Photo Printing?

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ELL

Über Member
I am after a little advice from anyone who may have done this or something like this before.

Its my wife’s 30th birthday in April and I am having a little party for her. As is the custom for this kind of event I am speaking with her Nan to get lots of photos from when she was young and will be making a collage or four with them.

Now my question is what’s the best way to copy the photos? Some I will do 6x4 some I will make larger.

My printer at home isn’t best for photo printing so wont be using that as I want to keep the photos after. The 2 options I can think of are going to Jessops (as I have a £10 voucher) and using their scanners to copy and print them or copy them on my scanner at home and get them done online.

I was wondering if the scanners in Jessops are a lot better than you get on the home 4in1 printer scanners for home use? I see a lot of the on-line companies offer free prints when you sign up so I may take advantage of them.


Thanks for your help
 

ohnovino

Large Member
Location
Liverpool
I'd scan a couple at home, stick them on a flash drive and take them to somewhere with one of those photo machines (I think most supermarkets have them now). You'll be able to print them off for a few pence and that'll give you an idea of the quality of (a) their printing and (b) your scanner, without wasting too much time/money.
 

akb

Veteran
I would avoid jessops printing; they are both expensive and the quality is poor!

Are you intending to copy 6x4 size photos and then blow them up to larger sizes? Although possible, you will lose a lot of quality as you are in effect stretching the pixels to achieve a larger size. Do you have the digital photos available?

My advice would be to use somewhere like Jessops for copying (assuming that you dont have digital files / film) and then go online for prints. I do all of my printing (I am a semi-professional photographer) with DS Colours labs. www.dscolourlabs.co.uk and only have praise for them. For the cheap price, the quality is perfect and they usually turn prints 'round in a day or two.

HTH.

Anil.
 

akb

Veteran
As an additional note; I have tried and tested supermarket printing service for personal use; both expensive (about 15-20p p/p) and poor quality. DSC do 6x4 at 12p p/p.
 

Doseone

Guru
Location
Brecon
I have done similar things for relatives. Normally scan the photos then upload to photobox or mypublisher. Have been very pleased with the results.
 
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ELL

ELL

Über Member
Thanks for your help. Photobox was one of the websites I was looking at using so think i will use them for it.

I will be keeping most of the pictures the same size as they are already apart from a an A4 that I may get done bigger cut the face out and use it like the things you get at the seaside so people can use it to be her aged 3.
 
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