Need a Digital Photo Lab

[Jenny Taillier]

Does anyone have a recommendation for digital film printing? Preferably one that accepts a CDRom in the post rather than compresses them onto email.

My developer charges a fortune so I need to find an alternative. For a roll of 36 normal photos they charged about £9 to develop and print on 7 1/2 x 5. To print off 36 digi images (no developing costs incurred of course) they want £19! Seems a bit steep to me.

TIA

[pdV6]

Boots will do 50 6x4s from CD overnight for £5

[pmanson]

Used these with no problems - www.digi-prints.co.uk

Ordered Monday morning and arrived Tuesday morning.

6x4 glossy - 12p each
7x5 glossy - 20p each

[MikeyT]

Have been using photobox.co.uk

Good prices, excellent quality and there in the morning - can't fault 'em!

[Incorrigible]

Got mine done at boots too

What do you want to do ? get digital photos from 35mm or Print photos from CD

[Jenny Taillier]

Print photos from CD.

After making that post I searched around and found InternetPhotosDirect. They allow you to upload images by ftp and don’t compress.

All looks very user friendly so I am going to give them a try. Anyone here used them?

At 7 ½ x 5 they charge 24p each for 20 or more so for comparison 36 images would be £8.64 – much more reasonable and a little less than I used to pay for a roll of film to be d&p.

Thanks

[parrot of doom]

www.pixaco.co.uk

No compression, I uploaded a HUGE file to them for a poster

[GreigM]

definitely use photobox.co.uk - excellent service and great prints.

[Mrs Fish]

MikeyT said:

Have been using photobox.co.uk Good prices, excellent quality and there in the morning - can't fault 'em!

Do you upload them to their site?

If so, what size are your pictures working out to, to get a decent print?

I gave up sending anything because they took an age to upload, so I reckon I must have been trying to send pics that were too big.

[pmanson]

I uploaded my photos to www.digi-prints.co.uk and they were taken on the highest settings on my 5mp pixel camera.

Great quality!

[mcflurry]

Jessops do 40 6x4s for £3.99 from cd or card. At the moment they are doing 7x5s for the same price (10p each minimum 40) overnight.

Boots, 10p for 6x4, 15p for 7x5 each overnight or for 1 hour service they start at 20p for 24 square inches.

Local indy does 50 for a fiver, snappy snaps does 100 for £20 if you want them instantly...

[Incorrigible]

Most of the high street people offer this service

Personally I get mine from Fotango, you can organise them and send low res versions to your makes then (they store the high res versions so they can make money printing them for people who you send the low res versions to (if that makes sense))

Slightly cheaper per print too

[Jenny Taillier]

Just discovered that InternetPhotosDirect are infact Photobox.

[Mrs Fish]

pmanson said:

Used these with no problems - www.digi-prints.co.uk Ordered Monday morning and arrived Tuesday morning. 6x4 glossy - 12p each 7x5 glossy - 20p each

What a faff this site is. I uploaded about 30 pics but was then logged off, re logged in and uploaded 20 more but they are not in the same folder, the only way I can get the previous 30 into my basket is to now do them one by one as a reprint now missed the 3pm deadline.

Will try photobox again next time