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Mar 17, 2005 -- Printing at home vs. at a store kiosk
Clark bought his wife a photo printer for Christmas last year. The printer is very easy to use and has a lot of functions. But the market is moving away from printers, because people are moving toward kiosks and 1-hour photo center. People are even e-mailing their shots to offsite printing sites that mail the hard copies back to them. Why are these people moving away from printing? First of all, it costs a lot more. PC World conducted some research into the cost of buying a printer versus printing them out at a kiosk. It urns out it costs double to print them on your own. Plus, Costco, Sams Club and other stores are in a price war for your business, so prints continue to go down in price. You can develop pictures now for 15, 17 or 19 cents, depending on where you go. Home printing isnt over, but now wonders if it was worth it to buy one. With the cost of the printer and the paper, it costs him about 36 cents a print. Yikes!
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