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| Thread ID: 66680 | 2006-03-03 23:23:00 | Developing Digital Pics? | kiwimate27 (9833) | Press F1 |
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| 435399 | 2008-02-09 22:50:00 | For small prints do not print yourself if you want to save money. I buy a lot of stuff from B+H (New York) cos $$ here and limited stuff available or just not available here, to use the shipping price adv I may add some photo papers - A4 and A3 width roll papers but A3 sheets is too $$ for postal. Basically the ink and paper cost, cost like 2x here compared to the USA. I was at Harvey Norman and looked at the std glossy papers 6x4 - 25 sheets they want $28. That is over $1 for each, not counting your time and your ink cost. That is not the premium stuff either, that will be more. I still like the lab prints cos glossy papers from them for me looks and feel unique. For home prints for my personal use and club work, I print min A4 and A3 and use real matte papers or fine art papers or luster paper. Even if you get (premium) glossy paper A4 - 50 sheets is like $90 (Computer Food) which is repotedly one of the cheaper ways to buy paper. Round it to $100, for one A4 is $2, if you print 4 pix (slightly smaller than 6x4) on the A4, that is like 50c. Many labs print 6x4 for you less than that. Again, you have not counted the ink cost or your own time cost. If you got real matte paper they tend to be half price so the paper cost still about 25c still not that great. As I have read in the USA you can get access to Costco for like $2 A4 prints and $3 A3 prints ? ;) In US$. FWIW I use frogprints for 29c per 6x4 and printed in a real photographic paper - Fuji Archive Crystal like the labs - good old prints that you can hand over to friends and family. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 435400 | 2008-02-10 03:33:00 | Harvey Norman have got a special on 6 x 4 prints till the 17-02-08, 15 cents each. Cheapest yet, (in Blenheim). | BobM (1138) | ||
| 435401 | 2008-02-10 20:50:00 | Bah!, they use Fujiflim paper!, Is that good or bad? If bad then what is good? I'm still waiting for an answer, Stu. :rolleyes: |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 435402 | 2008-02-10 21:04:00 | Normally cheap = Nasty Get one control print printed first & examine the quality. A lot of the quality is to do with the persons experience etc that is doing the printing. Completely automated systems don't cut it! As a professional photographer I wouldn't touch the cheap labs. They have never been able to match the quality you expect after enhancing/ manipulating an image in Photoshop for an hour or more! |
fnphoto (2434) | ||
| 435403 | 2009-01-13 22:38:00 | An excellent site i have found living in Auckland is digitalpro. 20 cent 6x4" prints and excellent quality printed in a photography lab, try to avoid instant prints as they have low quality Take around three days arrive also, the best thing is you can upload all you pictures at once without downloading anything to your home computer. |
Photog (6247) | ||
| 435404 | 2009-01-13 23:48:00 | I have a couple of Epson printers I print to R800 and R1900, they work out at a reasonable cost but probably not as cheap as likes of Frog Prints etc. I just print on my Epson's due to convenience as much as anything. I also have a Kodak Photo Printer and that one is worse, the prints on that work out at just over $1 each, although the quality is better than the Epson Inkjets. The Kodak is part of a Dock printer for a Kodak camera. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 435405 | 2009-01-13 23:51:00 | Harvey Norman have got a special on 6 x 4 prints till the 17-02-08, 15 cents each. Cheapest yet, (in Blenheim). I did have a few printed at Harvey Norman Botany a while back. It was on very thin paper and not good quality at all, my Epsons do a better job. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 435406 | 2009-01-14 01:44:00 | Ok, I will join in here, I use Snapfish.co.nz, get pics delivered to closest pharmacy to pick up or delivered home with NZ credit card, and I also have used fotoprint, no complaints about either, but not sure how much they are, as I have only gone for large print. | supergran (108) | ||
| 435407 | 2009-01-14 02:21:00 | If you want to save money, I would buy a photo printer I wouldn't unless you don't care about keeping them forever. Harvey Norman and DSE both have specials every now and then. 12 - 15c per photo. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 435408 | 2009-01-14 04:41:00 | My wife and I take a lot of digital photos. I am quite happy to look at them on the computer but my wife likes to make up albums. Her solution is to wait for Harvey Norman to have a special (12c/print recently), load up a USB key with 200 prints, (the normal limit) and have a session on the photo machine. Her opinion is the HN editors are superior to others she has tried. If she has more than 200 she goes back a little later. Print quality seems adquate so far, and at $12/100 you can't complain about the price. | PPp (9511) | ||
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