Online Printing Services

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Muncher

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12,219 posts

250 months

Saturday 16th April 2005
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I've got a few images which I need printing, up to A4 size.

I just tried ASDA but their machine would only allow you to print ever image on the card at once, all in the same size, they also wanted £3.50 odd for an A4 image.

The Kodak machine in Tesco was broken (they couldn't fit the roll of reciept paper in it

What's the best (read cheapest) online service to use?

trevorw

2,875 posts

283 months

Saturday 16th April 2005
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I believ www.photobox.com is pretty cheap and will do that size i'm sure and bigger for a very good price

HankScorpio

715 posts

238 months

Saturday 16th April 2005
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mrs fish

30,018 posts

259 months

Saturday 16th April 2005
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I used digi-prints a couple of weeks ago and was very impressed with the service

HankScorpio

715 posts

238 months

Saturday 16th April 2005
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One order of mine went astray in the post (which I can't blame them for) and they dispatched a new set after 14 days at no charge.

beano500

20,854 posts

276 months

Saturday 16th April 2005
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trevorw said:
I believ www.photobox.com is pretty cheap and will do that size i'm sure and bigger for a very good price
I also use Photobox. After a few weeks they prompted me that I hadn't ordered anything using the "credits" they give you for signing up. So I ended up with a handful of 6" x 4" which only cost the £1.50 postage

simpo two

85,529 posts

266 months

Saturday 16th April 2005
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www.photobox.co.uk here too. I ordered 20+ A4 prints and they were not only just £1.54 each, they were stonkingly good - just like you imagine them to be but can never do on your inkjet.

agent006

12,040 posts

265 months

Saturday 16th April 2005
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Photobox here too. Did a direct comparison with a few others (similar pics all ordered at the same time). Whilst not the cheapest they were by far the quickest and with no difference in quality. For reference, pixaco took the longest, as they seem to ship from germany.

fatsteve

1,143 posts

278 months

Saturday 16th April 2005
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Probably a stupid question, but are you sizing the image yourself or just uploading a high res image and letting them do the resizing. Just pondering because there's a couple of pic's I took that I'd like to blow up to A2 or A1 (my 2100 only does A3+).

I'd assume if you sized it yourself the quality would be better (assuming they just automate the resizing) given that you can have a few goes at getting it right (stair resizing etc).

Cheers

Steve

joust

14,622 posts

260 months

Saturday 16th April 2005
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www.pixaco.co.uk

Same quality (done on a Fuji chemical printer), just ~half the price of others...

J

pmanson

13,382 posts

254 months

Sunday 17th April 2005
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mrs fish said:
I used digi-prints a couple of weeks ago and was very impressed with the service


Yep got a couple of 8x10's done with them. Top service.