How much would is cost to print 6320 photos?

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This is an archive of my digital photos since 2004, none of which I have ever printed :o

I have decided to spend big bucks getting all of these printed to standard photo size and cataloguing them in photo albums.

I know it will be a triple figure.. but should I get them printed online or should I go to a high street printer and strike a deal?

Anything else I should consider?

Many thanks.
 
Make sure that the place doing the printing prints out in the same aspect ratio as your photos.
 
Well photobox would do them for £317.50. I doubt you will get much cheaper then that.

I bet you could drop a thousand or so by going through and getting rid of the duds. Thats whay i did recently. I decided to print all my digital albums in case of a mass hard drive/dvd failure. 30000 condensed to 1000 quite easily. I just created a print folder, copied all the pictures to it, then deleted all that were totally rubbish. Takes a while but saves a hell of a lot of money. The real fun comes when you get posted the photos in no descernable order and you have to organize them!
 
Thanks yak.h'cir :) I reckon I might use Photobox. Yes, I could certainly cut down that number but I've already gone through the archive a deleted the crap photos. I think a harsher round two is in order! :p
 
Thats gonna be quite a hefty upload. I dont think I would know where to begin sorting out over 6000 pictures. Maybe do them in batches of a few hundred at a time?

I hope you have a Huge carpet on which to lay them out! Generally the pictures I ditch are the ones without people in.

It does worry me slightly that everything being stored on digital - will I be able to read my CDs/DVDs in 20 years time? Remember when files were stored on 5.25" disks? Id have a helluva time reading them now.
 
skankmaster said:
It does worry me slightly that everything being stored on digital - will I be able to read my CDs/DVDs in 20 years time? Remember when files were stored on 5.25" disks? Id have a helluva time reading them now.
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Look at it this way - my Grandad has a whole lot of home movie footage from the early 1930's on 9.5mm film with a single centre sproket.

We had no problem finding someone to transfer it to DVD.

DVD/CDs will be around easily for the next 10 years. Worst case is that when the first 'dvd replacement' comes out that is not backwardly compatible. Just spend some time using your existing optical drive to create new archives.

I tend to keep my photos in the following places:

1) Mirorred 250GB hard disks
2) External 300GB hard disk
3) DVD-Rs in my office at work.

So it would require two different buildings to burn down simultaneously to destroy them. So I'm happy....

External HDDs for the win !
 
I would try the highstreet tbh. You could probably get a goo deal becuase your printing sooo many. I also dont think it will be £1.50 P&P from photobox for 6000+ prints. :rolleyes:
 
If you are serious, just select about 30% of each different session which you would really like to keep and just upload those. I have loads of pics on here which are pretty rubbish but I just keep them anyway.
 
Colin_da_Killer said:
I would try the highstreet tbh. You could probably get a goo deal becuase your printing sooo many. I also dont think it will be £1.50 P&P from photobox for 6000+ prints. :rolleyes:
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I had a single batch of about 1000 done a few weeks ago and p&p was still only £1.50.

I very much doubt you'll get a deal better the 5p per picture of photobox!
 
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