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| DragonSpeed PRO Sun 2nd Oct 2005 04:20
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Anyone know of any good Internet accessible Canadian photo printing companies that will print a 24x36 on PHOTO paper, not inkjet?
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| Ruedi PRO Sun 2nd Oct 2005 14:36
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http://finerworks.com/
is from tx maybe you found one also in canada
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| iomanla Thu 6th Oct 2005 16:02
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Maybe a streach but Kodak here in Beijing does up to 20x30. Also see shops that do huge prints for advertising, one meter plus by how long? I figure if they do it here, you gotta find it in Canada.
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| DragonSpeed PRO Thu 6th Oct 2005 16:07
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ionmanla: Many places that go larger end up inkjetted and not photo :( Although I suppose that perhaps 20x30 might be OK too.
ruedi: Problem with US based, is that shipping gets expensive, and taxes etc... :(
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| Ruedi PRO Sat 8th Oct 2005 09:05
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¨lol you know photography seriously its expensive!
ï know it already well.
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| jomoud PRO Fri 28th Oct 2005 17:06
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DragonSpeed, I recently saw an advertisement from Staples, wherein they promoted large size custom printing. Apparently, it is not available in all their outlets, but check with your area stores. I personally do not have any experience with their service.
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| DragonSpeed PRO Fri 28th Oct 2005 18:21
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Thanks. I'll check with them!
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| Ettie Sat 18th Feb 2006 13:55
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Kinkos does large format on good paper. They are way way expensive. You'd be better off finding an individual that has a large format printer. I happen to know someone that has a fine art quality large format printer. I'm sure he'd do it for you for a fee...and it would be cheeper than Kinkos.
That size grabs you an extra charge at kinkos. It would be over a 150 US dollars.
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| DragonSpeed PRO Sat 18th Feb 2006 20:59
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Holy crap - $150USD. I can get it done at a digital photo processing lab for $60CAD. I was hoping that the inexpensive effect had trickled down from the 4x6 to the bigger stuff as well.
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| Offshore43 Mon 29th Oct 2007 21:44
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I found out Kinko's online and used them to try them out. 30.00 US dollars delivered to my front door, Awesome quality that's a 20x30 I talked to somebody else that had a 40X50 done for a special project they were working on and had Kinko's do it as well and they had great quality as well. You might want to check them out, seeing as they are part of Fed Ex, the shipping is liable to be cheaper than most places.
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| DragonSpeed PRO Tue 30th Oct 2007 17:54
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Originally posted by Offshore43:
I found out Kinko's online and used them to try them out. 30.00 US dollars delivered to my front door
Is this a photo print or an inkjet output? Inkjetting is fairly inexpensive. Photo printing seems to be $$$ :(
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| PhotoPro PRO Tue 30th Oct 2007 18:10
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Originally posted by DragonSpeed:
Is this a photo print or an inkjet output? Inkjetting is fairly inexpensive. Photo printing seems to be $$$ :(
I don't know about Kinko's but my 20x30's are photo prints
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| Jagged PRO Thu 1st Nov 2007 15:12
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Kinko's don't do photographic prints, at least not here in the UK.
Best to look for a lab near you in your local press. Most towns here still have them despite it being a tad more specialist than it used to be.
It won't be cheap at that size, hand printing is a slow process and machine prints rarely if ever come that large. You might want to consider getting whatever your original is professionally scanned and output on inkjet. The quality of modern large format inkjets is quite stunning (I know I have one here) and they can be output on strong fibre based papers just like photographic prints. As long as a good scanner is used (drum if it's a transparency) then you will be hard pressed to notice the difference.
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| DragonSpeed PRO Thu 1st Nov 2007 21:39
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Jagged... thanks for the input.
1) Funny how a topic from 2 years ago can come back :0
2) It's a digital original, so no worries about scanning.
3) Will the Inkjet have the same "look and feel" as photo paper? That "photographic feel"?
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| Jagged PRO Thu 1st Nov 2007 22:12
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Originally posted by DragonSpeed:
Funny how a topic from 2 years ago can come back
1. Oops ;)
3. Only if printed on a fibre based paper. Such as these:
"Da Vinci" available from
http://www.paperandinks.com/
or Innova fibra print from
http://www.marrutt.com/innova.php
Large format printers will happily print sheet fed so you are not restricted to the flimsier 190gram papers that most bureaus use. I find a decent 250 gsm gloss paper is good enough, but if you want to go the whole hog it has to be the fibre based papers.
Talk to your local bureaus and see what they can provide. Avoid those horrid canvas prints.
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| DragonSpeed PRO Fri 2nd Nov 2007 00:40
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Thanks for the tips. I'll reinvestigate.
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