White House Custom Colour.
I use Costco for pictures,good quality and and prices.
droszel wrote:
I’ve several photos I’d like printed, suitable for framing. Any suggestions of services I can look into?
If you have one near, Sam's Club does a fine job (opinion). Up to 24x36, I believe.
Shop while you wait.
Not to your liking, no obligation to pay.
Bill
Maybe we should also ask who to stay away from and why.
Gene51
Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)
droszel wrote:
I’ve several photos I’d like printed, suitable for framing. Any suggestions of services I can look into?
Size?
Budget?
Medium? Wide gamut inkjet on fine art rag paper? Cheap photo print on photo paper? Glass? Metal? Canvas?
Are your images "print ready" - did you prepare them on a computer with a profiled display using a managed color workflow? Do you have the ability to soft proof an image with a print-lab provided paper and ink profile?
How quickly do you need them?
There are dozens of print labs, that offer cheap photo prints. If you want something better, Miller's, which has a good selection of fine art paper, Candela Fine Art Printing, WhiteWall, BayPhoto, or WHCC which has a more limited selection of fine art paper. Grapheteria uses Epson Ultrachrome inks and papers, as well as others.
It's hard to categorize prints made on Kodak or Fuji photo paper (what you get when you pay a couple of dollars for an 8x10) as "excellent quality" especially when you compare them to wide gamut inkjet results. These cheap prints are made on a production Lambda, Lightjet or Chromira (all use laser light source), or Chromira (uses LED), and exposes on to photo paper and wet processed. Your paper choices are limited, and paper is usually very thin, compared to heavy weight cotton rag fine art papers.
I would use Mpix, national photo lab, bay photo. I think they all still use silver halide process. Costco, Fedex and all those local services use ink jet technology.
coolhanduke wrote:
I would use Mpix, national photo lab, bay photo. I think they all still use silver halide process. Costco, Fedex and all those local services use ink jet technology.
Couldbe different Costcos use different processes? The Costco near me purports to use a photographic process (I asked - unless they changed).
Longshadow wrote:
For printing I like using Costco, which is only about 6 miles from me.
Costco (near me) does not print big enough to do a five image Panorama ( already stitched ) to a final image of 12 x 44 inches I want to mat and frame to 15X49 framed for a friend. I picked up a nerly new Epson R1900 that will do 13x44 on roll feed paper. A 22 foot paper roll from Epson is $22. That should print almost 6 of those 44" panorama's
Price for one from On line Printers appears to come to $H60-80 plus shipping (Again juat one). Think I will taka a stab at this myself. (What??? room to blow out 4 before I take a loss). High expectations, yeah???
Kuzano wrote:
Costco (near me) does not print big enough to do a five image Panorama ( already stitched ) to a final image of 12 x 44 inches I want to mat and frame to 15X49 framed for a friend. I picked up a nerly new Epson R1900 that will do 13x44 on roll feed paper. A 22 foot paper roll from Epson is $22. That should print almost 6 of those 44" panorama's
Price for one from On line Printers appears to come to $H60-80 plus shipping (Again juat one). Think I will taka a stab at this myself. (What??? room to blow out 4 before I take a loss). High expectations, yeah???
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Have you checked the UPS Store? I saw a printer in one store with a roll of five foot something in it.
I use Dale Labs in Hollywood Florida. They really do a great job
Check out
https://www.americanframe.comModerate prices, good choice for everyday and fine art prints, plus great pricing on DIY framing. I use them for large prints that I can't do.
droszel wrote:
I’ve several photos I’d like printed, suitable for framing. Any suggestions of services I can look into?
Whatever print service you end up with, remind them SEVERAL times if you want them to correct the images or not.
I finally found a service that listens to me and my "check box" answer that I don't want them to correct things.
The worst offender is the one people here like alot that starts woth the letter "M". They do good work it just that it take them several attempts after several phone calls. For me at least.
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