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Learn how to save money when printing digital photos.  This article shares ways to print digital photos, including which websites to use or how to print photos locally.











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1

Research printing at home to establish a base price expense.  Quite often buying your own photo printer, photo paper, and ink cartridges is more expensive than you need. Unless you plan on printing photos for a living, other options usually save you money.




2

Explore online websites that print photos and offer great deals. The down side is the photos sometimes take a week or two to arrive.  However, if the timeline of arrival is not urgent, these sites can save you a lot of money.

Artscow.com offers new members over 1200 free prints and three free photo books.  Their prices are really inexpensive and the sites prints on all sorts of items such as playing cards, blankets, shower curtains, puzzles, keychains, and more.

Snapfish.com provides many prints at 8 cents each with reasonable shipping.

Walgreens.com allows consumers to upload their photos and then pick them up at a local store when convenient.



3

If you do not want to create an online account with your photos, print at a local kiosk.  Depending upon where you live, a large number of stores now feature Kodak kiosks or other name brand photo printing kiosks.  To use these, save your photo files onto a memory card and take the card to the store.  Usually you are able to crop, edit, and stylize the photos prior to printing.  Also, this is a quick way to obtain your prints as you often wait right there for them to print.













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Remember, not everyone will save money with one option or the other.  It is up to you to research which method is best for you.  If time is of the essence, printing for yourself or at a local kiosk may cost more per print but be worth it.  If time is not a concern, then online websites are typically the best resource for saving money when printing digital photos.








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Active Perl And Local Time

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Active Perl and Local Time

Introduction
Many web servers have Active Perl (or Perl) scripts. It is possible for a script in a server to read the date and time of the server computer. Everything being equal such date and time is called local time. In this article, I show you how to read and display the server local time at a browser. The browser here is not in the server; it is in some client computer somewhere in the Internet.

You need basic knowledge in HTML (or XHTML) and ActivePerl (Perl) in order to understand this article. If you do not have basic knowledge in HTML then read the series I wrote whose first article is titled, “Getting Started with XHTML”. To arrive at the series, type the title and my name Chrys in the Search Box of this page and click Search. If you do not have basic knowledge in ActivePerl (or Perl) then read another series I wrote whose first article is titled, “Getting Started with ActivePerl”. To arrive at the series, type the title and my name Chrys in the Search Box of this page and click Search.

Note: If you cannot see the code or if you think anything is missing (broken link, image absent), just contact me at forchatrans@yahoo.com. That is, contact me for the slightest problem you have about what you are reading.

Everything said in this article is applicable to traditional Perl. However, with traditional Perl you have to precede your code with something like, #!/usr/bin/perl .

The Perl localtime Function
Perl has a predefined function called localtime. In simple terms the function returns a list as follows:

    ($ sec, $ min, $ hour, $ mday, $ mon, $ year, $ wday, $ yday, $ isdst) = localtime();

There are nine elements in the list. The values of the variables in the list are numbers. $ sec is second as you would read from a digital clock (it may be one or two digits). $ min is minutes as you would read from a digital clock (it may be one or two digits). $ hour is hour (24-hour-clock) as you would read from a digital clock (it may be one or two digits).

$ mday is the day number of the month and can be from 1 to 31. $ mon is the month number and can be any number from 0 to 11, where 0 means January and 11 means December.

$ year is the number of years since 1900. The year today is 2010. If you were to get the local time today, $ year would be 110. The year returned in the list is the difference between today’s year and 1900. You have to add the value of $ year to 1900 in order to obtain the four-digit year, today.

$ wday is the day number of the week and can be any number from 0 to 6, where 0 is Sunday and 6 is Saturday. $ yday is the day number of the year and it can be a number from 0 to 364 or 365 depending on whether you are dealing with a leap year or not. $ isdst is true (1) if the specified time occurs during Daylight Saving Time, false (0) otherwise.

The return value of the function, localtime can be assigned to an array. The following code illustrates a simple use of the function. Save the code as a Perl file in a web server. Call the file from a browser.

use strict;
print “Content-Type: text/html\n\n”;

my @time = localtime();

foreach (@time)
    {
        print $ _ . “<br “;
    }

The nine values displayed should be numbers as mentioned above.

Example
Consider the following date-time example:

    Fri, 21 Nov 2010 9:55:13

You have the day of the week in letters, a comma, the day number of the month, the month in letters, the four-digit year, the hour, minutes and seconds. Date and time are usually displayed in a particular format as in this example.

