Comments on: Layout Printing Reviews

By: Chari

Chari — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:45:04 +0000

Amy,
The site is working properly. It is a tough one to spell.
try http://www.persnicketyprints.com
thanks,
Chari

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:00:08 +0000

Sadly, I can’t get the link or the persnickity prints link to open.

I use Mpix for my photography and love it. The only thing though I have printed on their epaper is my 365 4X6′s. I think the real power of mpix is in their other papers. . . I especially love the metallic for larger prints- for one thing it pulls out the flakes of colors in DH’s blue eyes and they’re just so much more life like.

I also choose no color management etc from them- I do that from my own computer.

But, I can’t really justify the $5 it would be for my 12X12 pages to go into my albums.

Not totally pleased with scrapbookpictures, but I can’t even get the persnickety prints site to open.

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:35:17 +0000

Thank you SO much for this info!! I’ve hesitated with having prints done up because I fear I’ll get horrible results after paying a good chunk of money. You have helped me immensely!! Thank you for all your research and such thorough results!!

By: Ashley Bailey

Ashley Bailey — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:03:49 +0000

This is awesome, Steph….thanks!

By: Andrea McLaughlin

Andrea McLaughlin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:43:56 +0000

Great review! Makes me think about how I’m a big fan of Buy Local whenever I can. Using a pro photo lab near you not only gives back to your community, but you also get better service over the long term when you develop relationships with people who do your work. They get to know you and how you like your prints to look. The people there tend to be well trained – not just button pushers. Besides you can still upload to professional labs and just travel once to pick up your job. Small high end local labs can do all kinds of cool stuff you may not even know about and you can check it out in person rather than on a screen – metallic prints, giclee prints, canvas, vellum and even sheer fabric. Stuff like that.

Thank you again for this thought provoking comparison. It would be interesting to do this test in 6 months and see how consistent the results are.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:44:33 +0000

What a wonderful thing you have done for us! Thank you. I will have to provide a link to this on my own Blog. Thanks again

By: Linda Walton aka bobbysgirlforever

Linda Walton aka bobbysgirlforever — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:05:05 +0000

Stephanie, I happened across this post last night while in the midst of my own blog post, which speaks of my choosing Shutterfly to fit my personal need of compiling photos from our large families to create a family yearbook! WOW, what timing!

I thank you for such a thorough review of these sources you have personally experienced and I have linked to your review as well as Wendy’s on creating photo books at the end of my post! I hope you don’t mind as I always wish to present options to my readers.

Both yours and Wendy’s posts are invaluable and I SO appreciate The Daily Digi for it’s plethora of information regarding the needs of a scrapbooker!

Wishing you a lovely and productive week!

By: Balinda

Balinda — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:44:05 +0000

I have used Scrapbook Pictures, Scrapping Simply and Persnickety Prints and my absolute FAVE is Persnickety. The colors were true, Customer service fabby and shipping was pretty darn fast. =)

By: denali

denali — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:16:55 +0000

Oh! I neglected to mention, it’s cheaper to order photocards via the website vs. in-store. The last bundle of photocards I did (200) saved me $7.00 by ordering via the website. Interesting, huh? Oh, and I had that order printed twice because I didn’t like the color the first time (the background turned out grey instead of brown) and they gave me a refund no questions asked. I LOVE their customer service.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:03:05 +0000

I’ve used walmart, winkflash, and scrapbook pictures and I would say that scrapbook pictures was my favorite as far as best color from those three, but I totally agree you get better color on their cheaper paper. My friend got a HUGE print from them and I would have say that it looks pretty impressive.