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Photo printing kiosks: Proof is in the pictures

By David Braue on 17 May 2006

Tags: digital | kiosks | photo | printing | prints | ranking | david | comparative | relate | quantity

Introduction Skip the queues
Kiosks aren't kiosks The results
Worth the full thousand words? Proof in the pictures
 

Don't assume paying more for digital prints will get you better prints. David Braue finds some surprising results after road-testing seven Australian digital photo kiosks.

The differences in colour and image quality varied quite drastically between some of the prints. The examples below relate to the comparative ranking table.

Nigel
16/01/2008 10:53 PM

Wouldn't the result depend on the skill of the person printing the photographs in the first place.I have been using nulab to do my printing.They have a number of printers and I know who has done the printing by the results alone. Except kiosks of course....ps these are invariably a complete waste of time and money.

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