My nephew graduated from high school this June and my brother, in a
senior moment, grabbed his Canon AE1 and loaded a roll of slide film
rather than print film. The machine prints that were made by the
photofinisher near him were moderately awful, so he sent them to me
to see what might be done.
I did the usual scan and Photoshop rescue effort and, looking for a
cheap and easy way to get them printed, dropped full rez JPEGs into
iPhoto and ordered two sets of 4x6s through the Apple online service.
$0.19 per print.
The completed order arrived in the mail less than 48 hours later and
I have to give them credit: they were better quality prints than I'd
expected, and significantly better than what I got the last time I
use the local Wolfe Camera photofinishing service from similar
originals.
Godfrey
On Aug 19, 2005, at 12:59 AM, Bob Shell wrote:
The magazine I work for these days, Digital Camera Magazine, wants
to do a roundup and comparison article on the on-line printing
services. I'm not writing it, but I offered to help the writer by
getting some opinions.
I'd appreciate feedback from people who have used such services for
ordinary printing jobs, which I'll define as 4 X 6 up to, say, 8
1/2 X 11 prints. I'm primarily interested in print quality, but
speed of service is also an issue. Since we're a USA publication,
we're interested in services in the USA.
Thanks in advance for your feedback on this.
Bob
