On a recent CreativeLive, the speaker said he has all his work done at Costco.  He said they do it right there and do it fast, and, for the most part, the work is no different than that done at a custom lab.  So, I decided to try Sam’s.  I uploaded twelve images.  I went to order the prints and immediately saw that I had a problem.  The selection of sizes was limited.  The only sizes that would allow me to have prints of the full image were 4 x 6 and 20 x 30.  There was a selection called “True Digital” but there was no indication of what that was.  So, I was stuck with 8×10 or 11×14 and having to crop the image.  Well, I ordered one of the “True Digital” prints just to see what it was and one 11×14 of each of the images.

I did not hear back from them notifying me the prints were done.  So, I asked in the store, and I was told it takes about an hour.  The “True Digital” print was something slightly smaller than a 4×6.  The 11×14 enlargements were all well done.  They were printed on a semi-gloss paper that was acceptable for the images.  I got to manipulate the cropping.  So, that was acceptable from the point of view that the images were cropped where I wanted them to be.  But, they were still cropped. A couple were somewhat darker than on screen.  There is, of course, no ability to calibrate.  So, that might be something that needs to be considered.

My next job is to locate appropriate matts for them.