Enough is enough ...

Hi Everyone .. I hope you're all enjoying the start if your Holiday Season.

If may, I'm torn between WHCC and MPix for lab purposes. Does anyone have a preference between these two, and if so indicate why?

I's also welcome other lab suggestions but ONLY if you have personal experience with them and can recommend them for the pro-photographer and while label shipping to clients.

Thanks much.

Cheers!
-Dave

Richmond Pro - I do all my drop ships through them and all the T&I stuff...considering going with them for everything as my other printer has too high of novelty product cost, too high of shipping (though they do a spectacular job of packaging), and some prints are higher as well. Quality is perfect but gotta think bottom line and Richmond helps with that. Used mpix before and liked them, just wanted more options and different products.

I have been using www.whcc.com for several years. Quality is excellent and consistent as is the service. I have never used MPIX. Dennis

Thanks for the valued feedback and time guys. --D.O

Try these guys for large prints:
www.gallerystreet.com
and generally everything else now that I have a look at it they really improved their inventory...whoa I think I may have to switch printing houses again..damn we need more places to print in canada.

I used Miller's in the 90s when I was film based, superb lab, great service. Once I switched to complete digital in 2000, I moved to WHCC and haven't looked back. Of course I can run by and pickup stuff and know Mike and his staff quite well. They do a great deal for our local PPA affiliate too, which I'm on the board of, so I may be a little biased. Great lab both, but for digital WHCC wins in my book.

Every professional needs a back-up lab. Use them both.

I use several labs among them WHCC and mpix.

When I need to mix papers I use Mpix although every order I've placed with them lately something has been off with color or cutting and has had to be reprinted.

WHCC has been good. I like them though I find them to print a little dark.

I like they are one business day from me.(WHCC). And I love the metallic gallery wraps. Mckenna pro has 16x20 gallery wraps for 51.00 buck.

vpnd wrote in post #9114331
I like they are one business day from me.(WHCC). And I love the metallic gallery wraps. Mckenna pro has 16x20 gallery wraps for 51.00 buck.

I do not see your pricing, did I miss something on their website? 16x20 $68.00 1.5"?

I have always used www.nationsphotolab.co​m. I have never had any problems with them...

kona77 wrote in post #9114371
I do not see your pricing, did I miss something on their website? 16x20 $68.00 1.5"?

I have been getting emails from them, and I ordered one to try them out. the image is darker than my other printers I go with, but the wood frame quality and the wrapping was really good.

I go with mpix for 4 x 6's and whcc for enlargements. I've been happy with both. However, I did try a 5 x 7 at a local Hyvee (grocery store), and the quality sucked.

Thinking about trying out www.calypsoinc.com lately here, i hear really good reviews for their large print and I have a client that needs a 30x70" canvas for an office; good for massive sizes like that. Smaller prints aren't bad either, especially for lambda. Actually the only thing that holds me back is the worry about duties and fees for international ordering.

Try researching into commercial printers. Often a lot of them deal in bulk, such as www.5000cards.com I had a link to another one geared more for photographers but I lost it..big commercial printers are great if you're creating postcards, specialty products like posters or brochures, or art cards.

There was one specifically that could do hundreds of 4x6s for a really cheap figure..like 20$ or something for a box. Anyway the point is it's worth a look if you can cut costs and find a way to reduce the middle man's costs you're halfway there.