Re: [artshow_photo] Re: Canvas Printing

I wouldn't send anything to Costco to have printed on Canvas. The Canvas
printing is outsourced and not controlled by Costco. You get it mailed to
you direct. Use Simply Canvas for canvas printing. Any other printing I
trust Costco.

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Rod Melotte <grinder12000@yahoo.com> wrote:

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>
> I don't know - I've see Cosco canvas and am not impressed - all look a
> little
> dull and lifeless! I would have a hard time charging top dollar with Cosco
> canvas.
>
> Plus how many styles of canvas do they have. I think that is my biggest
> beef as
> I just don't like their choice of canvas. Too flat!
>
> Rod
>
> Melotte Photo Imagery
> Photography With an Edge
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> From: Paul Kowal <paul_kowal@msn.com>
> To: "artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com" <artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tue, May 31, 2011 7:47:51 PM
> Subject: RE: [artshow_photo] Re: Canvas Printing
>
> One of the good things about Costco and the reason so many professional
> photographers now use them is the ability to download a color profile for
> their
> machines and the ability to turn off corrections so that the photographer
> can
> get prints to their own preferences.
>
> To: artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com
> From: mike.pearlman@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:52:17 -0700
> Subject: Re: [artshow_photo] Re: Canvas Printing
>
> I can agree with everything said with the exception of the Costco remark.
> Costco is simply the machine and for smaller prints the same machine used
> in the most expensive professional labs. The quality is in the detail and
> that
> is done by the photographer who submits the file. Some of the really high
> end
> labs may have someone in between the photographer and the machine who
> does the work (makes the corrections) that the photographer should have
> done.
> If so they normally charge for the service.
> Doesn't work much differently from the days of film where the professional
> lab had some who covered the butts of the sloppy photographer.
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Vincent Goetz <vince.goetz@comcast.net
> >wrote:
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> >
> >
> >
> > As someone who does his own printing I have to agree with Brian. There is
> > as much art to printing as there is composition and making an image.
> Citing
> > Ansel Adams was perfect. If Ansel was alive today his post-processing and
> > printing seminars would be very well attended. Those of you that send
> their
> > printing out to Costco are getting what you pay for and not much more.
> > Understanding print profiles, color gamuts, papers and inks are all parts
> > of
> > creating an image that will touch people in the ways that you want your
> > images to do. And I can personally tell you that I love photography for
> > what I learn every day. From taking images to printing them to selling
> them
> > there are so many things to learnŠ
> >
> > And as an aside, thank you to the folks that post here regularly. The
> > insights I have gained here have been quite helpfulŠ
> >
> >
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