Mark, My lab prints on matte. Go to www.fotowire.com and download their software (free). Choose Snap Photo Imaging in Roseville, CA as the lab. As you pick your images to print, you get to specify matte or glossy. Give 'em a try.
Bruce Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 5:33:23 PM, you wrote: MD> --- Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mark, >> >> The Upshot of this is that I think properly run >> digital labs can rival >> or beat the quality of the home inkjets without any >> problem. MD> That's exactly what I was thinking. I've been inkjet MD> printing for awhile and I've seen lots of inkjet MD> prints made from other photographers and different MD> Epson models. There are alot of issues that come with MD> it, microbanding among others. >> Especially when it comes to volume. Now, in >> reality, what makes home >> printing so wonderful is the digital darkroom >> control that you have. >> With these newer digital labs, now you can do the >> manipulation that >> you want and have them print it. Kind of a nice way >> to go. The >> occasional print you need to do at home based on >> timeliness, you print >> - the rest you send to the lab. Best of both >> worlds. MD> Best of both worlds is right. I'm actually getting MD> much more excited about getting a DSLR. My results MD> were with JPGs from a Canon G2 and I was pretty MD> pleased. I'm looking forward to seeing what I can MD> squeeze out with a better sensor and glass. >> Glad you had a good experience. You can probably >> tell what kind of >> lab they have based on the paper they used. The >> papers are formulated >> to go with their labs - Agfa D-Lab uses Agfa Digital >> Prestige paper, >> Fuji Frontier uses some form of Crystal Archive, >> etc. MD> They're a Kodak lab and the prints were made on Kodak MD> paper. There are a few more ways I'm gonna test em. I MD> want to see what the B&W and sepia output is like from MD> the color images. One thing that I liked is that I was MD> able to paste 5X7 image onto a white 8X10 background MD> and get an 8X10 print that works perfectly with 8X10 MD> matte with 5X7 opening. I'd also like to find an MD> online company that can print onto matte paper. MD> Shutterfly, Ofoto, and PrintatWolf only work with MD> glossy papers. I don't know of any online source that MD> works with matte papers. MD> Mark MD> __________________________________________________ MD> Do you Yahoo!? MD> Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. MD> http://mailplus.yahoo.com
