The Great Printing Shootout continues:

Snapfish results came back and looked, unsurprisingly, the least spectacular of the ones I tried. For 12 cents a print, I didn't expect them to top the others. The photo that I had Helix redo came back not yellow, but green. Less obvious than before, but still not black and white. Life is full of disappointments.

With high hopes I went to pick up my 8x10" from Target today. As you probably didn't read in a previous post, the black and white 4x6's from Target/Yahoo came out beautifully. Almost perfectly color neutral, not too light, not too dark, sharp, and generally awesome. Alas, the 8x10" did not deliver the same excellence.

While it still had the sharpness and balance that I expected, there was an obvious color cast that I thought was blue. Unfortunately, a reprint fared no better, despite the efforts of the friendly girl behind the counter. It wasn't until I brought them home that I saw that they were both, in fact, quite green. Even more so than the Helix print. Comparing with the 4x6" from Target, it was light and day. What happened! (Kerstin, if you're reading this, I'll bring in both the 4x6" and the 8x10" so you can see.)

I should be getting prints back from EZ Prints and Mpix next week. Then again, if prints will vary between batches...who knows who I can count on?

Money wasted to date: $39.58 :\