You're assuming that all

You're assuming that all photos are sent in raw format. Generally they'll use some sort of compression, even when transferring to the printer. Also, the reason Photoshop takes so long to save is it needs to compress the photo before saving it --- this involves CPU usage, not just disk usage.

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