A bit of help required please....

[Fish]

Hi, just a quickie...

I took about 250 photos yesterday at my brothers wedding and Fish mentioned he had read somewhere that there is a good web based company that you can upload your photos too, and they will do you prints in superquick time... thing is I can't find which one he means and wondered if anyone else had used a particular company that they could recommend to me. Also will 200 plus photos be ok to send to them???

Cheers in advance.

[wedge girl]

www.photobox.co.uk

[HankScorpio]

www.digi-prints.co.uk

[Mrs Fish]

Thanks very much,

Has anyone personally used either of them, and if so were you pleased with the service

[wedge girl]

I used Photobox, for calanders at Christmas, they were very quick and lovely quality for the price.

Edited to add, I also bought one of Simpo Twos photos via them, so you must be able to make pictures available for other people to purchase, don't know how you do that bit though.

>> Edited by wedge girl on Sunday 13th March 16:38

[HankScorpio]

I've used digi prints and have been very happy, their website isn't the flashiest but the prices and quality are great (I *have* only done 12x8's but lots of them)

[LongQ]

FWIW the January edition of Digital Photo magazine ran an article about digital printing services and decided Photobox and Jessops came out best (5 stars) closely followed by Ofoto, D S Colourlabs, SnappySnaps and Peak Imaging. (4 stars). The other two in the test were Truprint and Fotoserve.

[simpo two]

wedge girl said:

Edited to add, I also bought one of Simpo Twos photos via them, so you must be able to make pictures available for other people to purchase, don't know how you do that bit though.

Hey, my mystery buyer emerges! Thank you so much; it was my first web-sale
Photobox are great although it can get a bit complicated. You can have public galleries, private galleries (which only you and your friends can access via password, eg for wedding photos etc), and professional galleries which anyone can see and buy from.
I was delighted with the quality of my A4 prints (I ordered 43, some of which are now mounted, framed and on exhibition) and if you get stuck, customer service is good too. Recommended.
Thanks again Wedge Girl, it's really nice that someone sees something they like so much they actually pay for it... FYI it was taken at St Osyth Priory in Essex. Hope you like Guinness, it was all I coudl find...

[V6GTO]

Try Photobucket. I think they are doing an offer of 100 free 6x4s or something similar. I had a 20"x30" of the Noble done by them which is on the wall in front of me now.

Martin.

[joust]

www.pixaco.co.uk

They are the cheapest around, the quality is superbe, and I've had 300-400 back from them no problem.

They also don't crop your pictures to make them fit, so you don't loose anything regardless of the 'format' of your digital camera.

Give them a go.

J

[mrs fish]

Thanks everyone.

I am going to give photobox a try first with a few 6x4.5's and see how they do. They only have 10 free incidentally atm

[tuscan_v8]

I have ordered over 500+ print from photobox.co.uk so far and they are excellent.

e.g - order print (approx 50 photos) at 12.00, recieved a email from them at 1.00 saying they have dispatched the photo !!

Now that is excellent service.

[CVP]

Another vote for photobox. Excellent quality and fast service.

I have used them for prints up to 12*8 and also some panoramas and it's always been top notch.

Chris

[whittaker52]

Ive always found photobox to be really good, from small 6x4 prints, upto big 30x20 prints! the quality is always fantastic, and the colours are perfect.

[parrot of doom]

Pixaco's large prints are utterly astounding.

[pmanson]

HankScorpio said:

www.digi-prints.co.uk

I tried this company.

Ordered yesterday morning and they arrived today. Top service!

[Scooby_snax]

I use Photobox for A4 and 30x20 poster size and find both quality and service excellant

[dcw@pr]

sorry I'm a bit late into this one.

I can arrange very good quality printing for preferably largeish (50+) quantities of prints. To give an idea of pricing you would probably be looking at 10-15p per 6x4, plus postage, or collection.

Another benefit is that I will personally get them printed with the people I use all the time, so they will come out properly, not just printed and sent without anyone bothering to check them first.

PM me if you are interested and I can find out details for sure.

P.S. this isn't an advert!

[Mrs Fish]

I was about to send them to photobox but they were taking so long to upload, I gave up.

I ended up printing them myself as I made them all B&W. We had some quiet time at work so I bought some paper and printed the ones I wanted. Didn't turn out too bad at all.

But I will bear you in mind for the future.

[simpo two]

Mrs Fish said:

I was about to send them to photobox but they were taking so long to upload, I gave up.

Now you realise how big your image files are