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Sebastian

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Hello all,

I am slowly climbing the ladder of print suppliers.. I have enough of disappointments with colour rendition.

I already left behind my first labs like Bonusprint, photobox (terribly compressed colour range), jessops etc...

Now I am thinking about going with Loxley Colour and One Vision Imaging for prints and with Sim2000 and Graphistudio for photo books.

Have you used any of these before? What is your opinion about them?
Can you please give me some word of advice?
If you think there are better labs, can you please point me to the rioght direction?

Thank you for your help


Seb
 
Hi Sebastian,

I use Loxley Colour for their albums - very good quality IMO...

I also use One Vision - for prints.... not a lot of difference in quality between prints from Loxley and One Vision - only went with One Vision as they gave me a discount on my first order plus they are ever so slightly cheaper on their prints (pennies - but they all count!!)

Took me a while to decide myself but I'm more than happy with them both....

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I use DS Colour labs, Loxley and Graphi for my stuff and they are all very good.

be careful and read the image requirements because you will find them all different. DSCL, make sure you size the prints according to their instructions or you will get some very odd crops! Their metallic prints are fab!

Loxley are brilliant for customer service and have called me to check on an individual frame in an album before printing it.

Graphi do make lovely albums and I quite like their album design software. They do take an absolute age to deliver (up to 8 weeks) and the FTP upload to italy can be a bit flakey. If you go for Graphi's full resolution images, each one can be 24mb so that's one heck of an upload. My last one said it would take 6 hours! Much easier to save it on a DVD and post it. :)
 
had a offer with photobox

got the 60 prints free

and the packaging was not great, two photos damage, but not bother due to only being for college portfolio and the colour was not fantasic so wont be using those two pics

service was very quick, packaging could have been better, prints where less better quality than tesco..
 
I use DSCL for the important shots, print some of my own if I need a print done instantly, and I'm about to try Aldi (:eek:) for some 6x4's and see what they're like. Aldi also do canvasses and Photobooks, but not sure on quality.
 
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