I think this is the machine that my local shop just got in. I will check in the next couple of days.
I have an open invitation to see it in action. I have been meaning to ask if they will give guidlines on submissions or will they just deal with everything as it comes in. Cesar Panama City, Florida -- -----Original Message----- -- From: Bruce Dayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:07 PM -- -- William, -- -- I have to laugh. I am seeing similar problems anytime I go into the -- lab. They have the Agfa D-Labs and people bring in digital work for -- them. I can't begin to count the number of times that someone has -- emailed a small image (600X400) and then asked for an 8X10 print. It -- goes on and on. Most of them are pretty clueless. The most common -- problem is to set their camera to greatest compression and sometimes -- smallest image size so they can fit more on the card. Then they -- wonder why the pictures look so poor. -- -- The biggest problem I see with this is the lab who is doing the -- service is seen as the bad guy rather than the real culprits -- (user and -- manufacturer of the camera. -- -- -- Bruce -- -- -- -- Wednesday, December 18, 2002, 5:31:47 PM, you wrote: -- -- WR> I'm spending this week working in a lab that has digital to -- WR> photo paper printing capability. -- WR> What a gong show. -- WR> First, there seems to be no standards in the industry, and we -- WR> are being asked to support 3 different memory card styles, plus -- WR> microdrives, plus floppies and CDs. -- WR> The people don't seem to have a sniff that they have to have -- WR> minimum file sizes to make prints or that it would be nice to -- WR> have the work in a common format. -- WR> One clever sot actually asked us to make prints from a bunch of -- WR> GIF images today. I guess thats how photodeluxe saves them -- WR> The there was the moron that buried the files he wanted printed -- WR> about 6 levels down from the root directory of his full CD, and -- WR> didn't know the exact filenames for a search. -- WR> Anyway, the people who make this stuff need to do some more -- WR> market research. Maybe try to make digital photography easy. -- WR> Film users can literally aim and shoot, and expect reasonable -- WR> results, with no knowledge base. -- WR> Digital users seem to need a course in rocket science to get -- WR> pictures. -- -- WR> William Robb --
