Automatic versus Manual Processing Bartell's, a Seattle area drug store, operates an in-store printing service for customers with digital cameras. The current service, which requires employees to download photos from customer cameras, has monthly operating costs of $5,500 plus $0.15 per photo printed. Management is evaluating the desirability of acquiring a machine that will allow customers to download and make prints without employee assistance. If the machine is acquired, the monthly fixed costs will increase to $7,000 and the variable costs of printing a photo will decline to $0.05 per photo. (a) Determine the total costs of printing 10,000 and 25,000 photos per month: 1. With the current employee-assisted process. 2. With the proposed customer self-service process. Units Current Process Proposed Process 10,000 $ 25,000 $ $ $ (b) Determine the monthly volume at which the proposed process becomes preferable to (costs less than) the current process. units