[SeSawaya]

Using iPhoto to have Kodak print your photos is a great way to get good quality prints, but 49¢ each? I figure it would be a 1/3 of that by now. My local Walgreens can do it for 29¢ each and no shipping or time waiting.

I think they are missing the boat on this. If they lowered thier price per print, many more people would use this great feature with iPhoto. I for one would use it all the time instead of the 2 times I actually have. $50 for seemingly a few prints stinks!

[dwishbone]

i agree it should be cheaper. walmart charges like 25 cents. i think...or there abouts. ive never used the iPhoto thing...but do they charge you for S&H on the iPhoto ones? if they dont that extra price might be making up for that.
dunno....just a thought.

[CharlesS]

Kodak provides nice, high-quality prints. How do Walgreens and Wal-Mart compare?

Oh, and asking any company to compete with Wal-Mart on prices is not very realistic.

[dwishbone]

i was just pointing out what the price was. yes...cant compete with wally world.
ive only used walmarts one time and they came out just dandy.
it would probably be worth it to me to pay the extra money just not to have to fight off the masses at walmart with a stick.

[parsec_kadets]

Ummm.....actually they already lowered the price. It's now 39¢ for each print.

[Millennium]

Apple has a knack for overcharging, it's true. But is this one actually under Apple's control? Is it not possible that Kodak is the one who sets the price for these?

[smitty825]

This is my guess why iPhoto was originally free...Apple thought that they could make money on the prints. I bet that they were disappointed by the number of people that didn't use their print service, or just didn't print anything...

(It's also why I suspect Apple was giving away 100 prints or so with .Mac...to get people used to printing their photos with the iPhoto service...)

Originally posted by Millennium:
Apple has a knack for overcharging, it's true. But is this one actually under Apple's control? Is it not possible that Kodak is the one who sets the price for these?

[SOLIDAge]

when iPhoto came out, getting digital pictures printed wasn't as common as it was now, so then 50 cents wasn't asking that much, and today it still isn't that bad for nice high quality prints...but everyone is right, times have changed, its a much more common thing, i think apple should lower their price to compete, i would gladly pay somewhere around 35 cents apiece as this is a very fair price for the great service.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by parsec_kadets:
Ummm.....actually they already lowered the price. It's now 39¢ for each print.

Exactly...

[SeSawaya]

of course cause a cople weeks ago when i bought them, they were 49¢.

[krove]

I can tell you now that pictures from stores like WalMart, Walgreens, Albertsons and the like are atrocious! I take hundreds of photomicrographs (pictures from a very expensive microscope) in my chemistry research, and this last summer, we needed to get some pictures developed for a presentation fast. In my haste, I went to Albertsons to have them develop the pictures. What a mistake! Half the pictures didn't even print properly (because the computer that processes the film believed the pictures were blank due to lack of features, which was simply part of the photomicrograph) and the colors were washed out.

To fix the mistake, we took the roll to a professional one-hour photo place and the pictures came back with vibrant, true, vivid colors. Whew...

These are 35-mm film rolls and not digital, but beware these places that have cheap, automated developing solutions!

[Cincojoe]

i think he used a bad example by comparing wal-mart and walgreens with apple. But the point still is that apple is way to expensive for what they are charging on photo printing. there are several other online print shops that do just as good a job or better for much cheaper.

[SeSawaya]

so are the book any cheaper also?

believe it or not, printers are getting better and cheaper all the time, I would think that could/would be the case with this topic