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That's handy to know Joe, thank you!
Some time ago I contacted a local printer to ask about getting some large prints done. One print was going to cost me $150. I mentioned I wanted 6 done and it dropped to $55 each. I started wondering how many I'd have to order for them to be paying me.
In all seriousness, they told me I had to take them in in some portable document format (PDF) to get the quality from their printers. PDF IS NOT a print quality format.
I've often wanted poster size prints of a few of my non astronomy images.
I have a Kodak photo kiosk with the Kodak 8810 large format (12x8, 10x8) dye sublimation printer and the 6850 small format (6x8, 6x4 and 7x5 but that requires trimming) dye sublimation printer. It's great for what I do. It came with 2 non functioning printers (the local pharmacist gave it all to me including computer, touch screen, software and cabinet), he also gave me around $5K of paper and ribbons for both printers. We stripped them right down, repaired the faults and rebuilt them.
I'd love the later Kodak (8850 maybe, I can't remember) unit which still does 12x8 but it could have the firmware updated to do panorama, the 8810 can't despite it being a continuous ribbon and paper roll.
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