SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

Do you feel better about your manhood now? Oh, and it’s “grammar”.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

He's new here... 222 posts. I'll give him a pass for inexperience.

BebuLamar

I go to Walmart for prints. It's cheap and I get it quick, less than 1 hour. Quality is OK. I took my own passport photo and Walmart prints them Never got rejected. I don't care but my wife like it better as she can have me take the picture the way she likes it.

BebuLamar

If I have to order online and wait for them to ship to me perhaps I don't use Walmart. My #1 reason for using Walmart is that I can get it in 1 hour or less.

coolhanduke Loc: Redondo Beach, CA

You are correct, none of the drug stores or big box stores do chemoal prints any longer.
It is all ink jet technology which has come a long way in regards to longgevity..
You will find some independents that do.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

How do you know you're not a successful photographer until a clerk at Walmart refuses to print your images?

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

It’s not even grammar. It’s just spelling, maybe a typo.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

He’s been a member longer than you and almost twice as long as me. I just find it hilarious when someone is so petty about calling someone out for a grammar/spelling mistake, (and this was actually spelling and not grammar), and they selves make a mistake in their post.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Ink jet technology has been better than silver halide for both color gamut and print stability for over 20 years. Back then, it was five times more expensive, and slow to operate, but for some applications, it was worth it. In 2003, I attended a PMAI show, visited the Epson booth with our VP, and we put an Epson 9600 Ultrachrome printer in the lab two months later. It uses pigment ink that can last over 200 years in dark storage, or 80-100 years under glass. Kodak Portra Endura prints we made in 2003 have already faded noticeably. Inkjet prints made on the 9600 look like the images displayed on my calibrated monitor!

Our primary goal for that printer was to produce 60" by 40" composites of senior classes, fraternities, bands, and other large groups. When we saw the very first prints from it, our plans changed! That $5000 Epson 9600 replaced 11 specialty low-volume optical printers that were a pain to keep in control. Those old printers had been in use since the mid-1950s, and one of them (a military-grade 10x10 enlarger) pre-dated World War II. We saved nearly $100,000 in labor, paper waste, and chemistry during the first year the Epson was in service.

Inkjet photos require photo quality media and photo quality inks. The technology got a bum rap from consumers who bought early office printers and watched as their prints faded in weeks. They were using cheap dye inks and plain paper most of the time. A real inkjet photo paper print made with pigment inks will look better, longer, than any silver halide chromogenic (color) print.

Inkjet's tarnished reputation is why early high-end print service bureaus used the French word, 'giclée' to describe photo- and art-grade inkjet prints. For at least a decade, such shops refused to mention that they were making inkjet prints.

We actually had to "dumb down" the color of the Epson 9600 and later Epsons to the color gamut of our Noritsu mini-labs that used chromogenic paper and chemistry. Prints from all our silver halide chromogenic devices looked dull and lifeless next to the Epson prints. My reaction to complainers was, "The Epson output costs five times per square foot what the Noritsu output does, and takes five times longer to produce. You get what you pay for." The school portrait business was high volume. Our lab cranked out up to a quarter million packages of prints per week in peak season, from 40 digital mini-labs. The Epson output was about .005% of that.

coolhanduke Loc: Redondo Beach, CA

One should check their post (me) to see if spell check changed something.

My sister on Easter sent me greetings, Christine has risen (she happens to have a daughter Christine), instead of Christ has risen.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Thats funny. The computer “correction” could indeed have been factually correct as her daughter may have just woken up. LOL.

coolhanduke Loc: Redondo Beach, CA

Yes. lol!

coolhanduke Loc: Redondo Beach, CA

Some people just have too much time on their hands and are not intelligent enough to know, we do not make these errors on purpose but bigger powers control our typing.

Now THATS hilarious!!!

stan0301 Loc: Colorado

Walmart doesn’t like their printers to break - so they lease a good quality printer - IF you send it a good quality image you will get back a good quality print

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Plus OSHA and pollution issues.