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Printing through iPhoto
What happens when you click print?
15 December 2008
In my quest to be sure to select the best photos of my 1,019 headshot options, I decided to get prints made of 116 that I like. Digital deciding needed to give way to analog analysis of the details. Thought about going over Walgreen’s, but instead I clicked “print” in iPhoto to get it done.
The iPhoto print process is easy, of course, and straightforward except for one thing — when will the prints arrive? Well, let me tell you.
I started my order on Thursday 12/11 at 3:20pm, it took a couple three hours to upload (some internet issues on my end included), the shipment and confirming email were sent to me some hours later after midnight, and now it just arrived today 12/15 at 2pm. This was with me paying for fast delivery (which bumped up the effective price of each 4×6 to 21.6¢). My photos originated in the Bay Area and came via the kind of UPS that doesn’t keep moving over the weekend.
Like many other things I’ve posted on my site, I post this in part because I could not find out this information from Apple before I ordered. They were vague on how long it would take, where it would ship from and via what method. But now you know what to expect, if you live in LA. Now that they’re here … I’m off to stare at photographic details … till I go blind.
UPDATE: Filenames don’t appear on the back side of the photos. And they don’t arrive in the order you sent them, but at random. Sigh, and sigh.