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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 100022" data-attributes="member: 9240">The quality of the photo printers available out there has me currently doing anything at 8.5x11 or smaller at home on my Epson R280.&nbsp; I'm currently looking to get a 13&quot; printer and am researching that.&nbsp; Fortunately for me, my brother does gallery printing as a side business, so if I want something bigger I can go through him, but I've also used local camera shops to do poster sized shots as well with great results.&nbsp; I tried going a little cheaper with places like Kinkos (Staples) and others, but they do little to no printer profiling, so what you see on your monitor or theirs is never what they attempt to deliver (I've never actually paid for a print there, but have ripped up half a dozen before giving up).&nbsp; I suspect the Targets and Walmarts of the world are the same - they just take your image file and however it comes out is the way it comes out.Find yourself a good, independent camera shop and see how they do.&nbsp; And invest in a good printer for home.&nbsp; And if you can get your monitor calibrated so that what you see there is what you get on the printer, it'll go easier on you.&nbsp; If not, Lightroom 4 now has soft proofing that will allow you to adjust for specific printers and paper types, so you can use that to learn how to best tweak what you see on your monitor so that it prints the way you want it to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 100022, member: 9240"] The quality of the photo printers available out there has me currently doing anything at 8.5x11 or smaller at home on my Epson R280. I'm currently looking to get a 13" printer and am researching that. Fortunately for me, my brother does gallery printing as a side business, so if I want something bigger I can go through him, but I've also used local camera shops to do poster sized shots as well with great results. I tried going a little cheaper with places like Kinkos (Staples) and others, but they do little to no printer profiling, so what you see on your monitor or theirs is never what they attempt to deliver (I've never actually paid for a print there, but have ripped up half a dozen before giving up). I suspect the Targets and Walmarts of the world are the same - they just take your image file and however it comes out is the way it comes out. Find yourself a good, independent camera shop and see how they do. And invest in a good printer for home. And if you can get your monitor calibrated so that what you see there is what you get on the printer, it'll go easier on you. If not, Lightroom 4 now has soft proofing that will allow you to adjust for specific printers and paper types, so you can use that to learn how to best tweak what you see on your monitor so that it prints the way you want it to. [/QUOTE]

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