[ale] OT: printing digital photographs

[Christopher Fowler]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:32:10AM -0400, John Wells wrote:
> Anyway, Wolf Camera is making a small fortune each week from my wife's
> visits to print out the photographs she's taken.  I think on average, a
> 4x6 runs about 40 cents.

Go to Sam's

> 
> Has anyone analyzed whether it's cheaper to buy a printer and print your
> own or to take it to a store and have them do it for you?  I'm thinking
> about forking up the cash for a photo-quality printer, but have to wonder
> if I'll really save any money in the long run, considering ink and paper
> costs.  Course, I don't see my wife's shutterbug tendencies abating
> anytime soon.

If you go to a cheap printer like Sam's then it is cheaper to 
purchase them at Sam's.

> 
> Assuming you can in fact, save money, can anyone recommend a good,
> affordable, quality printer?  I'd like to be able to print 8x10" and down.

With epson you can buy aftermarket ink carts but I've not found any that are
truly as good as the epson units.  The colors always seem off to me.  I've
stoped printing color on my epson and mainly use it for stamps.com  ;).
If we want photos we go to Sam's and have them printed up.  I think the
last batch we did was around 80 pictures at $19 for all of them.  That
is cheap. We normally do 4x6 and the 2 mega-pixel camera we use does a 
great job when printing them at that size.   

http://66.23.198.2/images/Gatlinburg_folder.html

There are pictures from my last trip that wee took over the weekend.  One
option is to place them on the web like I did.  The program I used is a 
Java program called Gallery.  I think I need to replace the java crap with
something else because my collenction of images has grown to 400
images.  It takes Gallery around 1 hour to create the directory tree
for the web. I think there is a perl equivalent.  Gellery will take a 
standard photo and then resize them all to a size that you set.  It
then creates thumb nails for the index pages.  Cool program.  

> 
> Thanks for the input!
> 
> John
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