Alternatives to Loxley

ringo747 · 7 Jul 2012 at 17:04

My brother recommended these guys for getting around 300 6x4 prints but on downloading their software it appears that each 6x4 costs £0.61. Just a little too pricey for me.

Any recommendations for best quality at best prices?

An Exception · 7 Jul 2012 at 17:09

Photobox?

Raymond Lin · 7 Jul 2012 at 17:10

DS colour labs

Rojin · 7 Jul 2012 at 17:17

Raymond Lin said:
DS colour labs

+1

Guitarman0 · 7 Jul 2012 at 18:34

If you have a mac apple's printing service costs just over 10p per print IIRC.

ringo747 · 7 Jul 2012 at 20:47

Great - will give DSCL a try. I have a load of photos from our official wedding tog and when I upload them without resizing it shows 500dpi approx. Is this an issue or do I really have to crop/resize everything and set dpi to 300?

Raymond Lin · 7 Jul 2012 at 20:56

ringo747 said:
Great - will give DSCL a try. I have a load of photos from our official wedding tog and when I upload them without resizing it shows 500dpi approx. Is this an issue or do I really have to crop/resize everything and set dpi to 300?

You can upload them as they are but 300 photos at 500dpi will take a very long time!

ringo747 · 7 Jul 2012 at 20:59

Just tried it and estimating 21 hours even with BT Infinity! Is there an easy way to set the DPI for the whole batch?

Amp34 · 7 Jul 2012 at 22:53

You can do a batch job with Photoshop, if you have that, and reduce the images to 1800x1200.

ringo747 · 7 Jul 2012 at 22:57

Will give that a go. I take it it won't have an adverse affect on the print if I don't bother resizing it and just go with the 500dpi?

Raymond Lin · 7 Jul 2012 at 23:01

ringo747 said:
Will give that a go. I take it it won't have an adverse affect on the print if I don't bother resizing it and just go with the 500dpi?

I personally think anything over 300dpi is unnecessary. It won't make it worse leaving it, it just mean it take you a long time to upload.

ringo747 · 7 Jul 2012 at 23:23

Ok thanks for the advice. Will just upload them as they are.

Amp34 · 8 Jul 2012 at 00:47

ringo747 said:
Will give that a go. I take it it won't have an adverse affect on the print if I don't bother resizing it and just go with the 500dpi?

All they will do at the other end is resample to 1800x1200 as well if their kit prints at 300dpi.