I have a zillion pics on my computer from my digital camera, and I need to get a ton printed out. I did about 130 of them at Walmart the other day for 24 bucks (should have been a few dollars more, but they weren't done on time so she discounted me). The photo lady mentioned that Costco costs 19 cents a print, which would be great, except no Costco membership. CVS is 29 cents a print, wal-mart is 24 cents a print. Haven't checked anywhere else, but I guess I'll be checking Eckard tomorrow. But just wondering, where everyone else gets their printed.. don't want to do it somewhere online, b/c I have a slow computer and don't want to bother uploading each and every picture... And I'm not going to print them up myself, b/c they are for scrapbooking.

We get ours done at rite aid, .29 cents a print. i crop and edit and take out red eye with the kodak thing they have there.

I know you said you don't want to do them on-line, but if they are already on the computer they won't take that long to upload (if you can do big files at once). Yahoo photos is 24 cents and Shutterfly has a good deal if you prepay. Otherwise, I don't think you will get less than the 24 cents at WalMart unless you go w/a Costco membership.

Walmart or Sam's Club if I have to, otherwise I upload and print on snapfish.com :D

online - ofoto

at the store - wal-mart, they seemed to be the cheapest I could find around here

walmart.com - I can either pick them up at the store, or I can have them mailed to me for a small fee (I think it was $1.50 for mailing or something like that)

www.clubphot.com has a sale going and the prints are 17 cents. They have matte and glossy prints.

I use Walmart. They pring on Fuji paper, which I like. They are relatively fast and I just use the online service and choose to pick up at the store.

I have used snapfish and shutterfly, but those are WAY more expensive.

Please, please, please, BACK UP your photos to a CD. DO NOT let them just sit on your computer. Back them ALL up. Burn them to a CD.

Good luck!

The best deal I've come across is Sam's Club for 18¢. If you don't have a membership, you can upload and order online for 23¢.

Originally posted by TheBabysBum
[BPlease, please, please, BACK UP your photos to a CD. DO NOT let them just sit on your computer. Back them ALL up. Burn them to a CD.[/B]

ITA!! I've got all of mine backed up on disks, atleast two of each of the disks incase anything happens to them! I back them up atleast once a month to make sure they are all safe, ya never know what can happen!!!

Oh and I'll have to check out Sams Club to see if ours does pictures.. online is not an option, I have dialup and uploading a hundred pictures an order is not my idea of a good time. It take me less than five minutes to select them all and hit order when I do them on the machine at wal-mart. I'm getting 100 pics developed every payday until they are all printed out and ready to be scrapbooked! LOL

And I'm not going to print them up myself, b/c they are for scrapbooking.

I print mine from my digital camera myself. I have a photo printer and use Kodak paper and i use mine for scrapbooking and they have been perfect. Mine come out REALLY nice and won't turn colors or gross when they are older. I've been doing this for a while now and my brother has been printing his for years now for my sil who also does scrapbooking. I have a Canon i470D. My brother has the same one and we both love it. The printers you can get at tigerdirect.com on good sales. They just had this exact one on sale for $50(awesome deal for an awesome printer). The paper is pretty cheap. i got 20 sheets of Kodak 4x6 photo for $2.49. I personally like doing my own. Some people like having them printed. The ink I get cheap on eBay for $3 black ink and $4 color ink. My pictures come out to look like they were done at a film processing place alot of times better. I guess it depends on if you wanna print your own or have them done for you. I've had nothing but good luck with mine. For rolls of film, I take mine to Walmart or Target. Personally at my Walmart, they do a MUCH better job than Target so i usually go there.

Originally posted by Kimmyboo
I print mine from my digital camera myself. I have a photo printer and use Kodak paper and i use mine for scrapbooking and they have been perfect. Mine come out REALLY nice and won't turn colors or gross when they are older.

Actually, unless you are using special photo ink.. (I can't remember the name, but Renata knows) it most likely will fade as time goes on. Photo printing needs special ink in order not to fade over the years. At least thats what has been told to me by professional printers (like Renata!)

~C

Originally posted by LaVieBoheme
Actually, unless you are using special photo ink.. (I can't remember the name, but Renata knows) it most likely will fade as time goes on. Photo printing needs special ink in order not to fade over the years. At least thats what has been told to me by professional printers (like Renata!)

~C

Oh wow, thanks for the compliment. I haven't been around much, so didn't see this thread till now. Most inkjet printers' ink will fade relatively soon if exposed to light consistently. For photos that are going to be in the light a lot, archival inks can be used to make much longer-lasting prints (this and the rest of the post is about inkjet printers). Epson C-series (ie C84, etc) printers use archival inks called DuraBrite, I think, and although there's some controversy as to the actual life of print, it's definitely waaaaay longer than non-archival. For the other printers, you could buy 3rd party archival inks ( http://www.mediastreet.com comes to mind, through I haven't tried them), but most archival inks will not print on glossy paper.

Photo labs that print the digital photos on regular printer usually use dye-sublimation printers with special uv-protecting coating on the paper, I think, but I might be wrong about this - not my "domain".