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Mariah Milan Dagupion
 

Recommendations 4 Professional Digital Photo Lab?


Want to get going in the Digital market of photography and wondering if anyone has any feedback regarding digital labs. I've looked at websites for A and I, and Pro Photo Imaging as well as a slew of others. Has anyone had good experiences with any of these? I do mostly portrait work and want my clients to have professional printing for the amount I charge them! Thanks so much for your assistance!
Mariah D.
www.mariahmilan.com


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January 16, 2004

 

Buddy Purugganan
  Please check out www.imagexperts.com---their office is at 7095 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood CA 90028 and call them 323-874-0624 if possible. Also check www.etronics.com or toll free 800-576-3398 for online expert advice.


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January 17, 2004

 

Davin Edridge
  Hello All,
To this point in time I use Digital Photo Labs with Fuji Frontier systems.
Have tried various labs - and found this system to be the most satifying for me - it will depend upon the size of the images you wish to print as well.
Take the same image on a CD to various Digial Photo Labs in your area and get them to print out the Image (find out first what each photos labs preferred image input is - eg bmp, jpg, tiff, and dpi size - 240 or 300).
This way you can decide for yourself which will give you the best result for your needs. (it has also been my experince that even labs with the same equipment can print different quality images to each other depending upon how they set up their printers).
My only other recommendation is to use bmp file types where possible - same size as a tiff - but strips out all information that the digital lab equipment may read imbeded in the file to cause incorrect colour (australian way of spelling color) in the final printing process.
if they require a tiff image - save it as a bmp then open it up again and save it as a tiff - this will strip all the data in the file you cannot see that can effect your print colour profile etc.
www.davin-photography.com


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January 17, 2004

 
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