My wife is a scrapbook fiend, we likely print more pictures per year than many of you have in your entire life! Because of this addiction, we have spent a considerable amount of time looking at the various ways and places to get our pictures printed. We have explored printing photos at home as well as the more traditional avenue of getting prints at local stores and online vendors. While I was researching the cost per print of ordering for this post, my wife was able to rattle off the price for single, bulk, one hour and overnight processing of most of the local stores.

Let's take a look at the costs of getting your photos printed.

Do it at Home based on purchasing the ink and paper for at least 100 prints at a time.

• Inkjet starting at 15 cents per print and $50 for a printer.
• Dye sublimation starting at 28 cents per print and $150 for a printer.
  

As a business writer, I think this book is a wonderful addition to the corporate bookshelves. As a consumer, I'm not so happy.

Either way, Reed Holden and Mark Burton have a book that came out this year, Pricing with Confidence: 10 Ways to Stop Leaving Money on the Table (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). Their goal? To help companies survive during hard economic times, which is good. I support that, of course. We all do. But as a consumer, I want them to leave a little money on the table, so I can grab it up. That's why I wish their advice was along the lines of, "Give everything away for a day. Your customers will appreciate your generosity so much, that you'll win over their loyalty forever." (Hey, it might work.)

But in case you're an owner of a business who is reading this, I offer you the distilled version of the book, some do's and don'ts that came straight from the authors.