Re: Recommendations Printing Digital Photos

On Sunday 01 December 2002 11:50 am, Ted Guild wrote:
> I'm leaning towards batching up prints to produce and outsourcing the
> operation instead of getting in a circle of camera and printer
> upgrades for years to come.  

My photo epson inkjet does a very nice job, though I hardly ever use it. It
works great with linux now (via cups/kde/gimp), but it's still a hassle.
One of my plans this 4 day weekend was to turn it on and check out the
prints from my newer hi-res fuji. Of course, since I use it infrequently,
by the time I get it going, make sure the drivers are correct, have it
clean itself 3 or 4 times (since I haven't used it in so long) to be
calibrated, make sure that didn't exhaust the ink, and then wait 8 minutes
for every photo, I didn't. Consequently, I only use it for the occasional
8x10. It's nice to have, and inkjet printers are so cheap now-a-days -- the
cost is the ink and paper -- but I too would be more interested in a
good/inexpensive print service then mucking around with it myself.