Passport photo printing from file/USB
Jonathan Geater
Is there anywhere around town that will take photos from a USB stick and
print them as passport photos? The pictures are ready to go: head fills
the right amount of frame, background is clear, etc. They just need to
be printed to the right size and quality.
The booth in Milton Tesco claims a bluetooth feature to print mobile
phone snaps but there's no demo mode so I can't tell whether it will do
what I want without paying it.
Similarly I remember there being a photo printer at Cambridge Services
along the A14 which takes all manner of memory card formats but I don't
recall whether that one did passport-size prints.
Any advice? The photos are not of me so I can't just sit in a booth and
have new shots taken.
Thanks,
Jon
Calvin Sambrook
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We used Boots instant printer machines on Newmarket Road. Post Office and
UK Passport people were happy with them. At about 40p a print I was
prepared to risk my cash without seeing the results first.
Cwatters
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We printed ours at home. Main problem was finding photo paper with no
writing on the back.
Jonathan Geater
> "Jonathan Geater" <jonatha...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there anywhere around town that will take photos from a USB stick
>> and print them as passport photos? The pictures are ready to go: head
>> fills the right amount of frame, background is clear, etc. They just
>> need to be printed to the right size and quality.
>>
>> The booth in Milton Tesco claims a bluetooth feature to print mobile
>> phone snaps but there's no demo mode so I can't tell whether it will
>> do what I want without paying it.
>>
>
> We used Boots instant printer machines on Newmarket Road. Post Office
> and UK Passport people were happy with them. At about 40p a print I was
> prepared to risk my cash without seeing the results first.
Sounds good, thanks. The machine at Tesco is �4 a go and doesn't say
for sure whether all the options (like passport size/multiples) are
actually available via the bluetooth input interface.
Thanks,
Jon
Jonathan Geater
> "Jonathan Geater" <jonatha...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:jr3ym.101595$OO7....@text.news.virginmedia.com...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there anywhere around town that will take photos from a USB stick and
>> print them as passport photos? The pictures are ready to go: head fills
>> the right amount of frame, background is clear, etc. They just need to be
>> printed to the right size and quality.
>>
>
> We printed ours at home. Main problem was finding photo paper with no
> writing on the back.
This was my original thought, but alas my printer's not up to the job
(and the photos are not for the GBR IPS: they're for a foreign agency
with seemingly different self-print rules).
TA,
Jon
Jules
> Hi all,
>
> Is there anywhere around town that will take photos from a USB stick and
> print them as passport photos? The pictures are ready to go: head fills
> the right amount of frame, background is clear, etc. They just need to
> be printed to the right size and quality.
Not sure of USB, but I did this via CD at the place in Milton nr. Tesco
(Labute I think they're called these days). Took it in as a TIFF image of
something like 12 mug-shots with whitespace between, told them the
resolution, and got back a nice A4 sheet which I could cut up into several
photos.
Theo Markettos
> Not sure of USB, but I did this via CD at the place in Milton nr. Tesco
> (Labute I think they're called these days). Took it in as a TIFF image of
> something like 12 mug-shots with whitespace between, told them the
> resolution, and got back a nice A4 sheet which I could cut up into several
> photos.
It was a while ago, but I did a similar thing in Jessops on Green St, using
an SD card. Was something like 12p/print - and I got 6 photos on a print.
No idea if the machine is still there, or even if Jessops is still there.
Theo
Alan
But presumably the staff could tell you.....
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Chris Shore
"Jonathan Geater" <jonatha...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>
> Is there anywhere around town that will take photos from a USB stick and
> print them as passport photos? The pictures are ready to go: head fills
> the right amount of frame, background is clear, etc. They just need to be
> printed to the right size and quality.
The Post Office always recommend Snappy Snaps just inside Lion Yard. I
believe he has a "print from digital media" machine but I'm sure could sort
you out either way.
Chrsi
Jonathan Geater
None of those around on the photo service desk on weekends. Cam.misc is
faster than waiting for Monday ;-)
Jon
Naomi
think it does have writing on the back. Colour deskjet printer. But as
ong as the measurements are right, and you're not grinning...
Naomi
steve.nemo
rosen...@cix.compulink.co.uk
steve...@ntlworld.com (steve.nemo) wrote:
Isn't their photo printing service closing down?
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Colin Rosenstiel
Rob Beardwell
> Is there anywhere around town that will take photos from a USB stick and
> print them as passport photos? The pictures are ready to go: head fills
> the right amount of frame, background is clear, etc. They just need to
> be printed to the right size and quality.
Possibly not what you are looking for but we've used www.photobox.com
for passport photos. they have a template and deliver very quickly (next
day in our case IIRC)
Cheers
Rob
Jonathan Geater
done me but in the end I went to Snappy Snaps who had the added bonus of
checking against the proper (non-UK) templates and doing a decent
photoshop job on the backgrounds (came out too grey so he whitened it up).
Jon
atruelove
boatmate Sir Alan Traill, Lord Mayor of London, (passed the chair),
the nice lady at the Cambridge PO wasn't quite sure if he was
adequate.. but I made it...
Now my UK Passport has been clipped by order of Bush; I know what I'd
like to clip..