It is true that 4x6 prints crop part of the digital image (unless you have a camera that has an option to create images in that ratio to begin with, as my previous Sony DSC-7 had.)
However, I use the Kodak machine at the supermarket where I get my pictures printed to review each image and change the cropping if need be. It also gives me the option to enhance images, which is useful for those that are too dark or bright. It is time-consuming, although you get the hang of using the touchscreen terminal pretty quickly, but it is worthwhile since you end up with prints that are cropped the way you want. (Not time-consuming of course if you are only doing a handful of prints, but I recently came back from vacation and printed about 100 prints on each of three occasions. It took close to an hour each time to get what I wanted.)
As for quality, there is no comparison. Home prints suck!
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It is true that 4x6 prints crop part of the digital image (unless you have a camera that has an option to create images in that ratio to begin with, as my previous Sony DSC-7 had.) However, I use the Kodak machine at the supermarket where I get my pictures printed to review each image and change the cropping if need be. It also gives me the option to enhance images, which is useful for those that are too dark or bright. It is time-consuming, although you get the hang of using the touchscreen terminal pretty quickly, but it is worthwhile since you end up with prints that are cropped the way you want. (Not time-consuming of course if you are only doing a handful of prints, but I recently came back from vacation and printed about 100 prints on each of three occasions. It took close to an hour each time to get what I wanted.) As for quality, there is no comparison. Home prints suck!