>In the case of printing on an inkjet at home, vs printing on a Frontier
>photoprinter at Sam's Wholesale Club, the issue is time AND money. I
>can get 100 pictures printed at Sam's in about 1.5 hours at 14 cents
>each. Printing them at home would take much longer, and then I would
>have to cut them apart, AND I wouldn't know how long they might last.
As a test I lit up my 60 inch plotter and printed out a linear foot of 4x6
prints (18 in total) process and print took about 2 minute (I use Posterjet
RIP that starts printing in 7 seconds - its a beautiful thing)
as for cutting the images apart... keep in mind I have a large format plotter
therefore have a large format cutter (I do understand the same is not true for
your average user) so the cutting took 3 minutes. I did forget to mention the
2 minutes I waited for "drying time" We will just say that the whole process
took 10 minutes (but thats an over shot).
So doing the basic math that would be roughly 100 images per hour, but
realistically I could probably produce more like 200 in an hour.
One interesting thing to note, i am able to print my Canon D-60 images in a
native 512 dpi vs a resampled 300 dpi (if not less) used by the likes of a Fuji
Frontier. it would seem to me that this would create a "better" overall image.
i will have to do a print and compare.
So the more I am looking at this the more I personally am seeing that I have
been wasting my time in the last few years and outsourcing my 4x6 prints. (a
liner note here, where I live, Sams Club charges .19 cents a print.)
Again I can understand that my curcumstances are different than most here. Not
everyone has a large format studio at thier disposal.
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