Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Bob, You may care to look at the Hi-Ti site http://www.hitouchimaging.com/ They make great dye-sub printers to fit many photo formats .............. and the prints are reputed/tested to 50 years of "unblemished" storage in the light ............. ideal for that shoe-box of images? Greetings, B. On 4-jan-2006, at 21:03, Robert D. Baron wrote: > Earlier today, Sonny responded to an inquiry from Ted in pertinent > part: > >> I'm gonna keep on shooting film, until I can figure a better way >> to keep the shoe boxes filled with prints instead of digits. > > I've chimed in a time or two before on this subject. I am in > complete agreement with Sonny on this......but I do like to use my > digi Canons and am trying to come up with a middle ground. > > For example, at least once a year I find myself printing a number > of shots of our dogs to send to a friend in the UK. I use a program > called Fotoslate http://www.acdsystems.com/products/fotoslate/ > index that lets me semi-quickly put 4 shots with captions on an > 8.5x11 inch letter sized sheet of Epson Premium Semigloss paper; I > print 2 copies of each page on an old Epson 870 printer that sits > next to my desk (my big Epson 2200 is in the next room) and one set > of the pages goes off to the friend and one set goes in our shoebox > or album. > > Now you might ask, but what about the 'negatives'? Well, how many > of the prints in our old family shoeboxes have negatives with them? > > Last year I bought one of my daughters an Epson PictureMate > snapshot printer to make quick prints from her digisnaps: http:// > tinyurl.com/dga4a and I wonder if maybe I should get one for me as > a quick way to keep the shoe box full. > > Just thinking out loud here..... > > --Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information