Printing Service

martinturner

martinturner

martinturner

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I am looking to offer a printing service on my website. Who would you use for getting prints done. Personally, I have always used Photobox as generally pleased. Although wondering if I should be offering a more professional finish?

I am only shooting with a D40, so a 6mp sensor means I cannot blow up my shots to any amazing size. I am replacing camera and will offer new prints at largers sizes. But for now, not much bigger than an A4.

Also, printing overhead will eat into profit so need that to be a consideration too.

Thoughts please :)
 
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I'm not really too hot on the exact figures but a good sharp image will upscale to quite large really. Depends how much quality you are hunting for. I have printed 8mp to 30x20" and been mighty impressed with the overal quality.
Yeah the sample packs are great. You get about 6 A4 print outs on some really nice paper/ink.
The chrome (I think) was amazing.
 
I've had 20x30 prints done from my D50 (6mp) and I've been quite impressed by the quality. I upscaled them in Photoshop so that Photobox were printing from a 100% image but it's still pretty damn good.

Panzer
 
Cost me a fiver for the sample pack though ... eek! I am impressed by their range; something I have not seen as an option before. Will be interested to see the differences. I think I may get a print done at Photobox, somewhere else recommend (not pro though) and a couple from them to get a definitive idea of what I prefer. Most of my stuff is landscapes, so i would presume certain finishes are very much dependent on content.

Thanks again!
 
Panzerbjorn said:
I've had 20x30 prints done from my D50 (6mp) and I've been quite impressed by the quality. I upscaled them in Photoshop so that Photobox were printing from a 100% image but it's still pretty damn good.

Panzer
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I was going to get one of my shots put on canvas for home, but Photobox suggested there would be 'quality loss'. I think I was choosing a canvas nearer the A3 mark, Photobox warned of some image quality loss.

Surely a resize will impact the quality though? Although given you have had something printed then perhaps not. I am presuming you were refering to 20inches by 30 inches (rather than cm's)?

I have heard of genuine fractals for resizing; not really looked into it though.

Is there some sort of calculator? Perhaps I should just get a few prints done at large sizes and make a decision from there.
 
+1 for The Print Space, have used them for a few years now, they have an awesome range of papers and they are certainly the friendliest guys I've experienced! I printed some 20"x20" for my final major with them, and was incredibly impressed. They let me use their calibrated mac's for free (15 mins) to convert the profiles, and it only took 25 minutes before all 4 prints we're ready.

They are probably pricey compared to others, but I've yet to have a bad print from them (online orders have come out equally well to going to them directly). If you're selling photo's these would be my only choice! Check out their metalic papers (might be in the sample pack?) works really nicely with black and white work.

If you can, go in and see them (hard to miss the building!) they usually display series of work, and can help to give you an idea of what they are capable of.
 
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