Comments on: Help my pretty up my house!

Question: Help my pretty up my house!

antifuse — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:21:29 -0800

Where can I get large prints of digital photos done online? (Or locally in Toronto) I'm looking to print up some of my digital photos extra-big for my new house. I've already got the enlarging handled (Genuine Fractals is AWESOME), and I've got the frames, but now I'm looking for a place to print them out!

Basically, I'm looking to print out some pretty big images, that don't seem to be covered by your average online printing shops. One image I'm looking to print is 22"x28", and the other is 11 3/4" x 36". I tried a couple different online shops, and they all seem to max out at 20x30.

Obviously, I'm looking for high quality prints, but if it's an online shop it needs to ship to Canada, otherwise someplace in the GTA (Toronto) area would work either.

By: unixrat

unixrat — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:35:16 -0800

What about the the rasterbator with some high quality photo paper?

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:37:29 -0800

In Vancouver: ABC Photo print in large sizes using a variety of printing methods. I printed some of my images there, for gallery shows - their work is excellent and the quality is supreme.

By: Thin Lizzy

Thin Lizzy — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:40:52 -0800

Adorama is based in NYC but ships via UPS over. They can do 24x36 prints on either Kodak Lustre or Kodak Metallic paper. They're usually very good, but I would download the color profiles for the paper you choose and make sure all the colors look right. I don't know about the metallic paper, but I use the lustre paper a lot and I always need to boost the reds a little.

By: imjustsaying

imjustsaying — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:40:54 -0800

This company and this company are both local to me and do great work.

I would suggest you correspond via phone or email initially, because they use special RIPs with all of their large format printers and it's not beyond the realm of possibility that they'd prefer to uprez the files themselves for the specific printer they'll want to use.

I have no affiliation with either except as a satisfied customer.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:47:30 -0800

I think Pikto in the Distillery does this. Best to contact them and find out.

By: twiggy

twiggy — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:53:24 -0800

asked a mere two days ago...

By: antifuse

antifuse — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:03:23 -0800

Hrmm, I guess 2 days is too recent to show up in a MeFi search then, blast! Ahh well, more links any way!

By: god hates math

god hates math — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:09:12 -0800

I use EZPrints - the prices are excellent, as are the prints, and they do sizes up to 30x40.

By: bbranden1

bbranden1 — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:01:35 -0800

Printrates is a site that reviews photofinishers for various factors including cheapness (my favorite factor) and includes customer reviews

I haven't tried any of them, but the Fotoki site looked promising.

By: machine

machine — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:01:10 -0800

Blacks actually now has "poster size" prints available in a variety of sizes. The little stores often have to send them out for printing so it talks ~15 days or so but I've been pleased with the quality.

By: thenormshow

thenormshow — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:56:51 -0800

I've used London Drugs for a couple of 20X24's. They go as big as 24 by 96. They're out of Vancouver. Upload online, get prints in the mail. Prices here

London drugs is really quite good, but if you're looking for absolute top-drawer perfect prints up to 60 inches wide, try Pikto It's the good stuff, but you'll pay for it. Pikto is in the distillery district.

By: 3rdparty

3rdparty — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:27:57 -0800

Toronto Image Works

By: joeclark

joeclark — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:32:59 -0800

Moveable is in the Carpet Factory and can print essentially anything.