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I was looking at buying a printer for my photos but after reading online it seems for the amount I will be printing it would be cheaper to have them done online, obviously I want it to be as cheap as possible but also want quality (not asking much!!) can anyone recommend me a good online printing service?.

Many thanks.
 
I'd say that printers generally will be more than adequate for your purpose. Look at Photobox, for example. However printing (like scanning!) can be something of a black art and success will be a lot dependent on your image preparation skills. This gets discussed often on here with people complaining that "my prints have come back too dark" being the most common failing. Print sizing and pixels seems to be another confusion (dunno why). So check out the ins and outs of all that before you get in too deep, and send a trial order to prove the process first - a few smallish prints?
 
I use ds colour labs for all my photo printing, although have just bought a canon pixm sprinter, that I'm yet to buy some photo paper. I used the lab for printing for the selection of papers and medium I could choose, and for the quality.
 
villain1973uk said:
I was looking at buying a printer for my photos but after reading online it seems for the amount I will be printing it would be cheaper to have them done online, obviously I want it to be as cheap as possible but also want quality (not asking much!!) can anyone recommend me a good online printing service?.

Many thanks.
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You might not be printing many today, or this month, but a printer can last a long time, I have a Canon Pro 9000 Mark 2 and I must have bought it 3 or 4 years ago. I didn't use it much at first but i'm using it a lot now. Yeah, I can mess up prints now and again, but at least it's one or two, and not a whole album worth or full run, which can happen from a printers. It also means you can print a single print, or 5 or 100 and not have to worry about delivery times or postage costs.

If you're looking to print A3 or smaller, and no canvases, i'd suggest getting your own printer.

I use printing sites for business cards because of all the cutting that'd be involved but I print photos/art myself to size.
 
DS Colour Labs or DSCL are the cheapest I have found and the quality is excellent too.
 
I've been using DSCL for a few years now quality is excellent
it's not worth buying a printer and doing my own for the price they do it for
 
ASDA printing
excellent resuls and very cheap compared to most out there
 
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