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From: "Roger Matthews" <r...@aber.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Suggest UK digital printing service
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:36:55 -0000
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"David J Taylor" 
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> Joel Dorfan wrote:
>> I am in SOuth Africa and want to send some digital images to a
>> printing service for delivery in London.
>>
>> Prices I have seen range from 4p to 10p for a 6x4. Why such a big
>> range?
>> Can you recommend one over the other (eg. pixdiscount,
>> directfoto,photodeal etc.).
>>
>> Images are about 3-4 MB from a Canon 350D. I want to send the
>> smallest image size for a 6x4 print, by how much must I reduce the
>> original image size?
>> Thanks
>>
>> Joel
>
> I would recommend PhotoBox:
>
>  http://www.photobox.co.uk/
>
> but I haven't done a comparison, simply that these people have a good 
> reputation and have provided good service.  We've been sending 5 - 8MP 
> images, using JPEGs where the file size is typically 1 - 2 MB.
>
> If you /must/ push the file size further, I would recommend at least 250 
> pixels per inch, so a size of 1500 x 1000 pixels, with a JPEG quality of 
> 25 in Paint Shop Pro.  Perhaps 200KB per image.
>
> David
I would recommend PhotoBox as well (and have to many friends). I have used 
them for a number of years and have never had a problem. These labs seem to 
always do well in Amateur Photographer (a popular British Camera Magazine) 
surveys  also.

Roger