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@doreenpollock8496

5 жыл бұрын

I wanted to start to use MPIX for my wedding albums but they have no tel. phone no. for customer service.

4 years later and I think this is in need of an update.

@xpodx

3 жыл бұрын

and upload at 8k

@ssthapit

2 жыл бұрын

6 years later now

@VulgarUltra

Жыл бұрын

Seven...

@dialectixemcee2428

6 ай бұрын

8

Just ordered from MPix for the first time because of your review. I am so very happy with the quality! Just simply fantastic! Printed several portraits as well as several macro shots that needed brilliant colors and dark blacks. It all came out perfect. It is nice to see several years after your review that Mpix still doesn't disappoint. Thank you both for the guidance!

Can you do a review comparison of large format canvas prints?

@ivangrdinic2605

4 жыл бұрын

Good question.

I work at a print shop and the colors are always changing! There are so many more variables than people tend to imagine.

Thanks for this video! I wanted high quality pics and wasn't sure what site was the best. Great info!!

Suggestion: Take a photo of X-rite color chart, use their Lightroom plug-in to standardize it and have it printed by those print serviced in order to test their color accuracies.

This video came at a perfect time, thank you so much for this review. Love watching you guys

I absolutely love this review. Many thanks. New fan and rather new to photography. I recently picked up your book. I truly enjoy your videos. :)

Thanks Tony and Chelsea! I found this video very informative and useful to make an informed choice about my printing service.

Mpixs is owned by Miller's Lab, printed on the same machines in the same building.

@littlehouseofbig2138

5 жыл бұрын

Different level of attention to detail though.

Thanks very much for doing this important work. I wouldn't have been able to afford to do a test like this but I really value the information you gathered by doing it. I was already using Mpix exclusively, and recommending it to the people I sell photos to, so that's great news. Thanks again guys.

Thanks for this. Very helpful! I think you are about the first to acknowledge the COST with home printing - everybody I follow seems to rave about it, but nobody talks about rejects/reprints/paper/ink/time sink. I really want to give Bay Photo a try, but sheesh, they are tough to figure out... Appreciate that validation too!

I've been looking for a good place to print. You guys just did me a huge favor, thanks!

Thanks Tony and Chelsea. Printing services was a perfect topic! Thanks for covering this. I have often wondered who is the best, or where to send my pics. I have used MPix, Shutterfly, Adorama, Costco & Walmart (and Fracture). So those are the ones I know about. My only concern is you only used one photo to do the judging. If you judged a different photo I wonder if you would get completely different results?

Thanks so much i really needed this research. Keep it up guys.

This is a great video, saves me having to try everywhere !!! Do you count canvas with in these recommendations or would that have to be a different video ?

Been using MPIX for years, mostly canvas prints. Fantastic Video! Thanks For Sharing!

Thanks for making this video. I've only had my prints done at Costco, and for the most part, they did a pretty good job, but it's nice to see what other services are available. Will have to check out Mpix and a few of the other top ones you mentioned. Thanks.

I started researching this topic a few months back and found WHCC. It was really the first company I decided to give a shot. When they sent me the test 8X10s I was so blown away that I decided to stick with them without looking anywhere else. Overjoyed to see you two rate them so highly. Not bad for a printing noob like myself...

Comparison reviews are the best! This video was very helpful. I'll definitely be trying MPIX now. Please do a follow up video on best practices for submitting your photos to an online printer.

Hi Tony, I'm a big fan of you guys. I love these video and i just wanted to ask you guys for a favor or suggest a future video you guys could make. It's about calibrating our monitors. You guys have a lot of videos so i don't know if you have made a video about calibrating your monitor or not, but if you haven't, it would be awesome to see one since calibrating our monitors and knowing about printer profiles has a lot to do with getting a great print just like we see it on our monitors :-)

T&C, I love this video and have watched it a few times. Good stuff. The video has a 5th birthday coming up and I'm sure a lot of things have changed over those years. Any chance on an updated review of printing services?

Great video. Thank you very much! Would love to see a similar review where you try different types of pictures, not only portraits. Maybe testing black and white, high key, low key, landscape and wildlife images will provide a more complete results. In any case, thank you for the great work.

Please do another print service video! Love your content, thank you guys, you're the best!

Thanks for doing the print test. I trust your judgement. I'll have to do my print test between my Pixma 100 vs Mpix. Generally I'm extremely satisfies with my prints at home. My home prints look exactly like my calibrated home Mac. Thanks for video. You guys are awesome.

Great! Thank you both for the review!

Thanks for the input. It was 5 years since you made the video but the information is very much appreciated. I use H&H almost exclusively as they are local and I review the photos on pickup. They are very gracious about reprinting anything of concern. I hear from some folks contending that Costco might be a decent quality printing. I have never tried them.

