Cosco and Sams no longer have a photo department
Dec 28, 2019 08:22:41 #
BarbK wrote:
The Costco and Sam's Club near me have eliminated ... (show quote)
Mpix...they are great!
Dec 28, 2019 08:29:23 #
BarbK wrote:
The Costco and Sam's Club near me have eliminated ... (show quote)
Do you mean that they no longer stock cameras and equipment, or that their photo print shop has been shut down, or possibly even both?
Dec 28, 2019 08:38:04 #
So are ALL Costco photo centers going away (which the thread title implies),
or just the low volume/profit ones?
If everyone goes someplace else because they heard that Costco Photo Centers are closing,
that'll surely help kill them.
or just the low volume/profit ones?
If everyone goes someplace else because they heard that Costco Photo Centers are closing,
that'll surely help kill them.
Dec 28, 2019 09:09:52 #
Archboo3
Loc: Central Florida
Our Sams Club in Sanford Florida just dumped their camera department. I'm wondering about the local Drug stores, The last time I looked they still had some equipment in their stores. I know the local target had store a good while back.
Dec 28, 2019 10:06:45 #
BarbK wrote:
The Costco and Sam's Club near me have eliminated ... (show quote)
For Costco go to https://www.costco.com/, select "Find a Store" at the top of the page, insert your Zip-Code and check the Photo Center box and click on the "Find a Warehouse" button at the bottom of the dropdown. A map will then appear with a list of Costco Warehouses in the left column in order of distance from your location.
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Dec 28, 2019 10:16:14 #
Dec 28, 2019 10:21:38 #
I have had great success with Walmart amazingly enough. I will say that some of my clients printed at Costco and they made terrible work of my photos. No depth in color and they were grainy. When the client printed elsewhere these problems didn’t exist. Very strange!
Dec 28, 2019 10:31:55 #
Dec 28, 2019 10:46:31 #
Lab choice reality check:
If you don’t set the white balance correctly...
If you don’t use a monitor made for photography and graphic arts...
If you don’t calibrate that monitor monthly with a hardware-based solution (colorimeter or spectrophotometer from X-Rite or Datacolor)...
If you don’t send an industry standard reference image to your lab and compare the print they make to the image on your screen to check calibration accuracy (and recalibrate to different “aim points”)...
If you don’t use the lab’s preferred ICC profile...
If you don’t use the lab’s printer profile as your proofing profile...
Then don’t complain about print quality!
Communicate with your lab! Ask them about everything I mentioned above. I’m pretty sure they’ll tell you the same, if they are honest. (And if they’re pros!)
Otherwise, you can pay them extra to adjust your images, and still get inferior results.
If you don’t set the white balance correctly...
If you don’t use a monitor made for photography and graphic arts...
If you don’t calibrate that monitor monthly with a hardware-based solution (colorimeter or spectrophotometer from X-Rite or Datacolor)...
If you don’t send an industry standard reference image to your lab and compare the print they make to the image on your screen to check calibration accuracy (and recalibrate to different “aim points”)...
If you don’t use the lab’s preferred ICC profile...
If you don’t use the lab’s printer profile as your proofing profile...
Then don’t complain about print quality!
Communicate with your lab! Ask them about everything I mentioned above. I’m pretty sure they’ll tell you the same, if they are honest. (And if they’re pros!)
Otherwise, you can pay them extra to adjust your images, and still get inferior results.
Dec 28, 2019 10:56:28 #
dandev
Loc: Enumclaw, WA
Another vote for White House Custom Colour. Plus - I broke down and bought a Canon Pro-1000 printer this month.
Dec 28, 2019 11:23:53 #
BarbK wrote:
The Costco and Sam's Club near me have eliminated ... (show quote)
The in store photography departments in our Costco’s in San Ramon and Concord (CA) are still open. Aside from MPIX, I use BayPhoto (Scott’s Valley, CA) and White Wall (Germany), which I think are also both outstanding! I find MPIX to be the best of the three for skin tones.
Dec 28, 2019 15:21:49 #
BarbK wrote:
The Costco and Sam's Club near me have eliminated ... (show quote)
I use Printique, which is the new name for Adorama Pix. If you get on their mailing list, You will see when they have sales. I save up what I want printed and then upload to their site when they have a sale. I have been very happy with them
Dec 28, 2019 15:33:34 #
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Dec 28, 2019 16:08:33 #
Badgertale
Loc: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Talked to a lab tech at the only Costco in my area with a lab...still... and he said they are just not making money at it. They will be closing our lab in Albuquerque in about 5 years. Too bad, too.
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