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[D368]Digital Photo Online Printing
by Carla San Gaspar, Car
Online printing has a lot of advantages. It would only require minimal time and effort as well to have your project be printed. However, since you would not be seeing the people you are dealing with face-to-face, there may be a little bit of trust issue that can hinder the fulfillment of this.

Selecting the most professional online printing company could be tedious but could also be rewarding as well. The most important part of choosing an online company to trust your printing job would be to see if they specialize on the kind of print that you need.

Knowing if it is their specialization limits the room for mistake and thus you can be rest assured that they already have enough practice in your kind of project. And they would be able to contribute as well on what your project is missing in a very objective way.

Choosing an online printing company to do your printing job for you would also entail that you can get a quote from them on the project that you have on hand. You can try asking them the difference in their rate if you were to buy it by bulk or by the minimum.

Be wary of online printing companies that would be providing you a quote that is too good to be true. Because if they were able to provide you with a low cost in printing your project, be suspicious because they may be using materials of inferior quality and you may end up not being satisfied with the quality of their work.

Most printing companies would be more than happy to provide you samples of their past projects that could help you further decide how you want your project to be done. Having their samples right at your hand would give you a better understanding on what materials they use on their printing jobs. You could also inquire with them what kind of equipments they use to do their printing jobs. All of these would be able to help you make up your mind on the best printing company you would want to hire.

And lastly, don’t be scared to call up their customer service representatives. Their job is to assist you and answer any questions that you may have in regards to their printing jobs. Talking to a live person can help you better understand how things work inside their company. Do not assume that you know and understand how they do things there.

Most printing companies even extend their services by delivering your project anywhere you want it delivered. This could help you save more on your time of having to pick up the printed projects from the location of the printing company, the effort of having to commute all the way there just to pick up your project and of course money because you wouldn’t need to spend on gas anymore for the commute right?


Let's cut right to the chase. What does it cost to print your own photos? Everybody likes the convenience of printing their own photos at home, but nobody is satisfied with the quality. I will show you that the cost is actually much higher and the quality is much lower when you print your own photos at home as opposed to having them printed by a professional developer. I will also let you know what a good alternative is. First, let's look at the costs of doing your photos at home.

Cost of printing at home

Supplies and cost w/tax

Med. Quality Photo paper $19.66/100 sheets.

Color and B&W Ink $61.61.

Photo Printer $382.49.

Photo Editing Software $53.11.

Total cost $516.87.


Total cost per Photo $1.64.

WOW! That is expensive

Before you say I am crazy I will prove that these are conservative costs. The medium quality photo paper was priced on clearance at Office Max. The monotone and color cartridges were priced as a combo deal. The photo printer was the PSC 950 which is in most regards a cheap printer. Last but not least the editing software was not Adobe Photoshop which can cost over $500. It was a cheap Microsoft version that will do simple editing on images and video.

This is also assuming that you only print 10 photos per week, and that you only use your printer and software for two years. If we used a more realistic number for instance 10 photos per month then the cost per photo would go up to $3.04. For the ink I used 60 full color sheets per set of cartridges. I have never been able to print over 20. With other printing on that same printer I only got about 8 full pages out of the cartridges. The pictures were so bad that they ended up in the garbage. So the prices of photos can range from $1.64 per photo to over $3. Pretty costly for prints that you cannot display or hang on your walls.

Printing them online and having them mailed or picked up costs much less?

How about uploading your pictures to a professional and having them ready to pick up in one hour? Or uploading them to a professional and having quality prints mailed to you for prices as low as 12 cents per print?

Article Source : Online Photo Printing

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