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Photographers: Best place to get a picture printed?

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imported_Pablo

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I'd like to get this picture printed for my dad at about a 9 x 12 size. The picture will be professionally framed and hung in his office.

Can anybody recommend some good PROFESSIONAL places online that I could send the picture in to (digitally) and get back a museum-quality print (that won't fade, wrinkle, etc.)

Thanks!

Paul
 
Nice picture! I think you cut off the water"fall" portion a bit prematurely though. I've tried WHCC, great place, but if you want to print BIG for the money, Costco hands down. You can pay off your Costco membership just by using their photo lab's prices. Or even bigger is an 18x12 at Costco online (Snapfish) for only $3.

Costcos on the West Coast use Noritsu machines while ones in the east still use Fuji Frontiers. Still good machines though. Make sure to download their store-specific printer profiles.
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Frontier/using_printer_profiles.htm
 
Originally posted by: iamtrout
Nice picture! I think you cut off the water"fall" portion a bit prematurely though. I've tried WHCC, great place, but if you want to print BIG for the money, Costco hands down. You can pay off your Costco membership just by using their photo lab's prices. Or even bigger is an 18x12 at Costco online (Snapfish) for only $3.

Costcos on the West Coast use Noritsu machines while ones in the east still use Fuji Frontiers. Still good machines though. Make sure to download their store-specific printer profiles.
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Frontier/using_printer_profiles.htm
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Agreed about a bad crop... unfortunately this was the only picture that turned out decent on that trip... the rest were not sharp enough. I'm a noob so my % of good shots is pretty low. That's why I'm getting this framed at a smaller size. There are about 3 falls on the property that I want to get a good picture of and print out at larger sizes... but only when I get a good picture of them.
 
I would suggest yet another place


ez prints

I like them for two reasons.

First, monitor calibration. I don't have the hardware means to do it, and if you don't have one of the gizmos, you don't have a calibrated monitor either. People complain that their printer sucks, and it's often true. More often a good printer is "bad" because the monitor used to judge the image does not show the image correctly. Ez gets around this by offering two free photos it mails to you. One is color and one BW. I set up my laptop to match as best I could, and while it still isn't as good as using a hardware calibrator, it works very well for me.

I think Anubis would agree that calibration is very important if you are going for a quality image.

Second, I shoot in RAW and convert and manipulate the image as needed in TIFF. I routinely send 40MB image files in TIFF format and they accept that.

I have them printed on the best papers today, sometimes ati 16x24, and the quality is stunning.
 
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