Digital Printing Online

[CamberwellOz]

I have tried a few companies online that print out my digital photos but I'm just not happy with the quality. I'd like to find a company that I could upload albums, choose pictues to print that were a good quality all at a fairly reasonable price.

Anyone got any ideas?

[LostThePlot]

Can I suggest you let us know who's dissapointed you so we don't recommend them?

I use Photobox for my stuff, and have no problems with it.

What sort of things are dissapointing you? Colours/delivery time....what?

[CamberwellOz]

I just got a delivery from photobox today and the print quality is really grainy. I have printed from the same digital camera before from photobox and it was fine. I have sent them back but I was just wondering if anyone knew of another company.

[Brendan]

We always use www.truprint.co.uk . Haven't had any problems yet.

[LostThePlot]

CamberwellOz Wrote:

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> I just got a delivery from photobox today and the

> print quality is really grainy. I have printed

> from the same digital camera before from photobox

> and it was fine. I have sent them back but I was

> just wondering if anyone knew of another company.

What sort of camera? What was the subject? IF a point and shoot camera some can change the ISO setting on the camera, so it may have upped it to a higher number, so increasing the "grain" in the image. Do you know what ISO the image was taken at?

[CamberwellOz]

The camera was a Canon EOS 350D and the setting was on automatic. (I must make a confession that I'm writing this on behalf of my boss :-$)

Ah, the joys of work.

[*Bob*]

Taking-up the reins of the digital/online printing thread..

I'm looking for a place to store, manage, print and share our faaamily photos.

I tried Photobox and liked it (and the prints too) but I forgot that half the point of doing was so that the faaamily could order prints too. And much of the faaamily lived overseas.

Any ideas?

[lozzyloz]

*Bob* Have a look at Flickr. It's a global service. You can add friends and family as contacts so that they can download pictures directly from your account or order prints via Flickr. It's free for a limited 100mb per month but for a smallish fee you get the premium service with full functionality.

[Keef]

Flickr is good, and you can have all your photos as private if you don't want the world and his wife looking at them.

[*Bob*]

I might let your wife look at them, Keef. She looks like the trustworthy sort.

I did initially think of Flickr, but after an (amittedly cursory) inspection I was put-off by the low freebie photo limit, talk of payments US dollars and general yahoo-ness of it all. As much as anything on the grounds that it if put me off even slightly, Auntie Thingy would lose interest immediately.

I liked Photobox because it's just a case up upload, print, next day BOSH. And their customer services seems small enough to be immediate and personal when I had some queries.

They do deliver overseas for a couple of quid extra.. but with one of our Earth Pounds buying a slap-up feed for 8 in, say, Australia, they might be put-off by the cost.

[lozzyloz]

Picassa is free and pretty easy to use if you just want simplicity. That way your auntie can print locally without worrying about exchange rates.

[*Bob*]

I'll check that mutha out, Lozzy.

Thanks to all.

[Huguenot]

Aaarggh! Google!

[Azul]

well I need a good and cheap place where I can develop 120mm films, something mail order oriented just like lovefilm.com.

where?

[furryjumpergirl]

Check these guys out: http://www.dlab7.com/dlab7_site/web/

[furryjumpergirl]

Actually, these are cheaper: http://www.spectrumimaging.co.uk/MailOrderForm.htm