Need prints -- good and fast

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Sheldon hypothesizes:

> I may need some prints for a show rather quickly, but I also need them to be
> of high or very good quality. I guess I could print them myself, but I
> can't get any larger than 8x10.
>
> Any suggestions?

Since using the services of a local professional lab are clearly out of
the question -- you would already have considered as much for your
potential hypothetical and rejected it for reasons only you alone know
-- and www.google.com has, at least for the purposes of your
hypothetical, crashed beyond all hope of repair then I guess your
choices are indeed limited to standing on a street corner and asking
random passers-by for advice.

"Hey buddy, spare some time on a large format printer?"

Good luck!

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11x14 to 16x20. Local prices here are outrageous. I live at a resort with
extremely high commercial rents and prices to match Most of the locals
drive 45mi (one way) to get underwear, and the gas prices here are already
over $3 Unless I want to wind up in the poor farm, I'll have to order my
frames over the Net, too. Just looking for a quality web service.

Sheldon

"Gregory Blank" <greg@greg_____photo.com> wrote in message
news:greg-FD1A15.14100719072005@news.verizon.net...
> In article <vvadnWxTYbJsqUDfRVn-1g@comcast.com>,
> "Sheldon" <sheldon@XXXXXXXXsopris.net> wrote:
>
>> I may need some prints for a show rather quickly, but I also need them to
>> be
>> of high or very good quality. I guess I could print them myself, but I
>> can't get any larger than 8x10.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Sheldon
>> sheldon@sopris.net
>
> yes; telling us what size prints you want.
>
> --
> LF Website @ http://members.verizon.net/~gregoryblank
>
> "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
> or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong,
> is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
> to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918

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On 19 Jul 2005 10:47:59 -0700, "eawckyegcy@yahoo.com"
<eawckyegcy@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Since using the services of a local professional lab are clearly out of
>the question -- you would already have considered as much for your
>potential hypothetical and rejected it for reasons only you alone know
>-- and www.google.com has, at least for the purposes of your
>hypothetical, crashed beyond all hope of repair then I guess your
>choices are indeed limited to standing on a street corner and asking
>random passers-by for advice.
>
>"Hey buddy, spare some time on a large format printer?"
>
>Good luck!

Maybe the poster would like the benefit of personal experience in his
search, to weed out the poor from the excellent, the slow delivering
companies vs. the speedy ones, and any personal anecdotes anyone in
the group has to offer...which come to think of it unless you just
like to hear yourself spout off, it's what we all come here for.

I just reread your answer. Nevermind, you are one of the people who
just likes to spout off.

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McLeod wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2005 10:47:59 -0700, "eawckyegcy@yahoo.com"
> <eawckyegcy@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Since using the services of a local professional lab are clearly
>> out
>> of the question -- you would already have considered as much for
>> your
>> potential hypothetical and rejected it for reasons only you alone
>> know -- and www.google.com has, at least for the purposes of your
>> hypothetical, crashed beyond all hope of repair then I guess your
>> choices are indeed limited to standing on a street corner and
>> asking
>> random passers-by for advice.
>>
>> "Hey buddy, spare some time on a large format printer?"
>>
>> Good luck!
>
> Maybe the poster would like the benefit of personal experience in
> his
> search, to weed out the poor from the excellent, the slow delivering
> companies vs. the speedy ones, and any personal anecdotes anyone in
> the group has to offer...which come to think of it unless you just
> like to hear yourself spout off, it's what we all come here for.
>
> I just reread your answer. Nevermind, you are one of the people who
> just likes to spout off.

Fans Of Irony Take Note.

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<eawckyegcy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> McLeod wrote:
>
>> Maybe the poster would like the benefit of personal experience in his
>> search, to weed out the poor from the excellent, the slow delivering
>> companies vs. the speedy ones, and any personal anecdotes anyone in
>> the group has to offer...
>
> Or maybe the poster asked a vague, under-specified, and ill-conditioned
> question and you haven't the reading comprehension skills to notice it?
>
>> which come to think of it unless you just
>> like to hear yourself spout off, it's what we all come here for.
>
> Really? And who voted you Grand Poobah of r.p.d.slr-systems? And
> since you are being a stickler for proper form and technique, maybe you
> can cite the chapter and verse of the sacred Newsgroup Charter that
> allows discussion about photo-labs in an "slr systems" newsgroup?
>
>> I just reread your answer.
>
> The OP probably needed to read it once to figure out what I was saying
> (he may not have liked the package it came in, but the message was
> clearly received). You, on the other hand needed to read it twice ...
> and still missed the point.
>
> QED: you are a half-wit.
>
Twice wit??

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> I may need some prints for a show rather quickly, but I also need them to
be
> of high or very good quality. I guess I could print them myself, but I
> can't get any larger than 8x10.
>
> Any suggestions?

The only online print-house that I've dealt with personally is
www.whcc.com, and they've done terrific work for me at very competitive
rates. It's normally 1-2 days in house, then 2-day shipping, but if you're
willing to pay, they can do rush orders and overnight shipping.

steve

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I've had good results at www.fotki.com
Their prices are low and the prints I've received, both 8x10" and 11 x 14"
seem to be very good quality.
They have got my three recent orders to me by regular mail in about a week.
I don't recall if they offer faster service as I've never needed it.


"Sheldon" <sheldon@XXXXXXXXsopris.net> wrote in message
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> I may need some prints for a show rather quickly, but I also need them to
be
> of high or very good quality. I guess I could print them myself, but I
> can't get any larger than 8x10.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Sheldon
> sheldon@sopris.net
>
>

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eawckyegcy@yahoo.com <eawckyegcy@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Pound sand, my boy. Pound it hard.
>

But really ... the issues isn't the OP's question, it is your response
.... and have shown yourself to be a complete ass. It would have been
better had you just not said a word at all.

--
Thomas T. Veldhouse
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Spammers please contact me at renegade@veldy.net.

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Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

> eawckyegcy@yahoo.com <eawckyegcy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Pound sand, my boy. Pound it hard.
> >
>
> But really ... the issues isn't the OP's question, it is your response
> ... and have shown yourself to be a complete ass. It would have been
> better had you just not said a word at all.

Hm. My mother died a long time ago. And even if she was alive, her
name wasn't "Thomas T Veldhouse". So why do you care whether or not I
have "shown [myself] to be a complete ass"?

Nevertheless, if you do care, thanks oh so much. But I recommend you
just put me in your killfile so my frank, plain, speaking doesn't
offend your sensibilties any further. After all, you don't want to
make an ass of yourself, right?

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"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy71@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Sheldon <sheldon@xxxxxxxxsopris.net> wrote:
>> I may need some prints for a show rather quickly, but I also need them to
>> be
>> of high or very good quality. I guess I could print them myself, but I
>> can't get any larger than 8x10.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>
> http://www.mpix.com. They charge a flat $4.99 to ship and it arrives in
> just a day or two. They are spendy for 4x6" prints however.
>

While I've been finding this thread to be very entertaining, it hasn't
don't much for me except for the last three posters (thank you). And for
those who just say "Google it," that's how you wind up buying a camera from
a dealer who rips you off and never gives you the "deal" you think you are
going to get.