"Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That's pretty neat. What size do you mostly print - 4x6 or so? JPEG or >TIFF? How do you get paid?
I'll tell you how it worked at the photo shop where I worked in Pittsburgh, as I expect the business model is similar in most other places: There is a business called Fotowire.com; Photofinishing shops sign up with Fotowire, which then serves as an intermediary between the customer and the shop. Fotowire distributes its own free software to customers - it's basically a simplified FTP client that is intended only for photos and only to connect to one FTP server (Fotowire) and hides all the technical details of FTP from the consumer. The consumer installs the software on their machine and uploads any photos they want printed, choosing from any Fotowire-affiliated shop in the country to do the printing. Fotowire forwards the files to the specified shop, which has its own Fotowire download software to simplify the handling of the files. The shop prints the files as they would any others. Then the customers pick up the finished prints at the shop. It's mostly 4x6 stuff and the occasional 5 x 7 that we saw. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
