eaj101
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Not to be discouraging, but almost all gallery-quality photographic printing these days is by inkjets. For those with bad memories of printer reliability (head clogs, etc) from the past the manufacturers have mostly beat them. I've used an Epson P800 for some years now and *never* had a head clog. Ever.
To be a little contentious though, I don't believe it's even possible to replicate the quality possible with your own printing by using a lab. I do multiple prints of sections of an image or the full image before I find a version of exposure and dodging/burning that meets my standards. I don't see how you could possibly to that with a commercial lab. As an analogy, look at Ansel Adams' book 'The Print'. Digital printing is in workflow and intent fundamentally the same as analog.
To be a little contentious though, I don't believe it's even possible to replicate the quality possible with your own printing by using a lab. I do multiple prints of sections of an image or the full image before I find a version of exposure and dodging/burning that meets my standards. I don't see how you could possibly to that with a commercial lab. As an analogy, look at Ansel Adams' book 'The Print'. Digital printing is in workflow and intent fundamentally the same as analog.
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