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Turning Digital Images Into Prints — Chapter 13 307 13 Images Enjoying & Sharing IV Part Turning Digital Images Into Prints Turning Digital Images into Prints — Chapter 13 307 13 Part IV Sharing & Enjoying Images Turning Digital Images into Prints Do you have digital images that you want to print? Maybe you’ve received them as e-mail attachments, downloaded them from the Internet, taken them with a digital camera, or scanned them yourself with a desktop scanner—it doesn’t matter how you got the digital images—the task now is to get them printed. What options are there? What kind of printer should you use? If you don’t have a printer, how can you get prints made? Can you print your own prints if you don’t have a PC? What kinds of specialty papers are available? If you want the absolutely best print possible, where should you go? How can you make prints available to a friend who lives in another city? If you have these or similar questions, you are reading the right chapter! In this chapter, you will learn how you can turn your digital images into a print by: ᮣ Uploading them to an Internet-based printing service ᮣ Using the digital image services of a local photo lab ᮣ Using a desktop printer ᮣ Using the services of a custom photo lab Looking into the future By the end of 2000, the number of ways that you will be able to get photo-quality prints made from digital image files will increase considerably. Many companies are focused on introducing new printing services that will revolutionize the way we use, share, and print pictures. This vision is being built upon three elements that will make sharing pictures almost as easy and common as sending e-mail. http://www.muskalipman.com 308 Turning Digital Images into Prints — Chapter 13 The first element consists of digital mini-labs and photo kiosks. The new integrated digital mini-labs will accept virtually every input source from silver halide film to digital camera media, CD-ROMs, PC cards, floppy disks, Zip disks, and more. They also can print regular photographs as well as upload digital images to the Internet. Photo kiosks are the self- serve consumer versions of a digital image lab that enable users to scan photographs or read images from CD-ROMs, floppy disks, or digital camera media. These kiosks can be used to digitally edit images, upload them to the Internet, and produce photo-quality prints. The kiosks of the near future also will enable you to download images from the Internet so that they can be printed or written to digital storage media. The second important element is the personal computer —which is available in an increasing number of homes and offices. A large percentage of PCs can be connected to the Internet, and they are frequently connected to an inkjet printer capable of making photo-quality prints. The final element—as you might have guessed—is the Internet. The Internet links the PCs, the digital mini-labs or kiosks, and a digital picture network such as Kodak PhotoNet. With that background, you can probably see the same vision that is driving many companies to provide us with a way to easily share our pictures with others no matter where they are. If you live in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and you want to share a photo with a friend in Salem, Oregon, or your grandparents in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida—it is easy. After you have a digital image, you can upload it to the Internet and send the recipient an e-mail telling how they can access it. The recipient can then download it to his PCs and print it on his own printer if he has one. He can download the image on a photo kiosk and have it printed while he waits. Alternatively, you can send a digital image to a specific photo lab in his neighborhood where he can pick up the prints after they have been made. Your brother in Rome, Italy, could even get the print shown in Figure 13.1 merely by picking it up at a nearby photo-lab. http://www.muskalipman.com Turning Digital Images into Prints — Chapter 13 309 Figure 3.1 Part IV Sharing & Enjoying Images Uploading a digital image file to be printed with Kodak’s Quick Print service. That is a quick peek at the future. Two problems are keeping this vision from becoming reality. First, most of the large chains of one-hour labs (mass merchants, camera stores, and drug stores) do not yet have their mini-labs or kiosks connected to the Internet. Second, many photo labs do not have the new integrated digital mini-labs or kiosks installed, or existing ones have not been upgraded to enable them to accept digital image file media such as CD-ROMs or digital camera media. Both of these problems are rapidly being addressed. My guess is that by the end of 2000, reality will be close to being the same as the vision that was discussed earlier. Ordering prints through the Internet One of the easiest ways to turn your digital images into prints is to order them through the Internet. Prints can be ordered in many ways and through a number of companies. As you might expect, Kodak has worked hard to position itself as a leader in the digital photography marketplace. Kodak services are available through Kodak directly or through many participating Kodak photo retailers. http://www.muskalipman.com 310 Turning Digital Images into Prints — Chapter 13 Kodak PhotoNet online services Kodak, through its wholly owned subsidiary, PictureVision, Inc., offers extensive Web site services for viewing, storing, sharing, and ordering prints of your photos. This online service, which is a combination of the Kodak Picture Network and PictureVision’s PhotoNet services, will soon be available at 40,000 outlets worldwide. This new total digital solution is available through every level of the photofinishing industry—mini- labs, wholesale labs, and mail-order labs. Significantly, PhotoNet services are available on such an extensive basis that it makes it easy for you to share photos with others, no matter where they are. Chapter 14, “Using AOL and ‘You’ve got Pictures,’ ” discusses in detail how PhotoNet can be used to share pictures and order prints. AOL, by the way, is just one of many retailers offering the Kodak PhotoNet service. Kodak Quick Print service If there is a digital image file on your PC or on the Internet somewhere that you want to have printed, you can order one in just a few steps directly over the Internet. To access Kodak’s Quick Print service, visit the Kodak Web site at www.Kodak.com and click on the Quick Print link. This will download the Web page shown in Figure 13.2. Click on the Browse button and use the browser to select the file that you want to have printed. Figure 13.2 Uploading a digital image file to be printed with Kodak’s Quick Print service. http://www.muskalipman.com Turning Digital Images into Prints — Chapter 13 311 Your image must be in one of the following file formats: JPEG, BMP, TIFF, Part IV Sharing & Enjoying Images GIF, PBM, PPM, or PGM. It also must be less than 3MBs in size. After you’ve selected a file, you can either add additional ones or you can continue with the order process. When your image has been uploaded, you will be presented with a screen that shows the image that was uploaded, indicating that the upload was completed successfully. The remaining steps include choosing the number of copies and the size of prints that you want. Click on the Add to Order button, and you are ready for the final step of entering your name, shipping address, and credit card information. These steps take place in the Web page shown in Figure 13.3. Within a few days of placing your order, you will receive your print in the mail. Figure 13.3 Ordering prints from a digital image file with Kodak’s Quick Print service. Besides printing the regular 4fi6-, 5fi7-, and 8fi10-inch glossy print, you can also order an 8fi10-inch photo jigsaw puzzle, two sizes of photo mugs, a photo mouse pad, photo T-shirt, or sweatshirt. If you want to use Kodak digital print services, but you’d prefer to use a mail-order photofinisher, you might want to consider using Mystic Labs (www.mysticcolorlab.com) or York Photo (www.yorkphoto.com). http://www.muskalipman.com 312 Turning Digital Images into Prints — Chapter 13 Other services to consider Besides Kodak participating photofinishers, there are other Internet-based services that you might want to consider using. They are AGFANet (www.agfanet.com), Club Photo (www.clubphoto.com), EZ Prints (www.ezprints.com), and Seattle Film Works (www.filmworks.com). Seattle Film Works is one of the pioneers of Internet-based photography. You can learn more about its unique offering in Chapter 12, “Using the Internet to Share Images.” NOTE More than 120 friends and family members got together for a wedding. One of the family members took photographs with a film-based camera. After shooting four rolls of film, he took them to a nearby, one-hour photo- processing lab (located inside a drug store) to be developed. When he dropped off the film, he indicated on the processing request envelopes that he wanted four sets of reprints. Additionally, he checked a box to have the images uploaded to the Internet and checked another box to have the images put on a CD-ROM. In one hour, he could pick up the four sets of reprints.
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