Where to print digital pics in Cork?

unityofsaints

Hi,

I was wondering of any of ye know a good place to get digital pics printed after all the unsharp masking, cropping and levels adjusting has been done! I thought there might be a stick on this subject but no luck I'm on my first D-SLR (nikon D50) and have yet to get anything printed.

I wonder if it's standard for these places to accept 24-bit, adobe RGB *.tiff files in 300 dpi?

Thanks in advance for the help.

haz

unityofsaints wrote:

I wonder if it's standard for these places to accept 24-bit, adobe RGB *.tiff files in 300 dpi?

I put some JPEGS onto a compactflash card and onto a CD and had them printed at Sam Macauley Chemists who have a special offer at the moment. I don't know if their machine does TIFF - it probably does if any major camera brand saves it to memory card, but not if it is a software only format. I had JPEG printed about A1 size at an office repro place about halfway along the South side of the South Mall.

Boots, Spectra and the photo shops (e.g. Bridge Street) all have "self-service" (actually you have to leave the card overnight) printing machines from memory card or CD, from 11c per print - all cheaper and better quality than my own printer, but I've only used the one place so can't say which is best.

Calina

unityofsaints, I strongly, strongly recommend Photobox.ie (or .co.uk) who are my preferred printers. As I only do a print run every few months I can cope wiht waiting for the postal delivery so if now now now is where it's at, I can't help.

unityofsaints

Calina wrote:

unityofsaints, I strongly, strongly recommend Photobox.ie (or .co.uk) who are my preferred printers. As I only do a print run every few months I can cope wiht waiting for the postal delivery so if now now now is where it's at, I can't help.

I'm not in a rush to print anything, but I've signed up to photobox and they don't seem to support *.tiff... I suppose I'll have to convert to jpg before upload. Their prices seem good so thanks for the tip Calina!

Carrigman

Photobox is definitely the best (you have to convert to jpeg) but if you want some prints in a hurry Harvey Norman's (off the Kinsale Road roundabout) self service is very good and very reasonable. Again, convert your pics to jpeg first.

DaireQuinlan

I'll third (or fourth) photobox, never gotten anything but superlative prints from them. Send them as JPG with an sRGB profile and they'll presume you know what you're doing and not make any alterations. Nowhere accepts anything but JPGs, just save them as high quality (or 12 or whatever) and you won't notice any difference anyway.

haz

DaireQuinlan wrote:

Nowhere accepts anything but JPGs

I didn't ask any further as I had JPEGs, but the self-serve machines claim to take the cards direct from major brand cameras, so don't they support Canon and Nikon raw formats?

rymus

I've gotten stuff printed at McCauleys, Harvey Norman and a few more around Cork but I'd only ever trust photobox. Everyone else is just having a larf (especially Flor Griffins)

DaireQuinlan

haz wrote:

I didn't ask any further as I had JPEGs, but the self-serve machines claim to take the cards direct from major brand cameras, so don't they support Canon and Nikon raw formats?

I have no idea, I was just talking about all the online places. Those self service machines are a bit of a rip-off from what I can see anyway, they only do dye-sub or inkjet prints onto inkjet paper. Photobox use fuji frontier machines to expose fuji photo paper in a conventional photographic way. Multi colored lasers or some such technological stuff. Whenever I get film developed I always try and get it done in fuji places, the kodak lab machines print digitally, the fuji machines use the above method. Looks better, will probably last longer. Then I scan the negatives, mess around with them and send the keepers off to photobox anyway :-)