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11/06/2004 06:40:15 AM · #1 |
Ok...so it's 6:30 AM on my day off so what am I doing up, right? Well, my HUGE upstairs neighbor is on a health kick and is apparently running on a treadmill. She seems to go in spurts she'll run on it every day at 6:30 in the morning for a week then stop for 2 months.
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OK...so on to the question. Say I have a bunch of photos saved to a CD and I want to go get prints made up. Where's the best place to go and the best price but still decent quality as well? Also, what size should the photos be if I just want like 5" by 7"?
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11/06/2004 07:47:50 AM · #2 |
| I like the one-hour processing from the wal-mart photo lab. The 5x7's around me are about $1.50 each. as for size, do you mean resolution? resolution for a 5x7 would be best at 1500 x 2100, resulting in 300 DPI. |
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11/06/2004 08:29:43 AM · #3 |
There was a thread a while back about Sam's on line. Otherwise, I used to do my own at WalMart. That way you control the size, amount and you can crop and other stuff. They aren't expensive, but it's been so long ago, I can't remember how much. Also, they might ask if they are your pictures and might ask for some proof. I found that to be pretty intrusive, but they gotta do what they gotta do to keep people from infringing on copywrite issues. I always had the largest size I took on the disk because they can always print smaller but it's not so good to try and enlarge them much.
Maybe get your neighbor to invest in a health club. ;) |
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11/06/2004 08:43:44 AM · #4 |
heh...I'll try that on the neighbor part...
I guess Wal mart it will be. I was just curious and have never printed a single photo I've taken with digital. Even back when I messed around with film (wasn't into photography really) I just would develop the photo, scan it onto the computer then forget about the printed copy.
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11/06/2004 12:14:11 PM · #5 |
If you have a Costco nearby (and are/know a member), try there. I've had really good results with the color/quality, and 5x7 prints are 68 cents. 4x6's are only 14 cents.
150-300 dpi at final print size should give you good results. |
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11/06/2004 01:13:01 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
If you have a Costco nearby (and are/know a member), try there. I've had really good results with the color/quality |
And the color profiles for their printers are known: database |
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11/06/2004 01:24:53 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by yurasocolov:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
If you have a Costco nearby (and are/know a member), try there. I've had really good results with the color/quality |
And the color profiles for their printers are known: database |
I also recommend downloading the Using Printer Profiles page (available as a PDF too), also from Dry Creek Photo.
Of particular interest is the table of actual pixel sizes for various dimensions (and printers), which enable you to compensate for the slight enlargement/trim the printers perform automatically. It's at the very bottom of the page.
This prevents the edge of the photo/border from being trimmed off, or a misaligned white bit of unexposed paper. For example, for a 4x6 at 300 dpi, instead of 1200x1800 pixels, you make it 1228x1818 pixels (mine almost always have a slight border, so the extra are a solid color extension of that) and the "extra" ones are "trimmed" in the exposure. |
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