I stopped printing my own over a year ago and just upload them to one of the
local labs. Better quality, lower price. Woo-hoo!
I have a still-in-a-sealed-box Canon multi-function printer in my basement.
If you're interested in buying it, let me know and we'll work out a deal.
Still under a CompUSA extended warranty. ;o)
Between $4 "photo ink jet" printers (that require $50 worth of ink carts)
and chimping, it's easy to see why independent labs are drying up and
blowing away.
ScottGee1
On 4/28/06, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Very interesting. I didn't know that about Fuji and Konica. I've
> noticed some of the drug chains lately advertising that they can do
> prints cheaper than your ink jet. For most folks it's probably better
> quality too despite the fact that most drug store prints have never been
> particularly good.
>
> They should all start to educate folks on the danger of losing their
> digital images. That could markedly increase the print business if
> people really understood how vulnerable their digital images are
> (including all their other digital files). I'm afraid that 50 years
> down the road we'll find there's a paucity of amateur images available
> from this period.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Bill Pearce wrote:
>
> >
> > A recent report in the photo trades indicated that an expanding market
> is
> > the making of chemical prints from digital camera files. It seems that
> the
> > average P&S customer has just in the last year discovered that it is
> > possible to download files to their local Waalmart or Walgreens, and get
> > nice, shiny prints. Prthaps Kodak will have the last laugh, since Fuji
> and
> > Konica have shut down their USA paper coating facilities.
> >
> > Bill Pearce
>
>
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