Re: Another one bites the dust

On 12/12/2007 7:59 PM jjs spake thus:

> "David Nebenzahl" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:4760277c$0$31559$822641b3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>> Just a little clarification, in case it wasn't clear: There are plenty
of 
>> places around that still make "wet" color prints: they're known as your

>> local drugstore/"photo" store that makes quick prints. The difference
is 
>> that all these processors are "hybrids", meaning that the front end is 
>> digital (scanning negatives), and the print is exposed digitally
(w/laser) 
>> and then wet-processed. [... SNIP generous information ...]
> 
> Our local photo place has always dumbed down printing so that no matter
how 
> sharp prints are, everyone gets the same damned diminished outcome. I
swear 
> they have Artifical Anit-Intelligent software. All their prints have
sucked 
> from the old totally wet days to the scan-to-digtal stuff today.

Well, I have to say that I'm getting pretty good results from my local 
"service provider" (aka Longs Drugs), with their Fuji Frontier. I do see 
the artifacts I mentioned above, but other than that the prints are 
pretty damn good.

Do you know what kind of equipment your people (with their AAI software) 
use? A lot seems to depend on the organism sitting at the controls.