Digital Prints Roundup

Author: Chris

Why is it that there seems to be no market standard for digital prints, and why is it that photolabs seem to charge more for digital prints than for film prints. Some companies like Futureshop and Bestbuy have caught on it seems, but others - like the Loblaws Photolab are still charging the equivalent of traditional film prints.

Here’s my roundup of digital prints for regular 4×6 prints of your digital photos. If you have rates from other places you get your photos printed, it would be great if you could share them. Just leave a comment below.  Costco seems to be leading the pack at 18 cents, but thats on top of you already having paid a membership fee, and I’m not sure what kind of photo paper they use, though i’ve seen prints and they look good to me.

Futureshop makes the claim that their Kodak Royal Generations paper is what makes them almost ten cents better than "supermarket" prints, but the majority of them use Kodak paper, so the differences are likely just a heavier print. It would be interesting to see if other cheaper printers use the same paper.

 

3 Comments so far

  1. sydmommy on February 5th, 2006

    I have been using Walmart to have my photos printed for some time now. I have always been happy with the photos. They are good quality, and the delivery is fast. During the holidays this past year I had quite a few photos developed to make photo albums for family and about a week later I received an email stating that they were doing photos for 14 cents per print. I guess the lesson to be learned here is to wait. I have noticed they do this around all the major holidays. It is however a limited time offer….just my opinion of course.

  2. robmaeder on March 8th, 2006

    This post was very helpful to me in deciding where to get my digital photos from my Dominican trip printed. I was planning to go to Walmart anyway, so I got them done there. I printed about 90 pictures at $0.24 each - just under $25 after taxes. I was really happy with the way the pictures came out. They are crisp and clear and the colours are really vibrant. Using their in-store kiosk thing to upload all my files from CD was pretty cool and easy to use. I’d definitely get my prints done at Walmart again, but I’m interested in seeing the quality of some of the other stores.

  3. titans_88 on December 15th, 2006

    Loblaws has a tiered digital print pricing system.

    49 prints or under is 24 cents a print.

    Anything above 49 prints is 19 cents a print.

    Loblaws also uses Fuji superia paper, as their processors, chemicals, di stations and developers are all Fuji systems.

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