| Depends on where you live and how good a photofinisher you are.
Digital puts almost all of the quality control onto the photographer. As long as the lab is maintaining their equipment, running chemistry controls and paper profiles on a daily basis, they've done their end of the job.
After that, it's up to you to have a calibrated system and an idea of what you are doing.
Since labs are very variable, you need to send files to the labs you are interested in dealing with to see what they do.
It will always be cheaper to print at a photo lab, as the material cost of running consumer inkjet printers is absurdly expensive, especialy for smaller prints, and if you don't have a handle on colourspaces, paper profiles,etc, it can get very expensive. |