Sorry my answer wasn't clearer.....I just assumed that since we were discussing printing to our own specs that we would be doing it on a computer system set up and calibrated to do that. To have prints done at Costco to a professional level, they need to be printed with "Corrections Off".
> To: artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com
> From: gene51@optonline.net
> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 06:06:43 -0400
> Subject: RE: [artshow_photo] Re: Canvas Printing
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> The printer profiles are just for soft-proofing. You use that to check the
> image as the printer will print it - usually its close to the onscreen image
> if you have properly profiled your display. If you have not you will have to
> constantly check softproof to make sure you are getting what you want.
>
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> From: artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com [mailto:artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Paul Kowal
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 8:48 PM
> To: artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [artshow_photo] Re: Canvas Printing
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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 learn©
> >
> > And as an aside, thank you to the folks that post here regularly. The
> > insights I have gained here have been quite helpful©
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