In Australia, two a award-winning printers that I use are, InkFX, in Gold Coast and CG Printing and Framing, in Gold Coast.

Nice and informative video as always!!!! It would be nice if could put together a video of how to prep a picture for printing

Nice shot of the Portland Head Light

Thank you so much for doing this! Very helpful info.

Did you use the regular Mpix or MpixPro for this comparison?

Thanks for the Video, this was great and very helpful

Hi Chelsea and Tony, Curious about your workflow from RAW to printing. Assuming the printservfices use halide paper; therefore color range is less then sRGB and you start from a RAW file with a huge colorspace. Do you check for colorshifts appearing when converting to sRGB using soft proofing always? What type/subject of photos are more proned to colorshifts then others? Also; you get good results in Lightroom soft proofing compared to Photoshop? Thanks for your reaction

Thank you for doing this, was just wondering how to tell which ones were the best...

Thanks enjoyed the vid! Which company would you choose for printing on metal or aluminum ?

I use Bay Photo and I have never been disappointed. Their products are amazing. I will say that I do all of the adjustments and rarely select the color adjustment option. Although when I have, it has been just fine. You do need to go outside the web browser and download the Java application Bay ROES. It is a bit clunky until you use it a few times. It's pretty seamless after you get used to it. I'm not convinced to switch based on this video comparison. I'll keep looking but I'm pretty happy with the products, shipping and prices at Bay Photo.

Thanks for the info. I am in the process of using an online service to print my photos and am currently researching which company is the best.

thanks guys this was informative

Love the video, I've used MPIX because they are close to local and located in the tow I went to college in. Was glad to see them at #1. Expecially since I just ordered a 20-30 about an hour before watching this video.

Thanks for the good info. Question, please: Were the technicians of the printing companies allowed to make color correction?

@TonyAndChelsea

8 жыл бұрын

+Ricardo Silva yes

Thank you for the reviews. I had a bad experience with Adorama and have been trying to sort through the multiple choices of who to try next. Looks like Mpix.

Thank you! This was very helpful for me :)

I'd like to see an update to this video. I've been using mpix like suggested in this video and have liked the results. My only issue with them is getting more than the standard sizes.

This was really useful, thanks guys :)

Very helpful video Thanks guys you are the best

omg guys, that's a great answer. How about comparing photobook websites? (or just tell us right away which one to go to right away :D)

I've used MPIX exclusively, just by chance, since jumping back into my love for photography a year ago and have been very pleased with my results and their customer service. Your review makes me feel better about my choice! I will definitely checkout Fracture, as that seems to be an interesting medium. Thanks for your review(s)!

Thank you. Really help me up

Thanks, T & C....since I have been using #10 for years and never completely satisfied, it's good to have options.

Did you upload an sRGB or an Adobe RGB image?

thanks for kicking off with the disclaimer about your ad. Good review. Im not sure Ive seen it but Id love to see comparisons between Metal/Glass/Acrylic print styles or places as well.

Thank you! This video definitely helped. I have used adorama before, wasn't happy, have tried a couple others that were fine, and will now have more options to try. Thanks guys! P.S. If I use fracture I will use tony, cause I think he's so handsome. But Cheslea is so fun to watch and I love your guy's channel. So much info to glean here!

Perfect timing..I had a photo book made and that company that did it does not make prints. That saves a lot of time, money and frustration. Thank you Tony & Chelsea.

Thank you for the comparisons review!! Saved me $$$!!! LoL!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Making this video was an excellent idea. Thanks.

Thank you for making useful videos that actually help people ! @Canadians, any recommendation for a print service ? I've only tried Posterjack for canvas print, turned out very good but couldn't compare

Hi Chelsea & Tony, I tried Costco (Canada) twice this year and was pleasantly surprised ! I compared the color/tone/exposure and clarity of the photos with my calibrated monitor and give them a 48/50.

Love you for your help.

Great idea for a video. If you do another one like this could you include examples of some of the different types of photography such as landscape, astro, indoor etc so we can see the differences in dynamic range and color in different shooting situations?.

@extremelydave

6 жыл бұрын

That's a really good point Mr Farmer. We *DO* take more that portrait photographs...............

Great video guys!

Great video. I started using cloudspot for delivering pictures to clients and they use whcc for when a customer orders prints. I had been curious to see how they compared. Thanks for another great video.

Can you guys do an update on this video as there are more printing labs online now?

Certainly good to see a comparison like this, but......would have been more valuable if a few different images were sent in at different times to each printer to get a more accurate idea of how the quality is overall .

