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How do you get your Digital pics printed?

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Zombie

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Should have seen it coming. GF starts clicking away with my new digicam and her first question is cool, now how do you print it?So...

Do you print them at home, retail store or online print service ?

I don't have a printed never needed one so is it worth it to buy a new printer just to print pictures?

If the option is retail store then which one? How does it work? Do I take the flash card and they download the pics from there? Which store gives the best quality with reasonable rates?

If its online what site? How does the shipping work? Price?

What would be a reasonable rate for prints? I see 0.29 cents/print in stores is that good?

thanks
 
If you have a high quality color printer and some glossy photo paper it should look pretty good. Otherwise you can take a CD to the local photo-mat style store and have them printed on the spot at one of those kiosks.
 
Zombie,

The quality of walmart prints ($.29 or whatever they are now) are JUST fine! Even their 8x10"'s turn out pretty well. For larger prints I use WHCC and have had prints up to 24x30" in size turn out pretty darn well.
 
Originally posted by: Rias
Zombie,

The quality of walmart prints ($.29 or whatever they are now) are JUST fine! Even their 8x10"'s turn out pretty well. For larger prints I use WHCC and have had prints up to 24x30" in size turn out pretty darn well.
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For the 24x30 prints, what resolution did you shoot them in, if you don't mind me asking?

I use Walmart's photo printing service normally. 3MP shots make good 8x10s. I bought my mom an HP Photosmart printer, as she does scrapbooking and the odd size photos she prints are easier to do at home. Get good paper, it's expensive, but worth it. She had a photo of my grandfather's army unit that had some stains on it, she retouched it in photoshop and printed them out on the 1315 on good HP paper, then gave them to her brothers and sisters. I thought she had taken them somewhere to get them printed professionally they looked so good.

The photosmart was a steal at just under $150, ink is not cheap (no generic cartridges either) but you can usually get decent deals on two packs from staples.

 
Originally posted by: Rias
Zombie,

The quality of walmart prints ($.29 or whatever they are now) are JUST fine!
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I just used Walmart for the printing of my digital photos, and they turned out great. They were also done in less than an hour🙂 (I heard Sam's Club uses the same photo/printer but costs $.26...)

To take my photos to walmart, I burned all the photos I wanted printed onto a CD-rw and just handed it to them. They returned it to me with my pictures. They take CD-r, CD-rw, compact flash, smart media, zip disks, and floppys (that would hold like 1 picture hehe).
 
Originally posted by: djheater
Walmart.

$0.23 a print online.

Kind of need good upload though, if the pics are quality or a lot. Or time....
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AND no shipping if you pick up the photos at a Walmart store. I think they said it takes them a few days to get it to the Walmart near you.
 
I bought a Cannon i850

I buy my Cannon Photo paper here databazaar free shipping

I buy my ink cartridges at megatoners


I cant stomach paying 30 cents a print (wallmart/target/local photo shop) althought I probably am paying the same amount after buying all these.

at least I have the freedom to print what I want and how I want it.
 
Originally posted by: MrBond
Originally posted by: Rias
Zombie,

The quality of walmart prints ($.29 or whatever they are now) are JUST fine! Even their 8x10"'s turn out pretty well. For larger prints I use WHCC and have had prints up to 24x30" in size turn out pretty darn well.
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For the 24x30 prints, what resolution did you shoot them in, if you don't mind me asking?
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Just the resolution of the Canon G2 (2272x1704) 4MP camera. With resizing and some photoshop fidling you actually get some REALLY nice pictures. Of course you can't expect to go up close on the print and expect it to be sharp, but with viewing a picture like that from 4-5' away you can't tell it was made with a digital camera.

I've just got my hands on a Canon 10D and I will try the 20x30" tomorrow to see how improved they are.
 
I have an alps md5000 ... possibly the greatest invention in photo printing evar! but damn those ink ribbons are expensive as hell. and support is nonexistent nowadays.

Dammit....just thinking about it makes me want to go and buy another photo printer.

 
chemical process owns inkjets especially for small photos (<11x14). If you want stuff to put in a photo album, call your local 1hr photo and email them the photo. Prints should be relatively cheap. Otherwise, you can go to snapfish.com, they also do pretty decent chemical prints from digital files.
 
i don't think they can..... do you mean dye-sub?

i use my canon s820. excellent results. a bit expensive compared to walmart, but don't have to deal w/ the crappy upload system (and my local walmart is 20 minutes away, and incompetent w/ cds). I'd only go that way if i had a bunch of pictures to print. if walmart were closer, and more reliable, i'd go that route.
 
25¢ at Sam's Club... they come out great. I actually sent a set of pictures to both Sam's Club and Sony's printing service (which was twice the cost). Everyone that I showed the pictures to agreed that Sam's pictures looked better.
 
I take mine to the local Walmart. At mine they have this machine that takes CD's, floppies, and all types of memory cards. You stick your pictures in the machine, tell it which files you want printed and what size, and it makes a ticket. Put the ticket in a one hour photo envelope, drop the envelope in their bin and come back an hour later and you have your prints.
 
get mine developed at costco.. $.19 . but also got a canon i850 so that's my standby if i dont feel like going out.
 
Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald
chemical process owns inkjets especially for small photos (<11x14). If you want stuff to put in a photo album, call your local 1hr photo and email them the photo. Prints should be relatively cheap. Otherwise, you can go to snapfish.com, they also do pretty decent chemical prints from digital files.
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care to elaborate on a digital chemical process? i'm curious as to what this is.
 
- Walk into local Harris Teeter grocery store (2 minutes from my house)
- Find Sony PictureStation
- insert compact flash card
- choose pictures to print
- print them out

Costs a bit more than Wal*Mart...but convenient and quick (never a line either...)
 
So far I print them at the Kodak printing kiosks. Quality is ok but sounds like Snapfish is cheaper per print.
 
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