[photo-3d] Not buying a printer

["Jim Harp" <matmail2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>My next APEC III exchange will be monolithic 3-digital photographic
>prints.  They would have been submitted in the current exchange but
>the film processor screwed up on the cropping. Otherwise, the quality
>and price is excellent.

Were your digital files slightly enlarged when printed?  This happens
everytime I submit a Photoshop file to be printed on the Fuji 370,
regardless of the file's resolution.  Moto-Foto says this is unavoidable. My
solution for now is to include a border in my files and then trim away any
excess.  I'm curious to hear if anyone knows where to get a file sized 4" X
6" printed at that exact size on a Fuji 370 or other inexpensive consumer
digital system.


> P.S. - Online printing places didn't seem to be any cheaper than using my
>>        own printer (not counting capital costs).
>
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> Cost's me about 33 cents per 4x6 print. And that's not even with the specials
> they sometimes have. Can you beat that?

Printer technology is progressing so quickly that for me it makes more sense
to get prints done on  Moto-Foto's 370 than to drop a few hundred bucks on a
printer that will be obsolete within a year and have little resale value.
It would be interesting to do a comparison factoring in costs of printer
cartridges (overpriced rip-offs that they are)  photo paper and capital
costs, which IMO must be factored in for the comparison to be valid.   Jim
Harp