*_I live in CA and my go-to online lab is Bayphoto. Their Fuji Pearl paper is unlike anything I've ever seen. Service is great and shipping arrives via Fedex in 2 days (if you live in the west coast). All these other ones are out of state and takes up to a week to get to me. I didn't like Mpix because they only print on 3 kinds of paper. No variety at all. I like printing on matte paper that yields no light reflection and they didn't offer that. Mpix may be good enough for your snapshots but for photographers who want fine art prints to hang on their wall? Nope. Another one I tried and will not be going back to is EZ Prints. Their products are no different than what your local Costco can do and for cheaper too._*

Thanks +Tony Northrup for this comparison - the title really caught my eye as I'm always wondering about the different companies. I find MPIX Pro and Bayphoto are my 'go to' printers depending upon what I'm printing. Since I print mostly 40x60 inch prints and larger for commercial, hospitality and wellness locations, I use Bayphoto as they can do the larger prints on a range of fine art papers. Both do excellent work, especially if you let them do color corrections to ensure the images are right on their printers. Bayphoto also allows me to get 4' x 8' metal prints and can combine multiple sheets that size. (Nikon D800E and a set of Really Right Stuff multirow panoramic rails are used for the really large images.)

Excellent work, very helpful. Thanks!!!

Got a canon pro-10 and I print up to 13x19" home and really happy I did. It's a lot of fun and so important to print your work. There is nothing like printing home to control the result from start to finish including colors, paper, framing etc. I would strongly recommend printing home if you can. Take some of the money you would invest in collecting lenses and bodies with more mpixel / focus points and instead get yourself a good monitor and a printer.

It has been 3 years and I think its time to revisit this and compare image quality again to see if any of the services improved and maybe add a service or two. It would be expensive but would be really cool to do a comparison of canvas wraps as well.

Thank you for this video. I was looking at the Walmart print that you guys have and it looks like they cropped the photo. Her shoulder is no longer in the frame.

Thank you for the comparison of print services. It was very helpful. I agree with Tony about Bay Photo. I e-mailed them a few months ago letting them know how difficult it was using their site. I am just surprised that the difference in print quality from #1 to #3 was very noticeable, but there was only a 1.5 point difference. I received sample prints from a few services and still not sure who to use.

With AdoramaPix you can choose to have your digital photo color corrected or not. I send my in with the box unchecked and they look Identical to my monitor display. You should try it both ways and I'm sure that all the others Labs also allow for color correction / or not type check box. Have a great day.

You guys should do this comparison again since it's been 3 years...very interesting to see the results then, and I think the results now could be very useful to see how (and if) the technology/industry has changed. I'd suggest to compare 3 different photos for each, all on the same paper if possible. To control some of the cost, maybe 1 each of 4x6, 5x7, 8x10. Thanks for the helpful video as always!

How about a review of black and white prints? Thanks.

Would you two consider making a video explaining color profiles in relation to printing. I have a pretty bad monitor, and I am having a lot of trouble understanding what my prints are going to turn out like. Thanks!

@Ladywrip

7 жыл бұрын

Pleeeeeeeeese answer this man's question, Tony & Chelsea?!

@hernandezzAG

6 жыл бұрын

Kevin Adams that's such a great question. It's been a year since you posted this I hope you found your answer.

@DBLRedRibbon

6 жыл бұрын

Try looking in the settings for your monitor for an "RGB" setting, or look for a "neutral" setting. I dont have a great monitor for editing pictures or calibration equipment, but since I found this setting my prints come out looking pretty close to what I see on my monitor. Hope that helps

I agree with Gerry Marchese. I've used Adoramapix for several years and have gotten great results. As stated, do not let them adjust your images. You need to have a color adjusted monitor and use their printer profile based on the paper you select. The photo books I've done are absolutely stunning! And on an occasional instance when something was not right, their customer service has been great. They will gladly reprint the job to your satisfaction.

Excellent and timely for me.

Thanks for making this informative video Tony and Chelsea. I just ordered a Canon Pixma Pro 100, then cancelled the order after hearing Tony's comments during the opening. Some years back I felt the same way and was hopeful that home printing improved. I guess not. Two points; First is that I used Fracture for a small desktop glass print, I think its a 5x7 and it is fantastic. Bald eagle in flight during a blizzard, and this piece catches everyone's attention. Its a classy way to sport a picture! Great customer service, too! Second, I've been using MPIX for a few years and was pleased to find that you' discovered similar findings as I have. Their Fuji Pearl finish paper is worth the little extra, fast shipping in good packaging and again..great customer service. They handle all of my client's prints - weddings and more! You guys have given so much to the photography community. Can't thank you enough, especially for the content rich books at affordable prices. Keep up the good work and God bless...

