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Printing Photography for display

Posted by Maxine on December 11, 2014 at 4:13pm

Have any of you sourced to the cheaper online printing for your large format framed images? With all of the low price online printing competitors these days (shutterfly, mpix, bay, snapfish, etc.) it's becoming tempting to test the quality of these prints. I have an Epson for 17x22 or smaller prints but have a lab print anything bigger.

Snapfish is $19.99 for a 30x40 print before the 60% coupon... talk about saving on overhead. Shutterfly is $22ish before a coupon as well.

WOULD or HAVE any of you used these printing sources for large format prints (30x40 or larger)?

If these companies are using the same or comparable equipment, just pressing a 'print' button, it's worth the savings, right?

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  • Alison Thomas December 15, 2014 at 9:11am

    I use Bay Photo for printing my larger images by order.  Everything that I sell in my booth I print myself.  One thing to note - be sure and change your color space to sRGB before sending out your file.  I've gotten some pretty weird colors by forgetting to do that.  Also be sure to change to sRGB on your jury images.

  • Larry Berman December 11, 2014 at 7:20pm

    I don't see any issues. I regularly use Sam's Club for most of my printing. They use the same printers as the custom labs.

    Larry Berman
    http://BermanGraphics.com
    412-401-8100

    • Maxine > Larry Berman December 12, 2014 at 10:02am

      Thanks, Larry.

      Do you have and experience with Snapfish? I've seen mixed reviews for quality but apparently Costco printing is powered by Snapfish.

      • Larry Berman > Maxine December 12, 2014 at 1:36pm
        When I use places like that, I bring my images to the store on compact flash cards and wait while they are printing. The best time of day is when they open on a week day morning. That's when they calibrate the machine. The calibration is done by printing a test pattern and then inputting back into the machine to read the neutral tones. That's about the only time I can get neutral black and white prints.

        Larry Berman
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