Re: [Leica] Obtaining Color Prints

["Bud Cook" <budcook@ibm.net>]

Thanks Kent.  One way or another it seems my only real option to the old
Prodovit is digital.

BTW, you are a man of superior tastes....Enfield, Airstream, Rover:-)
Bud
- ----- Original Message -----
From: KPETERS <KPETERS@huntel.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Obtaining Color Prints


> You ought to look into a slide scanner and epson printer.  I scan my
slides
> on an Olympus ES-10 scanner, fairly inexpensive for scanning and print
them
> on an Epson inkjet printer (Photo 1200).  Using the epson photo glossy
paper
> and the software supplied with my scanner, I can get great looking prints.
> To maximize the prints to page I paste all of the prints into my microsoft
> powerpoint program, then print.  I have experimented with other papers and
> the Epson (for me) seems to give the nearest prints to "cibachrome" as
I've
> seen.  It works fine.  I spray these with a protective clear spray and
give
> em to my wife to put in a book or to my daughter to chew on (she's 18
mths).
> !  This is a great combination for making your 'prints' at home!  If you
> have a slide that you're in love with and want larger than 8x10, go for
the
> traditional cibachrome route or consider intranegatives... best of luck.
> Kent