[ale] OT: printing digital photographs

[Kevin Krumwiede]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:32:10 -0400 (EDT)
"John Wells" <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:

> My wife has gone picture crazy since our daughter arrived.  I bought a
> digital camera around the same time, thinking I'd save $$, but I think
> it's just allowed her to snap away indiscriminately ;-).

The idea with digital is to take lots of pictures, then only print the good ones... :o)


> 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

You pay for the convenience of doing them at home.  The portable printers from Canon and Polaroid run upwards of $1 a print!  Inkjets are cheaper, but still expensive.  And you won't get the quality you can get at Wolf or even Wal-Mart.  With inkjet prints, the ink is on the surface where it's exposed to air and moisture.  They'll be faded in 15-20 years.  Will you still have the digital file?  If you get them done on a Fuji Frontier printer at Wolf or Wally World, your images will be "printed" with lasers onto the same kind of wet-process paper used to print negatives.  Those prints will last a hundred years or more.

Krum
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