Printing Your Momshots
How do you print out your fabulous momshots? There are so many options out there; your personal printer, Costco, Walmart, Walgreens, Kodak kiosk, Snapfish, Mpix… the list goes on and on.
I don’t have a lot of experience printing photos. I have done it only a handful of times in the past 10 years. That is a trend I plan on breaking! Immediately!
In my recent post about decorating with photos, I decided to build a little mural of beach photos from our recent trip. Well this evening I spent some time and edited the ones I want to use in Photoshop and cropped them all to the size I want. I’m going with the 5″x7″ prints. I think those will be a good size. Big but not too big.
Now to the printing… I don’t think that my printer will give me the quality that I want so I am going to use a service. Of all my options, I decided to upload the files to Snapfish. I have used them once in the very long distant past. I was pretty happy with my results. I don’t have any complaints. So because of familiarity and the fact that I don’t have to leave my home, I decided to use them again.
I’ll for sure let you know what I think of the results once I receive them.
While I was weighing my options, I found an interesting photo printing comparison website. Check it out and let me know your thoughts. It doesn’t include everywhere but it does include many places. In fact, quite a few that I hadn’t heard of before.
July 19th, 2008 at 5:24 am
For 4×6 prints, which I am usually printing for my mother to put in her photo album, I use Walmart because she lives out of state and I can email the photos to her local Walmart. If it is something that is going to go on my wall, I use a good quality photo lab. I think you and I live in the same general area. If you want to email me, I’ll recommend a photolab that I have completely fallen in love with. I love their canvas prints mounted gallery style on a wood frame.
July 19th, 2008 at 5:31 am
Love the photo! Wish I was at the beach! If you are able to wait on your printing, I know Snapfish runs sales occasionally - 1 cent a photo.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Love that picture! I need to go to the beach soon!
I also wanted to let you know if you want some really awesome prints, especially gallery wrap canvases, WHCC rocks! They offer textured prints too which I just love. Although I am fond of MPIX metallic paper. I would stay stay clear of Wal-mart. They never calibrate their machines RGB. You end up with dark over saturated photos. Both Macey’s and Wal-greens hire actual people who know how to calibrate the machines. So you end up with WAY better prints there. I won’t print anywhere other then WHCC, they are more pricey. But you get what you pay for.