To use the localtime function and finally display local time (date-time) in the above format, there are two main problems: the day of the week and month of the year are given as three-letter words; the second problem is that the year is given as the four-digit number. The other values for the format can be copied directly from the returned list of the localtime function.

Here is how we shall link the letter days of the week and the letter months of the year to their corresponding numbers from the returned list: For the days of the week there will be an array of seven elements; the values of this array are the three-letter words for the days of the week. Each of the indices of the array element is a number that can return the three-letter day of the week; an index of the array corresponds to its three-letter word value. For the months of the year there will be an array of 12 elements; the values of this array are the three-letter words for the months of the year. Each of the indices of the array element is a number that can return the corresponding three-letter month of the year.

The order of the elements of the example local time above is not the same order in the list returned by the localtime function. So the code to produce a local time string similar to the above example format has to do some reordering. It also has to select particular elements from the returned list of the function. These are implicitly done.

Note the use of a comma, spaces and colons of the above example format.

Implementation
The following code displays a string of the server local time according to the format given in the example above:

use strict;
print “Content-Type: text/html\n\n”;

my @time = localtime();

my @week = (“Sun”, “Mon”, “Tue”, “Wed”, “Thu”, “Fri”, “Sat”);

my @mYear = (“Jan”, “Feb”, “Mar”, “Apr”, “May”, “Jun”, “Jul”, “Aug”, “Sep”, “Oct”, “Nov”, “Dec”);

my $ serverStr;

my $ year = 1900 + $ time[5];
$ serverStr = $ week[$ time[6]] . “, ” . $ time[3] . ” ” . $ mYear[$ time[4]] . ” ” . $ year . ” ” . $ time[2] . “:” . $ time[1] . “:” . $ time[0];

print $ serverStr;

Read the above code and try it; it should be self-explanatory.

We have come to the end of this article.

Chrys
 

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Ways That You Can Print Better Images

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It is often the simple things that spoil an image. Using simple techniques and a little care, you can easily give you images the attention that will do them justice. The materials used in printing your images play an important factor in the quality of the finished print.  

Printer: When buying a printer think about the materials that you’ll be using. If your are going to be printing your images in large format buy a printer that can handle rolls of photographic paper. These printers are usually more expensive, but great savings can be made when buying paper.

Paper: Photographic paper comes in many different sizes and textures. It doesn’t do any harm to test a few different papers from different manufacturers to see which one suits your needs.

Ink: When buying inks for your printer I would strongly recommend that you buy from your printer’s manufactures.

Third party inks will give you great savings but may not be suited for your printer.

When buying a printer, photographic paper or inks, it is advisable to plan well in advance. If you are only going to print a small amount of images it may be better using your local photo lab. If you’re planning to sell a large amount of images, your own printer will be very valuable. Having your own printer will ensure that you can process orders immediately after getting them.

In today’s world, offering a speedy delivery can be the difference in making a sale. Using a third party to print your images may take a week or more before you’ll get your images back. This will not be good for your business.

Presentation.

When you are happy with the quality of your printer you now need to consider presentation. Placing an image in to a cheap frame will not do anything for your prints. Presentation is all about giving your images the impact they truly deserve. Before you print your images start thinking about presentation.

It is often very effective to add a white border in Photoshop before printing.  If you decide against Photoshop I would recommend that you mount your image before framing.

When finished printing match your prints to your computer screen. If you think you have a problem with your final print you may need to calibrate your computer. This is a common problem with a lot of people printing at home. Most advance photographic software comes with a basic calibration program, which can be simply used in improving results.

Printing Tips:  

Before you print your images do a final check to make sure colours are perfect and that there are no marks on your image.
Make sure that you have the right quality settings on your printer.
Always use the best printing options available on your printer.
If you are using heavyweight paper – load the paper one sheet at a time. This will avoid clogging.
Once you are happy with your printing, allow your prints to rest for 24 hours, place a sheet of plain paper between each print when storing your images.

Other printing tips: Most ink and paper companies claim that their product dry instantly – this means that they are dry to touch. If you print you own images there are a few important points to follow before framing.

1 – allow your prints to rest for 15 minutes after printing.

2 – after 15 minutes place a sheet of white paper over the print – use standard paper – don’t use photographic paper. The paper acts as a sponge absorbing the outgoing gases from the printing process. Allow this process to continue for twenty-four hours.

3 – if the plain paper is crimped once removed, repeat the process for another twenty-four hours. If not, your image is ready for framing.

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