Costco Connection - July 2005

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HERE’S A NEW SERVICE from Costco that brings even more ease to getting digital photos made into high-quality prints. Using the Photo Center at costco.com, it’s possible to upload digital photos from a home computer (or anywhere with Internet access), place an order and then pick up the prints at any Costco 1-Hour Photo lab in the country.

The service provides prints in one hour for orders of up to 100 4-by-6-inch glossies. Larger orders or photo enlargements take additional time, but can be picked up no later than the next day at opening.

Getting prints of your photos is just the start. Once you upload the images, you can perform several editing functions before ordering prints. Photos can be cropped, redeye can be reduced and a fill-flash feature can brighten back-lit subjects. A variety of colorful borders can be added to your photos, and you can create individual captions.

If you’re interested in enlargements or photo CDs, those items can also be ordered

online for pickup at 1-Hour Photo.

You can also have your photo reproduced on a wide selection of gift items, such as coffee mugs, greeting cards and posters. These items are mail order only, and are not available for pickup at the warehouse.

Do you have a folder of digital photos in your computer that you intend to sort through and then e-mail to relatives and friends? The Photo Center has a solution to make that task more manageable.

Setting up a Photo Center account entitles you to store your digital pictures. Different albums can easily be arranged in your account, sorted any way you choose. Label an album “Pets” or another album “Disneyland” for pictures from your last vacation. It takes just a few minutes to set up the albums and upload your photos.

You can then order prints from any of those albums. And you can share the experience by designating the e-mail address of any-

The new Photo Center on costco.com gives members the convenience of an in-home 1-Hour Photo digital-print terminal.

one whom you would like to have access to one or all of your albums. That person will receive an e-mail with a link allowing him or her to view the album or albums you have made available.

The big plus: Once your relatives or friends visit your album, if they are Costco members they will be able to order prints to pick up at any Costco location they designate. They can also enjoy the mail-order delivery of all the specialty items, just as you can.

The Photo Center at costco.com is the solution for all your digital-photo needs.

—David Wight

“I have vision, and the rest of the

world wears bifocals.

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