Trigger Fish at the Segontium/Missouri

[John Gulliver]

Having prints made from a CD is always expensive.
The price for CD + prints sounds reasonable. You might consider doing what I do, i.e. just have the pics put on a CD and make your own "prints" on your computer printer after cleaning the images up. The computer-printed prints won't keep as well but you'll have better images to show your friends as the prints of the original images from the lab may have quite a bit of back-scatter and won't be cropped, i.e. you'll probably have a lot of uninteresting background.

[Mark Davies]

<font color='#000080'>Peter/John,

Did you know that you can get photo images from your computer transferred to print via the internet? I'd suggest that you first get all your images on disc, take them home and refine them a little, and then select the ones you like best and just get those printed. It saves loads of money that way.

Jessops provide this service on .http://download.pixology.com/jessops/index.htm. Prices vary as there are regular offers on and you can get prints in various sizes, from 6&quot; x 4&quot; right up to 15&quot; x 10&quot; (big enough to put up on your wall!). They come for as little as 10p per print (but usually around 34p when there's no offer on).
The quality (at least from my digital images) is excellent. It's a quick service too - I usually receive my prints the day following my order.

[John Gulliver]

Yes, thanks, Mark, I did know that. I haven't bothered to do it yet as I still find it fascinating to have my pics on my computer and view them as a slide show but I may have a print or so made in due course. The only thing I've wondered is whether I can use electronic transfer to get prints made of the high resolution images (mine range from 100 to 300 kb). Perhaps you can answer that. I don't see a lot of point in having prints made of low resolution images.

[Mark Davies]

<font color='#000080'>Yes John, as far as I know you can. It would seem they can reproduce any image stored in your computer. If it's high resolution I would imagine they'd produce a better print.

As I say, I've only used it to get prints taken from my digital camera which has 4.1 megapixels (some images up to 1.45 mb). Even in the largest format available (15&quot; x 10&quot the print quality is superb with no graining or pixilation whatsoever.

Prints that size cost only £1.50, so I find it a brilliant way to produce pictures big enough to put up on my wall.

It's not expensive, and with your first order you get 10 prints free, so why not give it a go and see what the results are like?

[Justin Owen]

The images posted are scanned from prints... I would usually get them straight on to CD but it takes 3/4 days...

They were taken with an MX5-MKII. No close up lense...