Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/22

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Subject: [Leica] Obtaining Color Prints
From: Doug Herr <Telyt@compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 22:42:03 -0400

Bud Cook wrote:

>>>
Now there is a third option (digital) but that's not cheap either if the
goal is to have better than drug store quality results.

So where do LUGgers get prints made?  At what price?  What kind of quality
are you getting?

TIA,
Bud Cook
<<<

Bud,

I've had the same problem since I love the colors, exquisite detail and
longevity of a decent Kodachrome and until I went digital there was nothing
that could give me the quality I wanted.  I have several chromes which, due
to a variety of factors, were unprintable (IMHO) before digital.  The
processes I've tried included Kodalux, custom Cibachromes, home
Cibachromes, custom type-C via interneg, and the closest I got before
digital were the home Cibachromes.  The digital prints, even from a 4-ink
printer, blow the Cibas away.  Digital prints of Kodachromes made with
Leica glass are mind-boggling.

The standard Kodak PhotoCD scans have been more than adequate for prints up
to 8x10, costing about $3 per scan plus $10 for a disk that can store scans
of 100 images.  I already had Photoshop, but the Photo Deluxe software
bundled with many printers will do a good job too.

Doug Herr
Sacramento
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt