Automatic versus Manual Processing Photo Station Company operates a printing service for customers with digital cameras. The current service, which requires employees to download photos from customer cameras, has monthly operating costs of $9,000 plus $0.20 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 xed costs will increase tc $14,000 and the variable costs of printing a photo will decline to $0.04 per photo. (a) Determine the total costs of printing 20,000 and 50,000 photos per month. Units Current Process Proposed Process 20,000 $ 3' $ 3' 50,000 5 It $ 3: (b) Determine the monthly volume at which the proposed process becomes preferable to (cost less than) the current process. at units