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Home printing vs. Lab printing?
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My next question is a two parter inspired by Kodak's announcement today that they are creating more cost efficient printers. The printers use lower costing pigments instead of dyes. They say that pigments last longer than dyes. In addition the cost per 4x6 print will lower to 10 cents/print.
www.dpreview.com/news/0702/07020601kodakallinoneprinters.asp
My question:
1. Does this new development increase your interest in home printing?
2. What lab do you think is best on the market?
For me:
I am very interested in the Kodak development for quick personal prints if the price is indeed lower than my local labs (Wolf and another local lab)
As for the second, I am interested in identifying a good cost efficient lab for my "masterpieces" (don't really have any yet). Would love to hear what others suggest...
Originally posted at 3:10PM, 6 February 2007 PDT
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iceman9294 edited this topic 17 months ago.
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Interesting reading, thanks for finding and posting that.
1: I for one would like a proper home printer for normal money.
2: I've been using Truprint (UK) mail order from 10megapixel JPEGS on CD. which deliver beautiful prints for about 10 pence each or less. They delivered 300 prints for the standard postage rate of bugger-all.
The drawback is that I have no control of how the photos are cropped. Often they come back with a very different composition, where I would be able to print with large borders at home, then crop down.
Using a print service has highlighted that some of my images are on the dark side, leading me to think my monitor must be brighter than avaerage.
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@ snack, my images are always brighter on the monitor. I print at home on a hp 2575 and they always print a bit darker. I would assume I could sort it out with software but I don't have the time.
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This ought to shake up the ink market! Thank you for posting.
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Good question. I still print everything remotely, just because I don't feel like I am that good at it and all that extra equipment + ink + paper at home is something else for me to worry about.
Did you see my blog post about Imagekind? If you come to www.stuckincustoms.com and click on BUY PRINTS, I talk about Imagekind there - I love it!
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brighter images on the monitor?
maybe its because your monitor gives light ,same same dia's do . and your prints doesn't . but just reflected light .
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