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Re: [LUG] Online photo printing

 

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 08:46 +0000, Paul Hirst wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using f-spot to manage all our photos and my better half has
> decided we should get a large selection of them printed. I assume
> doing this online is a good plan so I'm looking for some
> recommendations. Photo quality and price are obviously important but I
> really want to know if any companies make this easy from Linux and in
> particular from f-spot.

I've used Jessops in store printing several times and found it to be
excellent quality with very nicely balanced prints (I'm a wannabe
amateur photographer)

For bulk prints though that I don't need "spot-on" like for the wifes
crafting I use photobox as they seem "ok", the price is especially good
as you get 20 free prints for signing up. All you pay for is postage.
Register yourself a new gmail, register on photobox, enjoy 20 free
prints, other services prolly do a similar offer.

For the odd print needed for a journalling page or popping in a frame, I
have a HP photoprinter, the A636 I think it is which is excellent, its
damned expensive to print photo's yourself, certainly do avail yourself
of online services except for the odd one or two here and there.

A little tip by the way, when you are looking through photos I use
gThumb as my normal everyday image viewer and in the preferences it has
hot keys, bind one to do something like:

cp %f /home/subbass/data/print/

All the photo's you want to print get copied to a print folder, all
ready to upload super easy :]

-- 
John Williams
My linux blog of notes and guides
http://subbass.blogspot.com/

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