Printing ya pics

What is the best printing at home or use one of those machines??

i have tryed the home thing but they never look as good as what they look like on the Lcd screen

You need monitor caliberation and they should look very near to your screen

I have a canon pixma 4300 printer and the monitor is caliberated with Eye one match caliberator.

I also had major problems getting it right but thankfully its not to bad now

Hope this helps

Pete

It is generally cheaper to have your photos printed, especially if you do a lot of them. I don't know which shops do it in the UK, but here in Holland forinstance our local supermarket has an online printing service - you send them off online, and collect and pay for the prints at the supermarket. I use this service most of the time, even for fairly big photos. But if you only print an odd photo or two then print them yourself, once everything is calibrated.

Monitor calabration now call me thick but is that ajusting somert if so what ??

Inkjet and dye sublimation = BAD!!!

Get them done at a good lab with proper RGB laser exposed photo paper.

Sure is. You can find whole books on the subject, but essentially it is setting up your monitor so that it outputs the correct colors.
This way your monitor will be consistent with anyone else who also has a calibrated monitor and/or printing service.

if you're in the UK check out www.dlab7.com

very reasonably priced (as in about half the price I can do them for with my ink-jet) and the quality is superb.

Bare in mind that monitor calibration is actually MORE important if you're having someone else do your printing. If it's your printer you can faff around with the various settings until what is on the screen is close to what comes out on the paper. It costs a bit in consumables to get set up but once you're there it's all good.

You can't really do that with a lab so you need to be confident your image is close to what will appear on a calibrated screen/printer.

Northerndj, do a search on this forum for "Monitor calibration", you'll find that there has been quite a lengthy discussion on the why and how of it all! It is worth it though, as you will have confidence that other people will be able to see your pictures the same way that you do, and vice versa. Some of us use dedicated hardware (Huey pantone in my case) to check our monitors regularly (But then I do have a high geek score http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html)