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by patio11 5093 days ago
Do people want to print photos?

Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: yes. Many of my (female, older) relatives use synthetic pigment attached to plant matter with animal proteins as both their primary transfer mechanism and storage media for photos. Ruriko's mother and my mother got virtually instant Dropboxed/Facebooked photos from the wedding, cooed a bit, and then went head over heels when they got the "real" photos. (Not the professional photos, which will be delivered in data and print -- just the same friends' cameraphone/point-n-click candid shots printed out at Walgreen's for $6.23.)