phone prints from camera phone

[Lois]

Have a 2mega pixel camera phone and some really good pics on it which I'd like to print off. My local photo centre has a machine thingy which can print them straight from my phone's memory card.
Has anyone ever done this and what was the print quality like?

[john75]

Not done that myself but I would like to as I have got some really great Le Mans pictures on my phone.

[princeperch]

why not link it up to your computer if you got the software and leads with the phone and get some photo paper, and print them off at home?

[Parrot of Doom]

The quality will be shit. Basically.

[Lois]

Would the quality not be better from a photo centre rather than my old printer though?!

[julianhj]

I've used the Kodak ones in my local Boots and was impressed.

[princeperch]

Parrot of Doom said:

The quality will be shit. Basically.

Ive got a kodak photo printer thing (paid £100 in a sale couple of months ago), and when I print off with photo paper, as long as the DPI (is that right?) isnt too "diluted" the quality seems pretty good to me...

[tomtom]

Probably. Best bet is to use www.photobox.co.uk . I've used them in the past for printing digital photos and a photography company I used to work for had all their material printed by them.

They offer all sorts of sizes of print, some more appropriate to phone cameras. Just upload the files to them and they arrive next day, usually.



edit: They're also offering 30 free prints to new members. Nothing to lose!

>> Edited by tomtom on Sunday 26th February 18:58

[bluespanner]

i print off my D600 on a self service machine in Max Spielmann, as long as you use 6 X 4 paper (and have remembered to set phone to max resolution) it comes out alright.
Roland

[Lois]

Well when I get the pics up on my PC the resolution looks quite good. Pretty much as good as the digi camera, might give it a go tomorrow. Can get them for 10p or something.

[paulie-mafia]

You can enhance the images from your handset using third party software. If you have Adobe Photoshop, then use the brightness / contrast options to adjust the image before printing. If you use a Mac then drop the pics into the standard iPhoto software, then hit 'enhance' in the options for each image and this usually sharpens things up perfectly.

[wanty1974]

The rule of thumb is use a decent high-street shop like Max Spielman or Jessops and not Tesco or ASDA, although the latter can also print from camera phones I wouldn't rely on the expertise of the bloke in charge!

[Lois]

haha I know the bloke in-charge

[ninemill]

Just used the Max Spielman automatic photo printer thing in store and the photos came out great. For the price (19p for a 6x4" print) it's just not worth printing them out at home once you've bought the printer and replaced cartridges etc.

I printed mine from a CD but I'm pretty sure you can send your photos from a phone to the kiosk using bluetooth or infrared as well.

Highly recommended!

[Lois]

were the ones from the CD off a phone?

[ninemill]

No they were stock images I'd bought at work and then printed. They were really good quality images so they will probably look slightly better than ones from a phone, but I think a 2 megapixel phone pic will print pretty well as long as you don't want them too big.

You could head down there and run a few off as a test, only cost you 60p!!

[chris.mapey]

Another vote for Photobox - I have their details in my phone and I can MMS the picture straight up to them.

Quality is great, no complaints for "snaps"

Chris

[R TOY]

Parrot of Doom said:

The quality will be shit. Basically.

I take a lot on my sony ericson K750i(2mpxl) and i've been amazed at the quality. For normal photo size prints no probs, A4 not so good. Need to have good light for the shot, no good at night.

[Lois]

it's only 6x4's I want. If I have time tomorrow evening I'll nip up as the guy I know should be workin so can prob get them run off quicker!!

[R TOY]

And you can talk to people on it to