digital printing?

[julianhj]

Can anyone recommend the best place, in their experience, for printing digital pics? I've got quite a few images I want to get printed to a reasonable size - not quite poster size, but maybe A3 to A4.

[agent006]

photobox are the best i've used. I did a direct comparison with pixaco (a3 print, same image) and although the quality was no different, the photobox one turned up two days later whereas the pixaco one took week and came from gernany.

[Mrs Fish]

for photobox

[HankScorpio]

www.digi-prints.com

(And they've just lowered their prices)

[marctwo]

Can't beat photobox in my optinion, although Superdrugs and ASDAs are pretty cheap.

[pmanson]

HankScorpio said:

www.digi-prints.com (And they've just lowered their prices)

Use this lot all the time.

[joust]

www.pixaco.co.uk

It's half the price of others for large stuff (18x12 for £2.19 rather than £5+ at the others), and uses a Fuji lab printer just like all the others do.

In lab printers the lasers image directly onto the paper, rather than imaging onto a drum and then transferring the image via toner. You just can't tell them apart from photos.

They come from Germany so expect delivery in 2-3 days.

J



>> Edited by joust on Monday 16th May 15:01

[andybuk99]

it depends on if you need them correctly colour corrected, cropped etc. if you do take them to a local lab to tell them exactly what you want if not, one of the above.

[badbeachbuggy]

Another vote for photobox here

[joust]

andybuk99 said:

it depends on if you need them correctly colour corrected, cropped etc. if you do take them to a local lab to tell them exactly what you want if not, one of the above.

If you use a sRGB colour space in your workflow you can do any colour correction yourslef....

A lot of them offer cropping services as well - but then you could always crop them in paint / photoshop / PSP / whatever!

J

[HankScorpio]

After the raves on here, I tried ordering a variety photobox items with my pics from last weeekends BTCC qualifying (now available in wallpaper format ).

Results so far:
1 order 6x9's completed ok
1 order panoramic completed ok
(quality of these is very high indeed)
1 order for poster and mousemat was cancelled by me for having the wrong shipping address (5 mins after submission)
Partial refund recieved less 47p
Remaining refund recieved (47p)
Order for poster and mousemat resubmitted
Mousemat from original order has been dispatched
Mousemat from second order has been dispatched
1 charge for mousemat has been refunded.
Second, valid order has been cancelled.
Original duff order is "part processed" and presumably progressing.

I know I should have been more carefull submitting the order but how tough can it be to cancel an order?

Anyway, the products I have recieved so far have been excellent and the prices drop significantly for volumes, so if they don't screw up any further, they may just have a convert...!