fotki prints?

[hornetzoo]

Has anyone tried ordering prints from them? How was the quality?

[markubig]

Has anyone tried ordering prints from them? How was the quality?

I have . . . they're not that great IMO. For some reason, skin tones come out with a reddish tint to them and colors, in general, were a little dull. The only positive I saw from them is that they were the least expensive, but in this case, it was "You get what you pay for." This was a year or so ago, so maybe they improved if you want to try them out.

Personally, I use www.kodakgallery.com (http://www.kodakgallery.com) (formerly ofoto.com). They use Kodak processing and printing and the pictures come out great with excellent color and quality.

I've also heard good things about www.snapfish.com (http://www.snapfish.com)

Good luck!

[hornetzoo]

thanks, and can anyone compare online photo printing vs. actually going to a shop?

[carol baker]

I have been using Fotki for 8 years now, and I really like them. Fotki just introduced new lower prices on all formats, 4" by 6" is now 9 cents.


Photo Works and Shutterfly - 19¢ per print
Yahoo! Photos and Kodak Gallery - 15¢ per print
Snapfish and Sony Imagestation - 12¢ per printAs far as in-store printing, I know Walmart charges 19 cents a print while-you-wait and 15 cents on the orders you have to come pick up. I think I am not mistaken.

[Radtech1]

I have been using Fotki for 8 years now, and I really like them. Fotki just introduced new lower prices on all formats, 4" by 6" is now 9 cents.

Carol,

Is it ink-jet or chemical printing?

Rad

[carol baker]

This is what Fotki.com state:

We print on Fujicolor Crystal Archive professional photographic paper, processed through Fuji Hunt Chemicals. The archival quality of this process is 50+ years before fading may occur. This is the same process used at the best pro-labs.

So I assume this is chemical.
:D

[jfrancho]

I've had good luck with Mpix, WHCC, Shutterfly, and EZPrint. The only time I got really bad prints was when I sent the images with the wrong profile - my mistake.

[markubig]

I've had good luck with Mpix, WHCC, Shutterfly, and EZPrint. The only time I got really bad prints was when I sent the images with the wrong profile - my mistake. what colorspace are you supposed to send in to get good colored prints?

[jfrancho]

what colorspace are you supposed to send in to get good colored prints?Well, it depends on the printer. I sent images tageed with aRGB profiles to EZPrint, and they accept sRGB. I forgot to convert to sRGB for some reason. Saturated blues and greens were way off, skin tones were a little flat; basically they were unusable. Each of the services should tell what to use, if they don't, I guess I'd assume sRGB, though I probably wouldn't use them if they didn't know.