Re: Digital Prints at ASDA (UK supermarket)

On 2008-05-03 23:34:41 +0100, Tony B <tony@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> Hi all,
> 
> I tried a Sony fast print machine at my local ASDA store today, the 
> bugger decided that what I really, really wanted was a nice yellow cast 
> on all my finely lit snaps... cue "discussion" with the reprographics 
> expert in store (er, young bint on night****ft, surely??) who was unable 
> to proffer advice on getting the machine to print out my photos as they 
> are rather than how it thinks they should be... it also transpired that 
> there is no-one in the whole of ASDA UK that one can call to discuss 
> their printing process and how it might be tweeked.
> 
> MyMate (tm) advises that the bigmachinebehindthecounter doesn't do 
> yellow casts, unfortunately the bigmachinebehindthecounter is unable to 
> talk USB either so I'll have to fish out my old Compact(hahaha)flash 
> cards out and try again tomorrow.
> Almost unbelievably, the two fifteen stone chavettes getting their 
> smudges printed off of their phones were unable to help with my yellow 
> cast issues. Mind, they had a bizarre orange cast in real life so I 
> suppose they'd look reasonably human following ASDA's autolevelling 
> algorithm...
> 
> What do the rest of the UK do to get decent digital prints?
> 
> T

Either print them myself, or use PhotoBox, got an excellent large 
framed print of a picture for my girlfriend a few months back. Photobox 
can be a bit on the dark side so probably worth doing some test shots 
with them, I think they are still doing 40 free 6x4 prints when you 
sign up which I used for tuning.