by self-deleted_user » Oct 31, 2011 10:32 am
So...I have for my own cavejournal just been printing some of my fav from each trip for inclusion. So far using the kodak kiosk at the local cvs has worked fine for this, it printed well and was cheap and easy to do.
But lately (ever since they updated the software on the kiosk)...it's been smeary or it doesn't render the black well at all and prints things "pixilated" even though the resolution is more than fine for even if I wanted enlargements much less the standard 4 x6 size. This last print was extra blue-y too, like, instead of black let's make it navy blue!
Uhm...I don't know where else to print. All the Kodak kiosks in the area have had this software update and are doing this same shitty job in printing. Ideas? I don't want expensive prints for this, but I want them to actually not look like a 4 yr old splattered ink on something and called it a photo. Just the 4 x 6 (or even better, whatever happened to the old 3 x 4 size I've not seen around in ages?). My printer doesn't do a great job with photo printing so that's not an option (and it's why I went to the kiosks in the firstplace)
I did find a camera mart store that you can upload photos online and they'll print them, and then you go pick them up. It's the place I got my flash gun from. Would I maybe have better luck with them? Like would they actually check that what they were printing matched the screen and wasn't blobbyweird and the colours were right and all that? And the dimentions of my photos...I like keeping them even if they aren't the 4x6 size ratio (I dont like how machines crop them - at the kiosks I could edit -> zoom and crop -> zoom out to keep the correct aspect ratio as the original). They aren't too expensive only $0.35/print (kodak machines are $0.20/print). But I worry about not being able to see it...
Ideas?
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