Re: OT: Commercial printer - Nations Photo Lab

2014-08-19 Thread Kenneth Waller
I'm very pleased with the work Bay Photo has done for me. Reasonable, quick and very high quality. -Original Message- From: Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com Subject: OT: Commercial printer - Nations Photo Lab Just curious if anyone has any experience using Nations Photo Lab? I'm

Re: OT: Commercial printer - Nations Photo Lab

2014-08-19 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
That's good to hear! Bay Photo is the outfit that bought the lab I used to work for in the early 1980s. Godfrey On Aug 19, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Kenneth Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: I'm very pleased with the work Bay Photo has done for me. Reasonable, quick and very high quality. --

Re: OT: Commercial printer - Nations Photo Lab

2014-08-15 Thread John
I'm pretty sure Mpix is the consumer side of the house for Millers Professional Imaging - one of the top Pro Labs in the U.S. You have to have a tax ID number to order from Millers, but anyone can use Mpix. Same quality. On 8/14/2014 5:58 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Darren, I haven't used

Re: OT: Commercial printer - Nations Photo Lab

2014-08-14 Thread Igor Roshchin
Darren, I haven't used those, but I have used MPIX in the past (a few times 5-7 years ago), and I was satisfied with them. They also have competetive pricing for the metallic prints: http://www.mpix.com/products/pricing/ 20x30: $33.99 They don't have 24x36 listed for metallic, - they might or

Re: OT: Commercial printer - Nations Photo Lab

2014-08-14 Thread Darren Addy
Thanks for that info Igor. Mpix is the digital arm of Miller's Professional Imaging in Pittsburg, KS and they were a top flight lab catering to professional photographers/studios back in the film days. The studios that I worked for used them and later when I had my own studio I used them. My

Re: OT: Commercial printer - Nations Photo Lab

2014-08-14 Thread Igor Roshchin
Darren, You probably are aware of this, but just in case: I found that the metallic paper is less forgiving with respect to the blown highlights. In addition, the color gamut for that paper is slightly smaller than that for a regular paper. So, to avoid surprises, I encourage to you preview

OT: Commercial printer - Nations Photo Lab

2014-08-12 Thread Darren Addy
Just curious if anyone has any experience using Nations Photo Lab? I'm tempted to give them at try, but on the other hand if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. They lose points for the missing apostrophe in their name, but such is the condition of our nation. AdoramaPix, which I've