Comparing Prints
Introduction I flew back to the UK last month. I had taken a few nice photos (digital) in Idaho (see prior posts) and at the time I sought out a local shop to get larger prints made of some of them. I contacted an outfit in Spokane and after a little effort on their website got some photos uploaded to be printed as 8x10s for test prints. A week or so later they arrived in the post and I immediately thought yeech!. They all had this strange green tint. Now these were C-prints and I have never really had trouble with C-prints as it is a pretty mature technology. I hemmed and hawed about contacting them as some of this is quite subjective. Finally, I decided to call and was put in touch with the owner who said she would check. She called later in the day and agreed they had a process problem. She said it would take a few days to sort out. I went away on a week-long camping trip and completely forgot she was supposed to send new prints. It took another ...