Photo printing

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I want to tell you about my recent experience with an online photograph printing company called Photobox.com

high street printing

Initially I had my images printed by a local print firm. It was easy. Walk into town load my images onto their system, use their color profile in my monitor set up return a day later and collect the required photographs. There was somebody there to talk to if there were problems, it could not have been much more easy. There was one thing hanging over me and that was the price I was paying. They high street company were not prepared to change price unless I made bulk orders all at one time and this I found annoying and very inflexible. Okay, I was not getting 100 images printed at once, but over a week I was having more than that number printed.

It wasn’t until a week ago, when I went to the local shop wanting a panoramic image producing. “that will take 3 days for a 20″ x 8″ and will cost £18″ they told me. I decided to have a look online.

Online photograph printing

On getting home I started to have a look at other most cost effective options. I found a few companies but decided to go with Photobox this time. Their prices were very keen, even with P&P on top. The range they offered was fantastic, a whole world of sizes, formats and design ideas. With all this in mind I decided to try them out.

I needed to create an account, which was easy enough. Then use their up-loader. I need to install jave run time, which did not work very well in Firefox browser. Changing my browser to IE7 made all the difference and I was ready to upload my first image in no time. I decided on the size and a Matt finish then went to the cart and paid. It was about 5 in the evening at this time.

Next day I had an email telling that my photograph had been printed. The following day at first post it arrived through the letter box. It was well protected and wrapped. The paper quality was high and the colors were fantastic across the range.

For the price of £6.49 for one 20″ x 8″ image to be sent in good time is in my opinion, fantastic. I would strongly recommend using Photobox for your photographic printing.

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