I haven't done the math in a while, but the break even point on whether
to print at home or farm it out used to be at about 8x10 inch size. If
you have a printer then the cost per print, for any smaller size is much
higher. You can't print 4x6 or smaller prints as inexpensively as a
good mass lab, and they work with color all the time and usually grantee
their work. (Milford Photo, they charge 16¢ to 19¢ each for bulk orders).
Unfortunately the closest good lab I'll use, the afore mentioned Milford
Photo, is more than 20 miles from where I sit. I'm sure that online
printers do just as good a job, but I like to be able to talk to the tech.
However I /like to print bigger prints myself, anyway.
On 10/13/2015 11:18 AM, Donald Guthrie wrote:
I am interested in your findings. I print more in the winter and it is
time to buy supplies for the Epson. I don't know if I can break the
habit because it is my last link to film days when I developed the
film and printed in the darkroom. Sometimes I think I am only making
proofs for the ones I want to send out for enlargement or metal prints.
On 10/12/15 10:05 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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/kenneth
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