[X4U] Printing Greeting cards from iPhoto 08

[Lynch Andrew]

This is very disappointing.  I cannot imagine a motivation other than  
greed to disable the home printing of cards....  I hope they fix this.


-Drew

On Aug 23, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Tim Collier wrote:

>
> On Aug 23, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Andrew T. Lynch wrote:
>
>> Hi Winston,
>>   Thanks for responding.  I was beginning to wonder if my mail had  
>> gotten through.
>>
>>    When you say custom page size, do you mean some size other than  
>> the ones normally defined, such as US Letter?  I just want to  
>> select US Letter, or US Letter borderless.  I can do this from the  
>> normal print dialogs, but not from the greeting card system.   
>> There is no "Page Setup" in iPhoto 7 (aka iPhoto '08)
>>
>> Were you actually able to print a greeting card on 8.5x11 paper  
>> and have it properly aligned?
>>
>> -Drew
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Andrew T. Lynch
>
> I just looked through all of the documentation regarding producing  
> a greeting card in iPhoto 08.  Nowhere in the documentation does it  
> say that you can print your own.  I guess you can, but they're not  
> going to come out correctly.  Do you not see the button at the end  
> that says "Buy Card"?  I believe that Apple feels, and rightly so,  
> that they can produce a much better product for you than you can at  
> home.  However mistaken that concept might be:  a lot of us have  
> HIGH quality printers that give excellent results.  But it seems as  
> though they want you to let them produce the card(s) for you and  
> them ship them back.
> Now I have used their services in the past to order prints, a  
> calendar and one of their books.  What came back (in about 3 days  
> or so) was very high quality output.  So, yes they do a very good  
> job.  But should they take the ability for us to produce this same  
> output at home?  I think the answer is no.  I thought the whole  
> idea was about choice--fine, we should ALSO have the choice to  
> produce our own output, but this seems to have been limited with  
> the release of iLife 08.  Though there are vast improvements, I  
> think it would be wise to hold on to your copy of iLife 06.
> --
> Tim Collier
> MacBook Pro 2.33 gig
> http://www.timcolliermiami.com/
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