Printing&scanning pictures and documents. Calgary and area

[katie3234]

Hi,
I live in Banff Alberta, and have found it extremely expensive printing photos, scanning documents & printing documents. It’s $5.00 per scanned paper, so when I have a gazillion papers to scan it makes it rather expensive. Does anyone know of a place in Calgary or Cochrane where I can print photos, scan and print documents that is not too pricy?
Thank you!

 

[MandiF]

Just wondering if it would be easier and cheaper in the long run to buy a printer/scanner. You can get one in Walmart for $40, this is what I did, and it made it all so much easier to be able to just scan it all in and print it off as often as possible.

http://www.walmart.ca/details?assetId=65845&fromSearch=true

 

[katie3234]

Wow, I hadn’t realized that you could buy printers for $40! I have a mac computer and laptop so I’m not sure how compatible most printers/scanners would be. Are you are to print photos from it as well?

 

[MandiF]

Most of the printers are plug and play, just make sure you can scan on them, or you can download the drivers. I used to have a macbook and mine worked fiine, but just make sure before you buy.

You can also print photos from them, it just depends on what paper you put in, but I actually just dropped all my pics into a document and printed them on plain paper. The quality is still quite good and you can then put a few on an A4 page and also put details underneath them, saying what they are and when they happened. Thats what I and quite a few people on this forum have said they did as well.

 

[HoneyBird]

i did print my photos on A4 paper and i printed everything at my office. so it was black and white...cheap? yes!

 

[jendrian]

Also, most walmarts have a photocentre where it's ~19 cents/print, and you can send them in 4x6'' photo paper. My wife and I printed them this way and it was quite a bit less than we expected to pay for nearly 200 pictures, because well after a certain number of prints they give discounts as well. This is way better in quality, and much cheaper than printing them yourself, although for the scanner buying the cheap multifunctional printer does a much better job, and you get a nice printer for your home as well.