Why Is Everything Simple So Complicated!?!?!?!?

[waitingman]

All I want to do is print some photos at a large size... That's all. I don't want to custom frame them, I just want to print them at a large size & buy a matching pre-fab frame, stick the photo in it, then hang it on the wall. Simple, right?

Wrong

I looked up what A1 size is in centimetres & re-edited 5 photos to the appropriate dimensions, put them on a memory stick, headed down to my local Officeworks shop to print them, put the stick in the slot of the photo machine, selected A1 & promptly discovered the sizing was wrong - the machine cropped some of the image. I tried a different photo & the machine said it was too low-res for printing, even though I'd jacked up the resolution on all the images as well. There was the option of getting the photos printed via their website, so I left, noting the A1 frames on sale for $30...

Once home, I went to the website & found that I couldn't get anything printed at A1 size... even though there are frames for that size sitting on a shelf in the shop. What are they for, if not to put printed stuff into!?!? The biggest available size was a little smaller, which required further editing & some unwelcome, judicious cropping, but I'm happy enough with them. AND I jacked up the resolution even further, just in case. At Long-Suffering Partner's suggestion, I then did a search for photo frames that fit the new size - the largest size I could print... Of course there weren't any on the website, nor did a Google search find any stores that have frames of that size... I did find a company in Victoria who sell that size for $30 each, but they'd have to ship them up to New South Wales... for an additional fee, of course

So here I am, 6 hours after I started... with nothing to show for the day. How much can a Koala bear??

Edit - update I've now tried loading the photos onto 2 different company's photo websites & the photos have failed to load on both - though the format suggests both places are using the same software. So I've loaded them all onto the stick again, at 3 different resolutions & sizes & will go to Officeworks again in a day or 2... just so I can have the satisfaction of kicking the machine when it doesn't work

Comments

[basefinder]

This makes me feel better about not getting my Ring doorbell to work.

And also reinforces why I have never tried to print photos to fit existing frames.

(Give the machine a kick for me while you're at it, just for the hell of it.)

[paserbyp]

The answer is simple, not many people want to do it...