Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I used the Walgreen printer thing this morning as well. They crop off parts of your image file. I put in a white and black border with photoshop on 16 photos and none of them showed it. David Degner Dante Stella wrote: > Ok... here's the dirt on the 20 cent Walgreen's reprints. I did 243 > of them over two days (someone actually walked in and did 350 today, > they told me). > > Their machine takes CD, SD/xD, CF, and Smartmedia. I would strongly > suggest making a CD of only files you want to print and selecting the > print-all function, because the preview software is a real pain in the > arse. As in manually scrolling, one frame at a time, through the CD > from end to end. The simplest thing to do is to weed first and "print > all once." > > Printing is 300 dpi for 4x6 and 6x8 (don't quote me, but I saw the > manual and it said 1205x1595 for 4x6 prints). The Fuji printing unit > uses a UV-fixed thermal color printer (that was in the book too). > Absolutely no idea how that works, but it doesn't involve ink. > > In black and white, the prints are good - much better in tonality and > sharpness than getting your 135 negs printed on an RA-4 minilab using > that chromogenic black and white paper. Prints have something of a > brownish sepia tone and look like they are doing at least 32 different > shades of grey, more than I can say for the RA-4 paper. > > No idea what the archival life is - I am using them to make proofs > from hundreds of scanned 6x4.5 negs - and I could care less. > > Problems - occasional streaking (cold heads?); grainy blown out skies > can look pretty bad. > > Holds detail well in highlights and shadows. Definitely not FB paper, > but for 20 cents and no mess... well, you can live with it. > > Print time is about 60 seconds for the first; 10 seconds for each > additional. > > Frontier seems to be a little better, but around here, it's six times > the cost per reprint. And there are no Frontier machines available at > 11pm. > ____________ > Dante Stella > http://www.dantestella.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html