"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote in message
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jeremy wrote:

I am beginning to think that it is time to buy a good inkjet printer and
do
it myself. OFOTO/Kodak Gallery has been producing prints that are not of
their former quality, and delivery on my last 3 orders has taken between
2-3
weeks, from their plant in California to my home in Philadelphia.

Maybe it's time to stop relying upon others and to just do it myself. I
haven't followed the printer market, but I suspect I'll check out Epson,
as
they seem to have the best reputation. I never thought I'd consider
printing my own, but this nonsense of waiting long times and then getting
consumer-quality results is becoming unacceptable.


Most prints made at home with anywhere near lab quality results runs $0.45
to
$1.00 per print, excluding the initial investment of the printer. That is
not
cheap, so consider your options and your needs before you commit.

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Thomas T. Veldhouse
Key Fingerprint: D281 77A5 63EE 82C5 5E68 00E4 7868 0ADC 4EFB 39F0



Well, I don't look forward to paying higher prices, but when the
alternatives are either poor quality or inconsistent quality, what can one
do? When prints begin looking like they came from negs shot in a disposable
camera, it doesn't say much for buying good equipment and using painstaking
technique.

I just got a stack of prints that I uploaded to Kodak Gallery on November 4.
Kodak put the prints into the mail the same day. and they took a full two
weeks to reach me! That is poor.

I'm going to try a couple other online printers, and if they don't work out,
I'll probably just get a printer. That Epson R1800 looks pretty good.

Dale Labs has resumed making online prints. I'll upload a bunch to them and
see how they turn out. In fact, I think I'll upload a few from the batch I
just got back from Kodak Gallery, to compare the differences in print
quality. Dale has always done good work on my film processing and printing,
so let's see. But you're right, I'd really prefer to have it done online if
at all possible.