. You have to
> establish an account with them to do business.
>
> They have recently started a subsidiary consumer side of the business
> at
> <http://www.mpix.com/> I sent some digital B&W to them as a trial and
> it came back much too contrasty. I had them retry twice more until
> they
> got disgusted with me and threw up their hands. On the other hand I
> just had them do 4 rolls of mixed color film and send 4x6 prints and a
> CD of the scans and that work was very nice. They tell me that the
> printers and daily profiling of the machines are the same as parent
> company Millers. If you want to send film as well as digital you can
> order mailers. However, software people they are not. Their digital
> image review process for ordering prints from scanned film is totally
> the pits. The tell me they are working on it. Anyhow the CD scans are
> 1200x1800 and the prints are nice. The easiest thing to do is simply
> have everything put onto the CD and mailed. Review the CD at home and
> then go back on line to do the ordering of prints.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
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