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Not at all? In a professional lab? At home, on your photo printer? If the latter, which one have you got? Ink, or maybe dye-sublimation? |
Another digital photographs thread - how do you print them?
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UncleLou wrote:
Not at all? In a professional lab? At home, on your photo printer?
If the latter, which one have you got? Ink, or maybe dye-sublimation?
Once you have a reasonably good colour printer, and decent paper (you can get paper more or less anywhere that is specially for photos), it prints fine.
Though the Kodak stands seem handy, you simply insert your data stick into them and select the different layouts etc. I havent used one yet though -
I haven't read this, but the article seems to be helpful
http://www.time.com/time/techtime/200401/printer.html -
rhythm wrote:
Asda or Boots whenever they've got an offer on. I'm usually near a PC so don't feel the need to print anything but the better pics, so I stockpile them until an offer appears.
Does it cost much to print them? -
Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agoProfessionally, from Costco. Best quality, cheapest prices.
I just think it costs too much to run a photoquality printer, and even then you'll never get the same quality as a professional print.
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ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 20 years agoBoots are doing 50 pics for £5 at the moment and they look rather good.
I have a thermal wax postcard printer that does photo like postcard size pictures. Excellent quality but expensive to use. -
Hmm, I'm going to Galway for a few nights then, so shall try printing via Boots then .gif)
It is quite expensive using at home, as you have to get the paper, and the ink (flies through ink).
Edited by BravoGolf at 10:20:08 20-07-2004 -
ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 20 years agorhythm wrote:
Are they doing that again? That's the deal I went for - absolutely great looking prints and well worth it IMO
Apparently the Boots offer is a mimimum of 50 piccies for 10p each. -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoSling 'em into boots and get 'em done on nice glossy photo paper for 22p a print.
My home printer could probably do 'em but it eats ink like forumites eat strange spongey orangey biccie/cake things
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Jessops are also doing 50 prints for £4.99 at the minute - on until the end of August, iirc.
Question:
I've never had any digital photos printed at a shop. Do they read the photos straight off your card and give it back to you, or do they keep your card until the photos are done?
Question 2:
Anyone used the 'automatic' machines that have recently appeared in Boots? You plug in your memory card and 'do' the photos yourself. They come out instantly and then you pay for them at the counter. Are they any good? -
ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 20 years agoBlerk wrote:
Question:
I've never had any digital photos printed at a shop. Do they read the photos straight off your card and give it back to you, or do they keep your card until the photos are done?
In Boots you give them the card, they copy off the images to a PC and give the card back there and then. -
Ah, that's good then. Didn't want to be without my card for three days or whatever. -
ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI have one of these which produces nice glossy photographs: -
http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Printers/Direct_Photo/Card_Photo_Printer_CP-200/
Its expensive to run but produces good results and very convenient for one off copies. -
ssuellid wrote:
I have one of these which produces nice glossy photographs: -
http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Printers/Direct_Photo/Card_Photo_Printer_CP-200/
Its expensive to run but produces good results and very convenient for one off copies.
That's exactly the one I have cast an eye on. It's not a thermal wax printer, is it, but a dye sublimation printer. Or do you actually have two printers?.gif)
So how high are the running costs, roughly?
Edited by UncleLou at 10:49:08 20-07-2004 -
striker 2,606 posts
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Registered 20 years agossuellid wrote:
they copy off the images to a PC
That's scary! -
My 2 öre* is to go to a real lab for copying your pictures. The quality of the paper - and the print for that matter - cannot be matched by home printers yet. Their paper stands the test of time, they've been doing it for years and years. Most of the paper you can buy, even the more expensive one will continue to absorbe ink and degrade seriously within a year or two.
Another thing about printing is the colour profile your camera can save in: my Nikon D100 allows 3 different profiles and I'm using the Adobe sRGB which provides more colours than the other two (the default Nikon + Adobe RGB I think). However, the colours are more muted and desaturated which require a touch up in Photoshop before printing, basically making a more abrupt curves setting with a toe and knee.
The results are excellent though, I printed 70 copies yesterday for a fashion/clothes presentation shot recently and the cloth designer (and more important, me (: ) are very very pleased with the results.
* = 100 Swedish öre = Swedish Krona -
Yet another question:
When getting stuff printed at Boots (or wherever) does the resolution of the original image matter?
I've got a handful of images in heeeeeeuge resolution, but the rest are a bit more realistic. Does it matter? -
ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 20 years agoUncleLou wrote:
That's exactly the one I have cast an eye on. It's not a thermal wax printer, is it, but a dye sublimation printer. Or do you actually have two printers?
So how high are the running costs, roughly?
Whoops, dye sublimation it is. IIRC its about 40p a print. -
ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 20 years agorhythm wrote:
Still, I suppose it'd be useful for those "specialist" prints
Its good for near instant prints. The printer is tiny and very portable. -
ssuellid wrote:
UncleLou wrote:
That's exactly the one I have cast an eye on. It's not a thermal wax printer, is it, but a dye sublimation printer. Or do you actually have two printers?
So how high are the running costs, roughly?
Whoops, dye sublimation it is. IIRC its about 40p a print.
Thanks, ssuellid! -
ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 20 years agoUncleLou. Just had a look at the cost of refills and they have an RRP of £9.99 - thats for a 36 prints. So the prints cost about 27p each. I have seen the refills cheaper than that - about £7.00 which brings the cost down to 20ish p a print. Not bad. -
striker 2,606 posts
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Registered 20 years agorhythm wrote:
So that's what they're called now...
ssuellid wrote:
Whoops, dye sublimation it is. IIRC its about 40p a print.
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Still, I suppose it'd be useful for those "specialist" prints -
BYPhotos is where I print mine. I'm going to setup a shop with them so people can buy my photos and print them off.
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