I need a good lab I can upload my photo's to print and ship to me?

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I'm looking for a lab online that offers high quality printing on (preferably) Kodak Professional ENDURA paper!

I live in a smaller town in Pennsylvania and I have a bunch of wedding photo's I am wanting to print out for Christmas. The photographer we used for our engagement pictures did our prints on Kodak Professional ENDURA paper and I love the look of it a lot better than the normal "glossy". I was going to order then through iPhoto but all they have is that glossy and honestly, the quality of the prints seemed "washed out" compared to what they look like on my MacBook Pro!

So what I'm looking for is a high quality lab online that I can upload the wedding photo's I've edited via Lightroom 2.0. A lab that will then make the prints for me and ship them to me. So does anyone here used a good lab that they liked or know of any good ones?

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

taxreff · Accepted Answer

I use Mpix (www.mpix.com) for most of my printing.  I have also used Elco (www.elcocolor.com).  Elco is more expensive and slower than Mpix, but Elco does prints up to life size, while Mpix stops at 20x30.

jazmine · Answer

I'm sure you got, and will get more answers of what stores to go to, what sites do that. None are free, and by the time you go through all that hastle, Why not just invest in a small photo printer? buy a whole package of photo paper and do them right at home? Be easier wouldn't it? To answer part of your question, you cannot put it back onto your SD card. You can pick up a flash drive, plug that into your usb port and it works like any disk. Just save your work to that. I'm pretty sure those photo places can read flash drives.

Nightrider · Answer

http://bestcolorphoto.lifepics.com/net/Default.aspx

I had some pleasing results with these people in above link. They are in downtown Manhattan - you can pick them up the next day or have it sent to you anywhere in Canada or USA. Shipping incl.

Once they had a promo for 5cents a print. I do not know if they still have that. You upload your pic to their server and they send you the prints. Prepay using your ccard.

I had my Xmas cards done with my family pic. inside. You may wish to give them a try.

Anonymous · Answer

I use Meridian, they use Kodak Endura paper and do a great job, their prices are good too.

http://meridianpro.com/products-pricing.html

Picture Taker · Answer

I just want to add a vote for Mpix.  Use M-M's link above.  They are a  great company.

Mere Mortal · Answer

http://www.mpix.com/

I need a good lab I can upload my photo's to print and ship to me?

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