----- Original Message ----- From: "wendy beard"
Subject: photo printing rant
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 think Kodak is doing itself a tremendous disservice at the moment. We have three machines out on the sales floor, two send work to the photo lab, one sends work to a built in dye sub.
The problem is, the head ends on them are identical enough that there is no real differentiation to what the customer is getting until the end of the process.
I would like to see the dye sub process go away. It is expensive, the quality is very questionable, the prints have the esthetic qualities of a three days dead gopher on the side of the road, and they will often fade as fast as that dead gopher gets his bones picked over.
Wow, that was a colourful metaphor. But I digress, as always.
Anyway, it is possible that the Wal-Mart has a terminal that sends to the lab, but it looks the same as the kiosk.
One thing with the Noritsu labs, they are most comfortable working with sRGB files, so get used to that colourspace.
William Robb
