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06/01/2007 02:53:45 PM · #1 |
| I am shooting a few weddings this summer and some senior portraits. I need some references for some good labs that I can have prints made. Cost could be an issue, depending on the clients, which so far, are all on budgets. |
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06/01/2007 02:58:00 PM · #2 |
You're apt to get a bunch of suggestions... I just got some prints from MPix literally 5 minutes ago and they look great!
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06/01/2007 03:00:25 PM · #3 |
| If you are a member of Costco you can't beat their prices, and I have been happy with the photo quality and service. You can upload the images and pick them up at the store in 1-4 hours, or have them mailed. |
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06/01/2007 03:02:20 PM · #4 |
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06/01/2007 03:04:08 PM · #5 |
great links, thanks guys.
not a member of costco, always had good luck at walmart, but i cant expect walmart or any other lab like that to give me consistent prints that I would need for something like this |
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06/01/2007 03:19:34 PM · #6 |
//www.snapfish.com is awesome for 4x6 prints and 8x10's and posters I use //www.elcocolor.com/
Message edited by author 2007-06-01 15:19:51.
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06/01/2007 04:04:44 PM · #7 |
bayphoto.com
profilmet.com
Both very reasonable prices. Profilmet has $1 8x10s. Quality blows away any of the Ritz or Costco junk.
JM |
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06/01/2007 04:07:28 PM · #8 |
//www.millerslab.com/
Miller's is the 'parent' of MPIX and they cater to the professional.
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06/01/2007 05:27:24 PM · #9 |
I use Sam's Club, but Costco is similar. They use Fuji Frontier or similar machines that print on photographic paper (Fuji Crystal Archive matte) and develop it with chemicals, so the prints are very good quality if you give them a good file, shouldn't fade, and are water resistant. Far from 'junk'.
The local one here is also installing a large format Epson inkjet to print bigger than 10x14, and their prices are going to be very reasonable for those prints. Not sure what kind of paper choices they're going to have, if any, so I might stick with the pro lab in the next town for big prints.
Can't beat a $1.46 8x10 or $2.96 10x14 done in under an hour. Actually, I made about 40 8x10 prints last week and they were done in 15 minutes since the printer didn't have anything else in the queue. Those machines are pretty hardcore.
The only thing I don't like about printing there is that you have to use the crappy touch-screen Fuji kiosks with disgusting idiot-proof interfaces. |
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