Recently I saw that HP’s photo service, Snapfish, offers prints for just 9¢. What a deal, huh? I looked into signing up for an account and it said that my first 20 photos were free, and then after that, each 4 x 6 inch print would be 9¢. That got me wondering what other services charged, and which ones you all use. I set out to find all of the basic pricing from the major services and this is what I found:
| Service | Size | Price |
| Snapfish | 4×6 | 9¢ |
| Wal-Mart | 4×6 (home delivery) | 9¢ |
| Shutterfly | 4×6 | 12¢ |
| Kodak Gallery | 4×6 | 15¢ |
| Walgreens | 4×6 | 19¢ |
From the looks of it, Wal-Mart and Snapfish are the cheapest route to take if would like your digital photos printed. It’s amazing how affordable photo printing has become and how convenient it is to have them printed. There’s no more dropping off rolls of film at the store and going back later to pick them up, you just upload your photos to one of these services and wait for them to be delivered to your doorstep.
So which service do you use to print your digital photos?
I use Winkflash. They normally have 12¢ prints but now they’re having a special with 6¢ prints. Delivery is something like 99¢ usually and the package arrives in like 3 days. I’m very happy with their service.
I used both Walmart and Walgrees in the past. My wife and I didn’t care for the quality of the prints from Walmart.
I used to use Yahoo! photos, then switched to SnapFish when it closed down due to Flickr. I got some 50 photos free (20 from SnapFish and around 30 from Yahoo! to SnapFish migration)
I use Kodak (formerly ophoto). I’m more concerned about quality – and I’ve had them print out 16×20 pictures that look stunning. 8×10 photos I’ve had done from Shutterfly – colors didn’t match and the resolution was not that good – and this was from the same file that I sent to Kodak (for an 8×10).
I don’t know what the size limits are for other services, but Kodak will let you upload just about any file size. I’ve sent a 30MB file to them before.
The only place I’ve had pictures printed was at Walmart so I’ve never had anything to compare them to. I’ll have to try another service in the future and see if I notice a difference in quality.
Ahhh yes… those who switched to a different service after Yahoo closed down got some pretty good deals!
Hadn’t heard of Winkflash before! I’ll have to go check it out…