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In alphabetical order, best values marked with green, yellow is the best deal, but you have to order ALOT.

 
I just recently used their service in the uk.

Great simple software for upload. Or send them a cd.

Amazing quality in comparison to top inject. Paper more hardwaring, so ink drops. Waterpoof etc.

They also offer digital and conventional paper sizes. Most consumer digital photos have to be cropped to fit on 4 x 6. But they offer slight larger / smaller sizes to fit the actual out of camera picture. Great.

Give them a try - you won't regret!

Cheers
 
Thanks for recommending us, Jonathan - I work at Bonusprint. Anthony
Jonathan Orford said:
I just recently used their service in the uk.

Great simple software for upload. Or send them a cd.

Amazing quality in comparison to top inject. Paper more hardwaring,
so ink drops. Waterpoof etc.

They also offer digital and conventional paper sizes. Most consumer
digital photos have to be cropped to fit on 4 x 6. But they offer
slight larger / smaller sizes to fit the actual out of camera
picture. Great.

Give them a try - you won't regret!

Cheers
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Anthony Ward said:
Thanks for recommending us, Jonathan - I work at Bonusprint. Anthony
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Dies this have anything to do with why you requested that the list be in alphabetical order? :-)

Wayne Larmon
Anthony Ward said:
Jonathan Orford said:
I just recently used their service in the uk.

Great simple software for upload. Or send them a cd.

Amazing quality in comparison to top inject. Paper more hardwaring,
so ink drops. Waterpoof etc.

They also offer digital and conventional paper sizes. Most consumer
digital photos have to be cropped to fit on 4 x 6. But they offer
slight larger / smaller sizes to fit the actual out of camera
picture. Great.

Give them a try - you won't regret!

Cheers
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Purely coincidental! Actually, I believe I asked for it to be in ascending price order. Either way suits us!! Anthony
Wayne Larmon said:
Anthony Ward said:
Thanks for recommending us, Jonathan - I work at Bonusprint. Anthony
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Dies this have anything to do with why you requested that the list
be in alphabetical order? :-)

Wayne Larmon
Wayne Larmon said:
Jonathan Orford said:
I just recently used their service in the uk.

Great simple software for upload. Or send them a cd.

Amazing quality in comparison to top inject. Paper more hardwaring,
so ink drops. Waterpoof etc.

They also offer digital and conventional paper sizes. Most consumer
digital photos have to be cropped to fit on 4 x 6. But they offer
slight larger / smaller sizes to fit the actual out of camera
picture. Great.

Give them a try - you won't regret!

Cheers
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Anthony,

Hope to see a couple of options in the future.

Pearl and matt photos.
White borders.
Thanks
Anthony Ward said:
Jonathan Orford said:
I just recently used their service in the uk.

Great simple software for upload. Or send them a cd.

Amazing quality in comparison to top inject. Paper more hardwaring,
so ink drops. Waterpoof etc.

They also offer digital and conventional paper sizes. Most consumer
digital photos have to be cropped to fit on 4 x 6. But they offer
slight larger / smaller sizes to fit the actual out of camera
picture. Great.

Give them a try - you won't regret!

Cheers
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Oleg K said:
From now on i will post the information on this website:

http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~okikin/printprice/onlineprinting.htm

if you find something cheap, post it on this forum, and i will add
it to the list.
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Adorama

http://www.adorama.com/catalog.tpl?op=prolab_digital_front&sid=10425076172064161

$.29/4x6, $.69/8x10, $2.99/8x10. Glossy or matte, borderless or white border, all at the same price. Shipping is $2.49 for the first 50 prints. I've had turnaround times of 4-5 days, using USPS. (I'm only several hundred miles away from them.)

If you are color managed, they have a DryCreek profile for their printer and will turn off auto-correction, if you ask in the comments field of the ordering program. They use Kodak Royal paper and Noritsu printers, at 320 PPI.

I've had good luck with them. At the risk of irritating Anthony, I'll say that I've found that my Adorama prints were slightly more saturated then the prints I got back from Bonus Print. Using the same image files (I was testing.)

Wayne Larmon
 
Hi Wayne - saturation is a setting like any other - we try to strike the right balance with it as, I'm sure, do Adorama. It's pretty subjective and depends on preferences and equipment. I personally wouldn't want to up our saturation any further. Anthony
Wayne Larmon said:
$.29/4x6, $.69/8x10, $2.99/8x10. Glossy or matte, borderless or
white border, all at the same price. Shipping is $2.49 for the
first 50 prints. I've had turnaround times of 4-5 days, using
USPS. (I'm only several hundred miles away from them.)

If you are color managed, they have a DryCreek profile for their
printer and will turn off auto-correction, if you ask in the
comments field of the ordering program. They use Kodak Royal paper
and Noritsu printers, at 320 PPI.

