On-line printing
Hi all,
I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this question but I couldn't find anywhere more appropriate so apologies if I'm in the wrong place!
I usually use photobox for printing my images, up-load files and they send you the photograph (1-2 days). I've always preferred to do this rather than printing at home, I've bought good HP photo printers in the past but never really satisfied with the quality, ok for a bit then it deteriorates as the inks run out, ink clogs up the heads etc etc.. it's also very cheap and quick on-line, I never have to buy expensive cartridges any more.
I've also done a few weddings in the past and have used an Italian album manufacturer to print my work, modern digital album where one image goes across both pages - you know the kind.
Now the quality of these album prints are far better than the ones from photobox, I don't know much about the printing process but where can I get better images printed than Photobox without breaking the bank, I would obviously expect to pay more but what are the different processes?
I have noticed the difference directly because during a recent album I was editing I had a jacket that had a weave I wasn't sure would print very well so I up-loaded it and got a print from photobox, the jacket printed ok. So I sent the images off for the album, when the album arrived the print quality from the same image was far superior, depth of colour, far richer, sharper etc etc..
I want to adopt this quality for my general printing, but from where???
Any advice or similar experiences appreciated.
Martin.
I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this question but I couldn't find anywhere more appropriate so apologies if I'm in the wrong place!
I usually use photobox for printing my images, up-load files and they send you the photograph (1-2 days). I've always preferred to do this rather than printing at home, I've bought good HP photo printers in the past but never really satisfied with the quality, ok for a bit then it deteriorates as the inks run out, ink clogs up the heads etc etc.. it's also very cheap and quick on-line, I never have to buy expensive cartridges any more.
I've also done a few weddings in the past and have used an Italian album manufacturer to print my work, modern digital album where one image goes across both pages - you know the kind.
Now the quality of these album prints are far better than the ones from photobox, I don't know much about the printing process but where can I get better images printed than Photobox without breaking the bank, I would obviously expect to pay more but what are the different processes?
I have noticed the difference directly because during a recent album I was editing I had a jacket that had a weave I wasn't sure would print very well so I up-loaded it and got a print from photobox, the jacket printed ok. So I sent the images off for the album, when the album arrived the print quality from the same image was far superior, depth of colour, far richer, sharper etc etc..
I want to adopt this quality for my general printing, but from where???
Any advice or similar experiences appreciated.
Martin.
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