Need to use a New Photo Lab
Sep 11, 2019 18:57:54 #
Our local Lab in town just closed their door's due to retirement. Any suggestion on to where I should get my photo's printed? I know I can use Walgreens in a pinch, just want to keep the professional I had before.
Sep 11, 2019 19:21:31 #
Sep 11, 2019 19:46:22 #
Do not, repeat do not, send your carefully created images to Bay Photo Imaging in Santa Cruz, CA. I just had one of the worst experiences ever with an order for two 5x7” prints from Bay. The order was never printed and it was just ten days completely wasted.
Sep 11, 2019 19:47:06 #
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Sep 11, 2019 20:08:20 #
There is a photography store within 6 miles of me, but I usually use FedEx Office because I like the paper they have there. Have also used other office supply stores that have print services.
Sep 11, 2019 20:16:29 #
cahale
Loc: San Angelo, TX
Rome should have other members of our, or a similar, group. And one or more of them will probably have a large format printer (Epson, HP, or Canon), and will do your prints for you. (I do locally). And they will probably charge you less than the commercial establishment.
Sep 11, 2019 20:16:37 #
rjaywallace wrote:
Do not, repeat do not, send your carefully created images to Bay Photo Imaging in Santa Cruz, CA. I just had one of the worst experiences ever with an order for two 5x7” prints from Bay. The order was never printed and it was just ten days completely wasted.
They screwed up a two print order!!!
As long as we're over reacting
Behead them. Close down the business!!!
Buy a Polaroid.
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Sep 11, 2019 20:21:44 #
dgrim23 wrote:
Our local Lab in town just closed their door's due to retirement. Any suggestion on to where I should get my photo's printed? I know I can use Walgreens in a pinch, just want to keep the professional I had before.
Google ‘professional color lab’. Most of the results are labs with whom I’m familiar from my 33 years in the business. The vast majority of them are fine.
Whichever you pick, *call* them and start a dialogue about your needs and how they can fulfill them.
Sep 11, 2019 20:46:23 #
Bill_de wrote:
They screwed up a two print order! As long as we're over reacting.
Behead them. Close down the business! Buy a Polaroid.
Behead them. Close down the business! Buy a Polaroid.
Sorry, Willy old boy, you weren’t on the phone with them constantly over ten days. You weren’t lied to repeatedly about what they were able to do and when they would do it. And, in the end, another branch of their fine customer non-service team surfaced to say they never should have taken the assignment. Don’t know about you, pal, but I’ve got better uses for my time. I’m trying to mount two exhibitions and need to know whether this image will be included. If they can’t handle it, they should have just said so early on. It’s not their skills I’m doubting, it’s their service reputation and the capability of their senior management. 👎🏻👎🏻
Sep 11, 2019 20:52:00 #
burkphoto wrote:
Google ‘professional color lab’. Most of the results are labs with whom I’m familiar from my 33 years in the business. The vast majority of them are fine. Whichever you pick, *call* them and start a dialogue about your needs and how they can fulfill them.
Great advice, Bill! But many of the labs these days are ‘fly-by-night’ and don’t provide a phone number that anyone can call. They live on email or texts. It’s just maddening!
Sep 11, 2019 20:56:21 #
Sep 11, 2019 21:05:05 #
rjaywallace wrote:
Great advice, Bill! But many of the labs these days are ‘fly-by-night’ and don’t provide a phone number that anyone can call. They live on email or texts. It’s just maddening!
Full Color
H&H
Nations Photo
Kenny Color
UPI Lab
WHCC (White House Custom Color)
Nash Editions
Miller’s and MPIX
Just a few...
Sep 11, 2019 21:17:55 #
Local lab is still the best.
Chain - Costco.
Specialty national - The Darkroom (San Clemente)
Andy
Chain - Costco.
Specialty national - The Darkroom (San Clemente)
Andy
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