High street digital machines for B&W?

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Geo - 27 Oct 2006 17:54 GMT

Anyone know if the DIY photo machines in Boots etc will cope with monochrome
images?
I have some old negs and prints to scan for the family (digital) archive but
would like to take a memory card down and get the odd dozen printed.

Geo

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Tony Polson - 27 Oct 2006 23:26 GMT

>Anyone know if the DIY photo machines in Boots etc will cope with monochrome
>images?
>I have some old negs and prints to scan for the family (digital) archive but
>would like to take a memory card down and get the odd dozen printed.

The FujiFilm Frontier machines offer black and white or sepia prints
from colour originals, so it should be no trouble printing black and
white from black and white originals. However, the machines I have
seen in Boots have always been Kodak machines, despite the fact that
most of the Boots processors are FujiFilm Frontiers.

ASDA stores use the FujiFilm Frontier DIY machines. Beware, they will
probably be busy just now because of the half term holidays.

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Geo - 28 Oct 2006 09:38 GMT

>The FujiFilm Frontier machines offer black and white or sepia prints
>from colour originals, so it should be no trouble printing black and
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>ASDA stores use the FujiFilm Frontier DIY machines. Beware, they will
>probably be busy just now because of the half term holidays.

Thanks for that encouraging info Tony. Boots is handiest - but only about 25
mile round trip to an Asda. Half term was last week in this part of Scotland...

Geo

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A.Lee - 28 Oct 2006 09:46 GMT

> Anyone know if the DIY photo machines in Boots etc will cope with monochrome
> images?
> I have some old negs and prints to scan for the family (digital) archive but
> would like to take a memory card down and get the odd dozen printed.

If you mean the ones where you plug the card in yourself, and select it,
and it comes out in 30 seconds or so, then yes, I've done quite a few
B+W prints on them.
We use the same printers in our vending machines (Mitsubishi CP9000
iirc), so I get mine done for free.
Many new photo booths do digital prints now. 20p a go, a bit expensive
for 50+, but if you only need 2 or 3 , then it is quite convenient.
Alan.

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