It's not economical for you to do it. Send him to Costco or Walmart with a
CD of his images. They'll knock them out for 20-25 cents a piece. Do the
8x10s if you want to be involved, but even there, it's cheaper at Costco.
The R1800 is for us photo-graffers
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 5:48 PM
Subject: [OM] Cost of digital prints
>
> A buddy of mine has asked me to print 500 or so of his snapshots from his
> South American vacation, and is insisting on paying me for the trouble.
> Given that its 500 prints, I'm going to let him pay me
> something close to the cost of paper and ink. The problem is that I
> haven't printed enough with my new printer to have a good handle on what
> actual ink costs per print are running.
>
> Given that I'm using an 8 color Epson R1800, and most of the prints will
> be 3" X 4" or 4" X 5.5" on roll paper (Epson semigloss) with maybe a
> handful (a dozen or two) 8 X 10s, what would you expect
> the out of pocket cost to run?
>
> On a related note, if he took the job to a run of the mill photo
> lab/printer, what would they charge?
>
> --
> Barry B. Bean
> Bean & Bean Cotton Company
> Peach Orchard, MO
> www.beancotton.com
> www.beanformissouri.org
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