I wish there was guys like you's in England to compare them all from here

Thank you so much for this video! I needed to know what the best places to print was. Only problem with MPix was we got hacked twice after using them. :(

very informative guys, keep it going..

began with MPix, and moved to BayPhoto after a couple of years. I wish they had checked out AspenPhoto. I've thought about giving them a try in the past, but net got around to it.

Thanks folks. I was trying to figure out what PITA printer to get and you gave probably the best answer. Always concerned about getting what I want, but I'll give mPix a try.

after seeing this i sent off a file to Mpix to see how their quality was and have to admit i am very impressed. they processed it in a day and i had them ship overnight so it just showed up. the packaging was very sturdy and the print itself came out as well as i could have expected. definitely means i'm not going to be buying myself a printer. thanks so much for publishing this.

Some of the best youtube sites are those who don't condemn others,Chelsea and Tony well done,you are amount the best,that's for sure!!

Hi - Any opinion of Miller's Lab?

I was pretty disappointment in the photo quality of my Christmas cards last year. We used Shuttershock. Part of me wondered if the quality was just you got for those types of things, but maybe not. In the future I'll be trying out MPix. Thank you for the video!

Very helpful information. Liked the actual print results compared. Same photo for each service was a good way to compare. Pricing was helpful. Price per print. Easy use of website is important. Recommendations based on real use are meaningful. Good job, Chelsea and Tony.

Here in Brazil when I print small batches or B&W I go to the local store which uses a Kodak printer. For larger bathces I'm testing the IPSISPro service, they print the photobooks for the most renown photographers here, like Araquém Alcantara.

I love Mpix, BUT their shipping kills me every time. Paying $7 in shipping for an 8x10 is quite excessive. However, I had some prints made at Shutterfly for a photography contest I entered. Saved on cost over Mpix, but the results were disappointing to say the least. I had a beautiful Ixora photo that was just a blob of red. No shadows in the red, no highlights on the edge of the blooms. Just red. Lesson learned.

you guys are awesome !!!!

I've only used Mpix out of all of these. Glad to see I chose wisely.

Awesome reviews. I do have to say the I am not a Wal Mart fan, but the one by my house delivers great photos if I need them in a pinch. I have actually enjoyed their quality. But I would prefer another place. I have actually been using Nations Photo Lab with excellent results. But I love your videos!

I just got shutterfly prints and cards. They were pretty good so I'm going to use your #1 recommendation and see if Shutterfly made improvements or if I just need my eyes checked. Thanks for doing this I plan to get into bigger prints I wonder if you'd choose the same order for large prints.

Thanks guys, this video was absolutely helpful! However, in addition to the list you have, I wanted to ask about any experiences or feedback for Fine Art America. I utilize them for shipping prints straight from my website and curious to how they match up against your top 10. Thanks again guys!

although I don't reside in the US and haven't really gotten into printing, I found some great takeaways as to how to judge the quality of prints. Thanks for that. I'm really new to printing and as such would love to learn more about pre-printing processes, various print types and sizes etc. possibly various paper types and brands? do you guys already have any videos addressing those topics? I have a couple of suggestions though for you as to shooting videos. You too were looking at each other far too often, with Chelsea looking at the computer practically all the time. You might want to put up a teleprompter with your video camera to avoid that. Also, you could have used an overhead camera setup to show the pictures. Easier to shoot and would have helped with getting rid of the light reflecting off of the pictures.

When you send them the photos, do you send them the sRGB or AdobeRGB version?

I've used Shutterfly, Nations and a local printer in Austin and here's the trouble with some of these guys. When you send your work out to a printer, you have no control over what comes back. What I've found with some local printers (Austin primarily) is that they say they'll work with you and then there are expectations that just fall through and you end up frustrated. The last prints I ordered were from Nations and they color was horrible. My problem with printing labs, and ultimately led to me buying my own printer, came a few months ago when I reached out to a printing lab in Austin and told them I was interested in doing a show soon and wanted help with papers, colors and to work with their printing manager. I was then told that I should come in and talk to them, so I did. I was then told no we don't do that but prints take 2-3 days and here's a sample of our papers you can try. I was really frustrated at that point so on the ride home I decided to finance my own printer and paper and just go for printing, framing and handling my own work for my own show. And let me tell you, trying different archival papers and making something is worth every penny I've spent on a printer, paper and inks so far. Nothing can replace that feeling of "I made this and I printed this on paper myself." The trick is to make sure your monitor is calibrated and to download your printer's color profiles and the profiles for each paper you use. Also, just get your colors right and get it right with a couple of test prints and try not to use a bunch of paper to get it right the first time. It's all up to YOU as well. Anyway, it does pay to print at home if you do your research and do it right. Good luck.

What is your opinion of Costco print service. ?