Digital BW, The Print

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:21:27PM -0500, John Moody wrote:
> Tell her that inkjet prints on _good_ printers sell for thousands of
> dollars.... :-)
> The difference huge, if you know what to look for, but still obvious if you
> don\ufffdt.  Also ofoto prints will fade, if that matters to you.

They share that problem with all the Frontier-type print shops
(except perhaps mpix, with their "true B&W" option).  Ofoto in
particular has another problem as well.  They will punch up your
picture whether you like it or not.  It looks to me like they're
increasing contrast and/or saturation, and recovering shadow detail.

So if the O.P.'s friend does decide to send her jobs to a Frontier/C41
shop, she should avoid ofoto, unless she *wants* the print house to
second-guess her.

-- 
 Ben Rosengart                                          ben@...
       "Young people should be seen and not heard, because they're
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        but we're ugly." -- Grace Slick on the '60s youth movement