The best places to print your photos {I tried them!}

The best places to print your photos {I tried them!}

The other week I went through all my photos on my computer, of which there are thousands and thousands, and printed them out. Up until that date I hadn't printed photos since Lacey was about 8 months, which makes me a really, really, really bad mum {kidding!}. I just went with Snapfish, considering I just wanted to become it washed, and off my to-practise list. Loading up the photos took 24 hours… and information technology was when I had finished uploading all the photos, and gained three grey hairs in the process, that I realised that I had uploaded to the U.Southward. site. Argh. Stamp was insane, simply I couldn't get back… I paid it, and now I accept photos. It will just take me 7 more years to put them into albums, I'm sure!

In that 24 hours it took to upload the photos, I did wonder… Where are the best places to print your photos? Which online site was cheapest? Which printed the best quality photos? I shall wonder no more! I picked six photos, and sent them off to nine online printing places, and am now writing this post so I can compare quality and costs.

The half dozen photos I picked are unedited. I have four of my own personal photos, one taken with my telephone, the others from my Olympus OM-D E-M10. The remaining two are from a photo stock site I utilise, considering I wanted to accept myself out of the equation {in case the settings I utilise on my camera impact photo press quality, considering I like a lot of light!}.

I paid for the printing myself, the companies accept no idea I'1000 doing this experiment. Here's the results!

The best places to print your photos {I tried them!} Harvey Norman : // Cost per print = $0.fifteen // Postage = $2.95
The procedure for using the Harvey Norman site was really like shooting fish in a barrel, and the pricing was comparable to near of the Australian sites. I take to say, I don't love the print quality, in some photos they were too dark compared to the original photo {the photograph of myself and Lulu is just incorrect} and the colours were a little bit 'off', particularly in the ice foam photo.

The best places to print your photos {I tried them!} LALALAB. // Price for vi prints = $6.95 including postage stamp from Germany
Oh homo, I dear this company. The colours are pretty much spot on, and the printing quality is insane. Formerly known as Polagram, LALALAB. is run through an App which is available for Android and iPhone. Despite coming from Federal republic of germany, postage stamp was quick and annihilation that arrives in a sugariness, brilliant pink envelope is a-ok with me!

The best places to print your photos {I tried them!} Persnickety Prints // Cost per print = $0.29 // Postage = $12.50
My prints from Persnickety were the last to arrive out of all the prints, simply they did travel all the way from Utah, United states of america so they tin can exist forgiven. The printing is cute, and they seem to get the colours simply perfect, which I love. They're definitely frame-worthy!

The best places to print your photos {I tried them!} Domayne // Cost per print = $0.15 // Postage stamp = $ii.95
Oh, I want to tell you that I dearest these… but I don't. They might be fine for putting in an album for the kids to look at, but the colours are just not right and the contrast is a niggling on the dark side. I don't beloved them.

The best places to print your photos {I tried them!} Officeworks // Cost per print // Postage – $two.95
Of all the printing I had washed, Officeworks came in at the cheapest. It's just 5c cheaper per print, only if you were doing it in majority {which I presume we all would near of the time} it would definitely make a difference to your end price. The quality is much better than the other cheaper printers, but the photograph of Lulu and I is notwithstanding darker than I'd like it to exist. Overall though, Officeworks is pretty good.

The best places to print your photos {I tried them!} Snapfish // Cost per print = $0.15 // Postage = $two.95
Every bit you may have noticed, in that location are a bunch of printers that run at around the same price, and I noticed they appear to use similar processing platforms too. Snapfish is a favourite among loads of my readers and I tin understand why. On well-nigh of my photos the colours were good, but again it'south the photo of Lulu and I that but doesn't work. The colours are all wrong {I'd say it was my photo, just LALALAB. and Persnickety printed them perfectly!}, and the contrast is off. Overall it withal gets a thumbs up for photos that are going into an anthology.

The best places to print your photos {I tried them!} Big W // Toll per print = $0.15 // Postage stamp = $ii.95
If I was beingness fussy, and I am, I'd give Large W a thumbs down. Well, for two of my prints. It seems that the photo of Lulu and I is problematic, but Big W has done the worst job with information technology and so far – it's night and my peel is a weird green colour. It's about not worth keeping, and may find itself in the bin. If you ringlet through all the photos, you'll discover that water ice cream photograph is super brilliant and non true to information technology's original colours. Information technology'south more vivid aqua and less true blueish. The photo of Lacey jumping is a little odd in colour too. Sorry Large W. I will give them a thumbs up for offer matte or gloss, and the choice to add a border too.

The best places to print your photos {I tried them!} RGB Digital // Cost per print = $0.30 // Postage = $13
This is a bit more on the fancy side, and i you'd use if you definitely planned on putting your photos on display. It's not really that much more than expensive though {30c per print is when you lot choose the cheapest lustre press option}. I love the printing quality and am super happy with the colours. The RGB Digital site is a tad more than complicated to use than the others, but nothing I couldn't go through. Thumbs upwards from me!

The best places to print your photos {I tried them!} NUSHOTS // Cost per print = $0.xix // Postage = $v
This is only a few more than cents expensive than most of the printers I tested {Big W, Snapfish, Harvey Norman, Domayne, Officeworks} but the quality is definitely more improved. The paper itself is thicker, and more beautiful, and the printing is divine. The colouring in the photograph of Lulu and I is just so spot on, and across all my photos they really but nailed it. I'm pretty impressed with Nushots.

WHAT'South THE VERDICT? I have to say I love Nushots. I recollect I'd be able to trust them with printing all my photos and nailing the colours. It'south only slightly more expensive than the cheapest options, but definitely wasn't the most expensive pick. I do beloved LALALAB. too though. Their printing is just superb. So it would be Nushots in number identify for quality, and LALALAB. 2nd.

And when it comes to inexpensive and cheerful, and getting the job washed, I estimate Officeworks wins that spot. They're not the most amazing quality, and not the worst either… and so when yous're paying 10c a photograph, I think y'all're onto a good thing.

WHERE Do YOU GET YOUR PHOTOS PRINTED? Have YOU TRIED ANY OF THE ABOVE OPTIONS?