Re: [PLUG] Making prints from a digital camera

[Todd Yocum <odye@bellatlantic.net>]

Kyle,

I've tried a couple local print shops, but found the
quality unsatisfactory, personally.

If you've got the bandwidth or patience, I highly recommend
any number of sites online. You upload to them, and then
can order typically high-quality prints. 4"x6" is 50 cents from
www.ofoto.com, for example, plus $1.50 shipping(so try to bundle
your orders, obviously). And the best part is, for any of your
internet enabled friends, they can order their own pics. : )

I've only tried ofoto so far, from which I have 100 free prints
for starters, but there must be a good dozen sites out there(shuttefly,
zing, etc).

					Todd

Kyle Burton wrote:
> 
> I've collected quite a number of digital pictures since I obtained my
> digital camera.
> 
> I've had some requests from people for actual physical prints (that are like
> the kind you get when you develop actual film [4x6]).
> 
> Last night I went to the camera shop in KofP and made some prints.  These
> turned out to be very nice looking for pictures that were taken at 1600x1200,
> and fairly nice for 800x600 pixel shots.  The employees at the camera shop
> just had me use the Kodak Image Magic (tm) kiosk -- which accepted floppy
> disks (but not an iso9660 cd -- it would only take a kodak picture cd,
> which I assume has a special directory structure/file layout).
> 
> Anyway, these prints were limiting -- you had to print an 8x10, and it
> cost $11.00, which is a bit expensive for a single print IMO.  You could
> make multiple prints on a page (1 8x10, 2 4x6 + 1 3x5, 4 3x5s, etc), but
> you couldn't put more than 1 different picture on a page.
> 
> My question to the list is, where (other than the camera shop) can photo
> quality prints be made.  I'm looking for flexibility, and cheapness.
> 
> Any and all information/comments will be appriciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kyle
> 
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