Photo Prints: Any suggestions on where I can email my pictures and get professional prints made?

TP75

Any suggestions on where I can email my pictures and get professional prints made?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

How "professional"? I use Costco and am very pleased.

Kozan Loc: Trenton Tennessee

Longshadow wrote:

How "professional"? I use Costco and am very pleased.

I use Nations Photo Lab. They frequently have sales on various size prints. When on sale a 16" x 20" is $7.00. They are great about remaking the print if you are not satisfied.

MPIX is also a very good lab. So is AdoramaPix. I usually download the ROES software and when I need something printed, just upload the image to them. Easy-peazy.

Kozan

farwest Loc: Utah

I just used CG Pro Prints and they have been great to work with. There was a problem with the crop of a picture they printed and they issue me a voucher to replace the print. There service department is A +. Costco has also done a great job so far also. Going to try Artbeat Studios and see if their quality warrants the high cost.

Michael1079 Loc: Indiana

TP75 wrote:

Any suggestions on where I can email my pictures and get professional prints made?

You will get a lot of great responses to this question. I've used many of them, and recently have gone with Adorama. However, if you read Consumer Reports, they rank Adorama 2nd, behind the number 1 printing service: Walgreens. (I was surprised by this!)

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

TP75 wrote:

Any suggestions on where I can email my pictures and get professional prints made?

I use COSTCO. They use Fuji paper with a chemical process.Archival quality prints. I upload the images and they can send them back to you or you can pick it up. Your choice. Superb Quality.Your choice of sizes, glossy or luster, and you control the crop. Welcome to the forum.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

For my needs, Costco does a good job.
Walgreens does not.

Strodav Loc: Houston, Tx

Over the months I have been adding to my journal entry on printing photos. The information comes from various sources. Ones to use are MPIX (gets excellent reviews), WHCC, PRO DPI, Bay Photo H&H Color Lab, Fracture. Ones not to use are CG Pro Prints (although I see there is a reply endorsing them), Adorama Pix, Walmart, Shutterfly. The only ones I have used in MPIX.com and fractureme.com. I have not had any problems with MPIX. They have a wide variety of products. Quality is great and I've never needed customer service. Just go online, pick what I want and it arrives about when they said it will. If you want something distinctive, printing on glass is pretty neat. Disadvantages are the reflections and the highlights are not as bright as prints on photopaper.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

TP75 wrote:

Any suggestions on where I can email my pictures and get professional prints made?

mPix (Miller’s)
H&H
WHCC
Bay Photo
United Promotions
Full Color
Etc.

Google ‘professional color labs’ and find one near you. More important than anything is the relationship you establish with them, and the care you take to follow their image submission requirements and color management advice.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Kozan wrote:

I use Nations Photo Lab. They frequently have sales on various size prints. When on sale a 16" x 20" is $7.00. They are great about remaking the print if you are not satisfied.

MPIX is also a very good lab. So is AdoramaPix. I usually download the ROES software and when I need something printed, just upload the image to them. Easy-peazy.

Kozan

I have used Nations Photo Lab for large prints mounted on gatorboard. Not only are they beautiful, they are packaged for shipment like they are priceless art. I was very impressed.

GA shooter Loc: Rising Fawn, GA

TP75 wrote:

Any suggestions on where I can email my pictures and get professional prints made?

Lately I’ve been using Bay Photo and am pleased with the results of their higher quality (and price) printing. I bought a sample book of the various papers they offer which really helps with choosing texture, sheen, contrast and so forth rather than guessing from how they appear on a computer screen. They have a good variety of mounting options and uploading is easy and fast. Prices are reasonable and they frequently run specials. As an aside if you are looking for inexpensive and reasonable quality framing try Hobby Lobby.

Jaackil Loc: Massachusetts

Michael1079 wrote:

You will get a lot of great responses to this question. I've used many of them, and recently have gone with Adorama. However, if you read Consumer Reports, they rank Adorama 2nd, behind the number 1 printing service: Walgreens. (I was surprised by this!)

I would question any review that lists Walgreen photos as #1. I use Walgreens a lot for quick printing because they are just down the street from me. The prints are just average at best. At worst it takes a lot of reprints to get correct colors. I would compare Walgreens to printing at home. They are cheap so I will use them to test print or for proofs before sending my final images off to Adorama or Mpix.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

There are lots of places you can do that.
Just note that all of the photo producers I know of only do standard size prints. If your image is not standard size you would do well to crop it yourself to a standard size or pack the edge with something (like a white or black border depending on how you are going to mount it) to make it a standard size. Otherwise the lab will crop it and you won't have any control of just what gets cropped.
Check the website of the photo producer you choose and make sure your photo fits the appropriate aspect ratio.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

TP75 wrote:

Any suggestions on where I can email my pictures and get professional prints made?

Wet process photo prints are easy enough to get printed anywhere. The quality is ok.

If you are looking for better quality on fine art paper, then a print lab that offers ink jet on fine art papers would provide better results. But using a color managed workflow and downloading the lab's print profiles for softproofing will ensure excellent results with no surprises. I use Bay Photo and Miller's if I need prints bigger than 17"x whatever length.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Michael1079 wrote:

You will get a lot of great responses to this question. I've used many of them, and recently have gone with Adorama. However, if you read Consumer Reports, they rank Adorama 2nd, behind the number 1 printing service: Walgreens. (I was surprised by this!)

There have certainly been times I have disagreed with Consumer Reports on subjects I was familiar with.