Poster size prints

[david_s]

Can anyone advise as to the best place to get some large prints taken from digital photos? I had a series of professional product photographs taken and would like to get some large prints to hang on the wall at work, each file is about 20MB and I would like some prints about 20" x 30" (or whatever the format ratio is). Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[_dobbo_]

I'll be the first to recommend www.photobox.co.uk

I've had a few 20x30 prints done and they've all been excellent quality.

[GetCarter]

I'll be the second then.

[david_s]

Thanks. I use Photobox for standard prints, thought I would have to use somewhere a bit more specialized for big stuff.

[speedychrissie]

i havent used photobox for any enlargements, but they are good for small prints. pixum (as far as i can tell) are just as good for small prints, and i have had a few of their 12*18 inch enlargements which were also excellent.

pixums 20*30s are about £9 for one or about £6 each for 3 or more i think, whereas photoboxes are about £18 for one. i dont know if there is a particular reason for the difference (ie, one might use better paper etc) but it may be worth looking into them as it could save you about £35 if you were doing 3 prints.

[david_s]

I will be getting about a dozen done so will check Pixums as well.

All the files seem to be saved as .tiff at present, is this usual? I suppose I will have to save as .jpg to upload?

[GetCarter]

You do with Photobox. Stating obvious but make sure you set jpg compression to minimum when you convert!

[crmcatee]

vote of confidence for pixum here..

[david_s]

Couldn't upload to Pixum for some reason, so uploaded to Photobox and ordered from there. I have ordered 7 off 30" x 20" to check the quality before ordering more, cost was £93ish inc delivery. Each image ended up about 6.5Mb as a jpeg, I will let you know how they come out.

Now I just need some kind of frame.....