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Which printer will crop images down to passport size say 55mm x 35mm any ideas
 
Sorry for my reply I didn't mo the size of passport it was just a guess
 
Printers don't crop images (I assume you mean like a Canon or Epson as opposed to DSCL or Loxleys)?
 
Are you intending to produce passport photos for the general public, in a High Street set up?
 
I know that it's possible to get a template for passport photos that you can print out at 6x4 at a photo printers eg boots/tesco. You've got to be very careful about resizing so that the photos keep in the guidelines.
 
I understand that many printers will have a 'custom setting' where you can specify the exact size required before printing.
 
aeronic said:
I know that it's possible to get a template for passport photos that you can print out at 6x4 at a photo printers eg boots/tesco. You've got to be very careful about resizing so that the photos keep in the guidelines.
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Presumably you mean through a Photo kiosk? Most of these will have that function on there. Don't forget Snappy Snaps, Kodak Express, Fuji Digital Image Service and Max Speilman , or any decent independant photo store.
 
MARK AMIES said:
Presumably you mean through a Photo kiosk? Most of these will have that function on there. Don't forget Snappy Snaps, Kodak Express, Fuji Digital Image Service and Max Speilman , or any decent independant photo store.
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Actually, I upload my photos to tescophoto online, and then in an hour I walk around the corner to collect the prints. (There has to be an advantage to living next door to a huge tesco).
 
aeronic said:
Actually, I upload my photos to tescophoto online, and then in an hour I walk around the corner to collect the prints. (There has to be an advantage to living next door to a huge tesco).
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Printed out on the Hewlet Packard printing device?, or the wet lab? How much per print?
 
MARK AMIES said:
Printed out on the Hewlet Packard printing device?, or the wet lab? How much per print?
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It's done on their big machine, never given it much thought - its certainly not one of those instant machines.
It's about 6p - 10p per pint.
 
I have recently taken my wife's photo for her passport photo. (She is a wheelchair-user and can't get into a photo booth).

Once the full-size photo was taken I set up a separate template with layers at 300 ppi using the the government's guideline sizes. This template had an outline of the correct size for a passport-sized image, plus another layer with the outline of the correct face-height. I pasted in the photo as a separate layer, and adjusted the size to fit the template using the "transform" option in PS. Lastly I cropped it to exactly fit the template format and removed the layers from the original template that had the outlines, before printing on my inkjet. It worked a treat and she now has her new passport without any quibbles.
 
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