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Wal-Mart's New Photo Printing Service Undercuts Apple, Others

by , 2:25 PM EDT, September 27th, 2005

Wal-Mart has fired a new salvo in the digital photo printing war, dropping the price of prints at its store to US$0.15 each, with members of its Sam's Club stores paying $0.13 per image. An article at The Wall Street Journal (subscription required to view) notes that the service, which turns around jobs in 48 hours, is a new low point for digital photo printing costs at retail.

In the online realm, Apple charges $0.19 per print through iPhoto, which uses Kodak for processing. Kodak's own Kodak Gallery unit charges $0.15 per image, a new price that was adopted last Thursday. Hewlett-Packard's Snapfish unit charges $0.12 per print, with an extra nickel per image to mail them to a customer's home. There are also bargain outlets, such as PhotoCheap.biz's $0.108 per print, plus $0.99 per order for shipping and handling, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Wal-Mart and Sam's Club both offer one-hour photo printing at $0.19 and $0.17 per image, respectively, with the latter charging the same as rival Costco. According to The Wall Street Journal, printing images at home costs roughly $0.24 per shot for the paper and ink.

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Close Name:egarc Posts: 9 Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Subject: Sam's Club

I prefer to use Sam's Club (never tried WalMart) over iPhoto because you can order the prints and pick them up in an hour. Beats the heck out of waiting for the prints in the mail.

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Subject: QUALITY!!!!!!
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Subject: WalMart quality is fine...
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Subject: yes, sam's is fine for quality
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Subject: Quality-Sam's
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