Best online place to print high quality pics? For framing.

[Zeze]

It's for IRL framing so I'm looking for best quality. What do people use nowadays?

Link 'em up please!

 

[edro]

Nations Photo Lab

 

[Herr Kutz]

Nations Photo Lab

Are these guys good for doing very large prints? I want to make some prints from some of my vacations.

Edit: Looks like they do. Thanks for the tip.

 

[Zeze]

Nations Photo Lab

Thanks. But since I'm completely lacking context, are these guys popular?

What is the standard shop / most popular one that everyone uses? (semi-pros, etc)

Is shutterfly complete garbage or decent?

 

[BurnItDwn]

I just print with walgreens, but they are not what you are looking for.
Maybe Kinkos or whatever the local print shop happens to be?

 

[Zee]

those wedding boutique places usually has inhouse studios as well that you can get a price on. i would think most places do a decent job. as long as you have the resolution to support the size.

 

[edro]

I found Nation's Photo Lab on some professional sites where they reviewed dozens of online print places.
I have gotten 5 or so orders from there and had no issues.
I just received a few 20x25" prints and they look perfect. They were like $4 ea when on sale.
They have sales just like everyone else, so watch for those.
I recommend their lustre finish. The metallic was interesting, but not something I would ever use.
I ordered a few test prints in all paper types initially to test them.

Shutterfly, Walgreens, CVS, Snapfish, etc are all trash compared to Nations, IMO.

 

[FeuerFrei]

 

[Exterous]

We use ProDPI and have been pretty happy with the prints. We ordered prints from a few places on this list and liked ProDPI the best
http://improvephotography.com/7756/test-results-best-online-print-lab/

https://www.prodpi.com/

Their support people were awesome regarding the single issue we've had with an order although ordering could be a bit more straightforward IMO. That said they did get bought by WHCC and the prices have been slowly creeping up although the quality seems the same

 

[MrSquished]

Adorama

 

[dmoney1980]

Mpix worked great for me so far. Decent prices and really good quality photos. Tons of options too

 

[purbeast0]

If you want to go a DYI route and are looking for something pretty big, I printed out some 2'x3' pictures of hi-res movie posters on fabric to create accoustical panels with. I've since created multiple frames to hang around the house with pictures of our family on them and just built a small wooden frame to staple the fabric to. I have a 2'x3' picture printed from our honey moon hanging on the wall and it looks great. I ordered the fabric from spoonflower.com

I'm absolutely horrible at wood working for the most part and building a frame to staple these to is a piece of cake. I just bought some tiny 1x2 pieces of wood from home depot and just cut them into 4 pieces then glued them together.

EDIT:

Here's the link in AV forum with info about building them and how they turned out.

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/check-out-the-acoustical-panels-i-made.2366746/

 

[BarkingGhostar]

White House Custom Color. https://www.whcc.com/