I don't think you can expect to get good prints from mass marekters. Yeah, there are exceptions. If you go to Bill Robb's store, I'm sure you can get a nice print. But by and large, it isn't going to work. What's the problem with your printer? I can make prints on my Epson 2200 that are the equal of any pro lab in town. Paul
> Photo finishing here is just getting worse! > I had just prepared an 8x10 for an agility friend. It was a photo I had > taken in September of "Jake", a Belgian Tervuren. Only a month later, the > dog died. > It was important to me that I made the best print I could. I have been > having problems recently with my Epson 2000P so decided to try a few local > photo printing places. Up until the end of last year I had been using an > independent lab downtown with good results. They have since been taken over > by a local chain and the last lot of prints I took there all had some sort > of staining on the edge of the paper. I have tried Blacks but they alway > make prints too contrasty and too saturated. Which brings me to Photolab in > Loblaws' stores. My daughter works there part time so I gave her a CD to > take in and print off for me to see what sort of a job they did. She called > me from work to tell me they'd run out of paper to print 8x10s and hadn't > had any in since last week! Then she asked if she should take the file over > to Walmart in her break. I said OK, try it out, if it's not much good then > I haven't wasted too much money. She rang back again in a strop "Walmart > are being stupid" she said. (don't you just love teenagers :-) ). > Apparently they wanted her to use the kiosk to print her own out. She was > not impressed and informed me that they had one of those kiosks in the > Loblaws store where she worked and the paper was "crap" and so were the > prints. > I have to agree with her assessment of these kodak photokiosks. I did the > same exercise just over a year ago with three other one-hour-photo places > close to where I live or worked (the best had turned out to be a Photolab > in Loblaws over the river in Quebec) and the photo kiosk was one of the > things I tried out. > > I don't consider myself picky but this printing is driving me insane! > > > Wendy Beard, > Ottawa, Canada > http://www.beard-redfern.com > >
