I came to that conclusion a few years ago and have avoided ever buying any printer at all. Between the supplies costs and the regular maintenance nuisance, an in-house printer ain't worth it. If I printed a lot, _maybe_.
What I will do someday here is get a colorimeter that can read paper so I can calibrate my various print houses. Then I know I'll have the most accurate rendition I can get. On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > I was getting ready to start printing 4" X 6" prints off of one of my Epson > printers for 2016 calendars I am in the process of producing, but I had to > buy some ink & paper. > > I've had really good results from Bay Photo & have been pleasantly surprised > at their very reasonable prices on large prints so I checked out their cost > for 4" X 6" prints & found that I couldn't print myself for the cost of > their prints, including postage. With postage, Bay charged me $.30/print. > Using Epson 4" X 6" photo paper would have cost me $.33/print, not even > including the cost of ink! I ordered them last Thursday & they arrived this > afternoon. > > While I like the control I have over my in house printing, I've given > nothing up by having Bay do the work for me. I sent them the highest res > jpegs I could, after I had perfected the images thru Photoshop. I requested > no changes from Bay and the results are every bit as good as I have gotten > in house in the past with out my time to sit by the printer and feed paper > to the machine. > > Just thought others might be interested in my findings. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
