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WalMart and jpeg printing
On my Macintosh, I converted a friend's wedding photo from tiff to jpeg
and burned it to a CD for a friend so she could have WalMart make it into Christmas cards. I mailed it off to her, and three weeks later she called and said WalMart did a test print and it "doesn't look right." I have no idea what she means; her description over the phone didn't help me at all. (She lives several hours away, so I can't just drop by to see it.) She said she took it to KMart and Staples also--same problem. While on the phone I suggested she try opening it on her PC, but she got an error message ("jpeg file has errors" or something like that). I tried it in my daughter's Windows 98 PC and I get the same error message. But it opens fine on my husband's PC at work (with Windows XP). And of course it opens and prints fine on my Mac. I burned a new CD and went to my local WalMart to test it. It showed up on the photo machine screen, but I didn't do a test print. (Am I correct in assuming that if I could see it on the WalMart screen it would probably print correctly? I've never used one of those photo machines.) I plan to mail it to her tomorrow, but I just remembered that I converted to jpeg from a (tiff) cmyk file. Should I have converted it from the RGB version instead--or does the color space not matter when converting to jpeg? |
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