Professional prints

[Jo-grez]

Has anyone used the printing booth that you get in the photoshops? Kodak do one that's advertised on the TV at the moment.

I've got lots of digital photos and I should really get round to printing some of the best ones but I wonder if the prints in the shops are really any better than my HP deskjet colour printer.

[StuartDH]

Hi Jo,

I've not used one of the printing booths myself, but I was talking to someone at the weekend who has and whilst they said that the quality was very good, at £1 per photo they also thought that it's a rip off.

I'd no idea that it cost that much per print and I'm sure there are plenty of places on the web that can digi-print and post the results back to you for far less.

[fbcpmike]

You will find places like Asda and Boots do offers on printing digital photos, Asda is doing a 50 for £5. I have a 3 mega pixel camera and have found the prints (6 x 4) to be excellent on gloss paper.

Mike

[Jo-grez]

Crikey, thanks Mike, I didn't know about Asda doing 50 for £5...that's almost cheap

I've got hundreds of photos sitting on PC that should really go into frames or at least a couple of albums.

[fbcpmike]

Boots were doing a similar offer at one time, but I found that the first 50 were 10p each and any remaining were 15p. I have yet to try Asda and see if 100 prints could be done for 2 sets of 50 (my camera will hold aout 150 3Mb photos).

Look at the local camera shops as well, my local one is doing a similar offer to Asda.

You don't have to print all photos, you can download to a pc, select what you want, weed out the duff ones and upload them back to the camera. But watch out for any photos you have processed on the pc, if you alter the aspect ratio (eg rotate a photo) they will not go back to the camera properly.

[Jo-grez]

I got some of my digi photos developed at Jessops in the end at 15p each. The quality is great and I'd highly recommend them. Next time I'm near an Asda I'll have a go in there as well.

[fbcpmike]

I had 109 processed for £10 at Asda last week, good quality prints. They will if not to busy, do the prints while we do the shopping, drop off when we go in and pick up when we leave. However the machine they use to read the memory prices the prints individually and in $, our 109 apparently was $16.50 !.
The machine will not allow you to print 50 selected from say 80 without taking all day about it, so it's easier to select what you want to print on your pc and load them back to the camera for printing.

[Pat]

I know this is a bit late but I've only just joined! I take a lot of digital photos and have tried a few shops but didn't think much of the quality, my friend said to try www.photobox.co.uk so I did, you just send them from your computer to them and you get them back within 2 days, exellent quality prints at about 15p each and no having to go to the shop,it's so easy I wouldn't get mine printed anywhere else. Pat.

[Scenicview]

Well worth giving www.bonusprint.co.uk a go as well. Their free downloadable software is very user friendly - even allows for postioning of images when the image ratio doesn't match the print size ratio.

Cheap too which helps.

[stulast]

Well I am going to add to all this. I have found that if you are lucky enough to have a camera shop that is not part of the big chains (jessops, Reeds etc) then it is worth paying them a visit. THe bonus of actually going in to a photo shop above all else is that the paper they print to and the dyes they use are far more fade resisitant than using an inkjet printer or going to a photo booth. Another bonus is that if you have specific requirements (for example enlarged or cropped images) you can request that as part of the processing.