If you really want good quality prints from your POV-Ray images, get them
printed on a Fujix Pictography 4000 printer. The Fujix prints on glossy or
matte photo paper.  If you render them at some ungodly resolution (like
4096x3072 or something) you can get a decent 20x16 print.  1280x1024 is just
fine for an 8x10, though. Great for framing! Of course, if you're using POV,
you probably don't have the $35,000 for a Fujix... so you'll have to find
someone who does.  (I used to know of a photo processing place in Seattle, but
that was 2 years ago.)

Just some advice from someone who's done some shopping around... :-)

Jason Scheuerman
mt### [at] nullnet
http://www.olywa.net/jscheuer

Bob Hughes wrote:

> I know, it gets boring if you've seen this over and over again, (it's
> found a lot at my AOL webspace ;) but it's one of those
> forever-on-the-workbench-being-tweaked-upon-in-various-ways
> models/scenes.
>
> Something that doesn't come up a lot here (or in
> news.povray.org.general, to keep out of the binaries) is printing of
> images. I'm probably in the same boat with many of you who have printed
> out what seems to be the wrong image when compared to the monitor
> screen. Talk about one of lifes frustrations! I have to set up an
> entirely different looking version of a picture to get anywhere similar
> to an original POV-Ray render (goes for anything, I know, but we're here
> about POV). Everything from brightness/contrast to color adjustments.
> I just happened to think how little this is covered.
>
> So anyway, comments appreciated, and here it is:
>
> --
>  omniVERSE: beyond the universe
>   http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
> =Bob
>
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>  [Image]

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