I've had good luck with them. At the risk of irritating Anthony,
I'll say that I've found that my Adorama prints were slightly more
saturated then the prints I got back from Bonus Print. Using the
same image files (I was testing.)

Wayne Larmon
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Anthony Ward said:
Hi Wayne - saturation is a setting like any other - we try to
strike the right balance with it as, I'm sure, do Adorama. It's
pretty subjective and depends on preferences and equipment. I
personally wouldn't want to up our saturation any further. Anthony
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Anthony,

It sounds as though you need two processing flows depending on your customer requirements. One is a full-auto, fix the mis-exposed, blown-backgroud, color cast prints that I am sure you get all to many of. The Agfa d-TFS wizardry does an excellent job with these. The place the automatic correction algorithms fall on their face, as do those by Fuji and Noritsu, is when they are presented with an already correct image. This is particularly true if a photographer used creative lighting or Photoshop techniques to acheive a desired effect.

The way to nail your customer's expectations is to provide good profiles for each paper stock you run. This will allow customers to adjust images on their (calibrated!) monitors to their satisfaction. If they use a program such as Photoshop, Picture Window, Corel Draw, or QImage that includes soft proofing tools, they can get a remarkably good indication of how the final print will appear. Instead of sending you a generic sRGB image and hoping for the best, they can tune the image to extract the maximum quality your printer is capable of generating.

This of course requires setting up an alternate file path for these images. Also, using a generic Agfa profile will get you in the ballpark, but will not have the same accuracy you can get by profiling your individual printer. This will let your customers decide for themselves what level of saturation they desire -- over the top E100-VS, muted Portra 160NC, middle of the road Provia, etc. Each photographer who uses your service likely has different preferences, which may vary image-to-image. The d-TFS stuff, for all its power, tends to make all images look the same. There is a big difference between salvaging a respectable print from an underexposed, unbalanced mess and doing justice to a great image.

--
Ethan Hansen
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/
 
Hi Ethan - naturally you are correct, and this is one of the BIG lessons I have learned from this forum over the past few months. Our software developers are beavering away on separate workflow for pros and I hope to have something ready within 8 weeks.

Profiling our individual printer is a little tricky as we have three d-labs. Any ideas on this front? Anthony
Ethan Hansen said:
Anthony,

It sounds as though you need two processing flows depending on your
customer requirements. One is a full-auto, fix the mis-exposed,
blown-backgroud, color cast prints that I am sure you get all to
many of. The Agfa d-TFS wizardry does an excellent job with these.
The place the automatic correction algorithms fall on their face,
as do those by Fuji and Noritsu, is when they are presented with an
already correct image. This is particularly true if a photographer
used creative lighting or Photoshop techniques to acheive a desired
effect.

The way to nail your customer's expectations is to provide good
profiles for each paper stock you run. This will allow customers
to adjust images on their (calibrated!) monitors to their
satisfaction. If they use a program such as Photoshop, Picture
Window, Corel Draw, or QImage that includes soft proofing tools,
they can get a remarkably good indication of how the final print
will appear. Instead of sending you a generic sRGB image and
hoping for the best, they can tune the image to extract the maximum
quality your printer is capable of generating.

This of course requires setting up an alternate file path for these
images. Also, using a generic Agfa profile will get you in the
ballpark, but will not have the same accuracy you can get by
profiling your individual printer. This will let your customers
decide for themselves what level of saturation they desire -- over
the top E100-VS, muted Portra 160NC, middle of the road Provia,
etc. Each photographer who uses your service likely has different
preferences, which may vary image-to-image. The d-TFS stuff, for
all its power, tends to make all images look the same. There is a
big difference between salvaging a respectable print from an
underexposed, unbalanced mess and doing justice to a great image.

--
Ethan Hansen
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/
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To all who what to order prints online well here's my scoop............I went to : http://www.ezprints.com/ezdirect/products.asp?Type=Print

uploaded my Jepg file and less the a week later WOW my picture came back to me and I was amazed how fast they where and more important what a great job EZprints did! I had them do a 16X20 print from my Nikon CP5700 my jepg file was under 3MB it was a wedding picture and I was blown away. So I will use EZprints again they do wonderful work! And you too will see how good they are have fun all..............Lamont :> )
 
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Lamont E. Earles said:
To all who what to order prints online well here's my
scoop............I went to
: http://www.ezprints.com/ezdirect/products.asp?Type=Print

uploaded my Jepg file and less the a week later WOW my picture came
back to me and I was amazed how fast they where and more important
what a great job EZprints did! I had them do a 16X20 print from my
Nikon CP5700 my jepg file was under 3MB it was a wedding picture
and I was blown away. So I will use EZprints again they do
wonderful work! And you too will see how good they are have fun
all..............Lamont :> )
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