As said in reply to Ken, I'm not in Seattle anymore. But thanks for the
suggestions.
What I did was a 600x1200 for printing on 8.5x11 paper (coated or
glossy) this Epson Stylus Color I have, and its getting older by the
minute with the 720x720 dpi maximum. But you're right, I don't spend
much on this "hobby". One note, I tried a business that printed from
diskette however the work is not going to be any better than what's paid
for obviously, meaning meaning most people could probably get fair
enough results on their own with enough incentive.

Jason wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  [Image]

-- 
 omniVERSE: beyond the universe
  http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
=Bob

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