| One Test Print - Excellent! | by: dpm39560 |
quality:  | on: 02-17-2008 |
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| I signed up for their service about a month ago. I've
uploaded about 1,000 photos since then, and I ordered
ONE 11x14 print to test their service and quality. The
print arrived in a tube and the quality was as good as
I've seen anywhere. It took less than a week for the
photo to arrive.
I particularly like their ability - available in their
very reasonable premium account and in a two-week free
trial - to set your own prices for prints for pictures.
You can take hundreds of pictures of an event, post
them online, set your prices, then send everyone at the
event a link to the album you just posted. If they
order pix (at the prices you set), Fotki processes the
payment, prints and sends the photos, and sends you the
difference (your price minus your cost).
The premium account ($30/yr as of Feb 08) also gives
you unlimited online storage and the ability to embed
photos on their server into your website, blog, or HTML
email, AND the ability to co-brand their album pages
and embed them right in your own website.
Not bad at all.
Check out dpm39560.fotki.com for some sample pix. |
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| The buck stops here | by: Fotobit |
| quality: | on: 09-16-2006 |
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| I've been fotki user for several years and ordered
variety of prints 4x6, 4x5s to 24x36 posters.
same user name - feel free to browse my galleries:)
Current deal:
4x6 $0.09 !
24x36 = $12.00 !!!
Need I saw more? probably not, but I will, anyway :)
Delivery times have always ben great, and I never had
any problem with any order.
For non-pros the price vs quality is absolutely ideal.
You can't get this quality from home printer (I don't
care which one you got), and print-at-home route is
simply not good for the budget. On the web - well, try
finding anything more convenient and cheaper, when you
do, drop me a note.
For professional photographer working with color -
well, if you know what you are doing in the days of
digital, like color proof your prints, convert them to
the right profile, etc. - you should be fine in 95% of
cases. Print profile is similar to ezprints.icc
profile, which is a fair standard. Well, my local pro
lab has a somewhat better printer, but the price is x5
times more, so most of the time it's simply not worth
it. This may obviously cut into your profit margin as
well, so unless it's for the art gallery, I'd stick
with a budget solution, it's very good.
Whoever was complaining about the site being slow -
that's not fair or particularly correct, I beleive.
Over time there could have been one-two hiccups caused
by changing website, but that's definitely not a reason
to blast the site and the service. And if one is on 56k
dial-up - any digital photography via web is a sloooow
process, nothing to do with the site. The server is
FAST.
Fotki offers more, the interface and overall design is
better than anything out there and the user community
is fun to deal with.
One minor thing in regards to printing, starting from
the last year or so there are no square print options,
if you are into a square photo format. This is easily
bypassed by ordering larger size uncropped, e.g 10x10
will fit into 10x15. Can't complain way too much about
that, the prices dropped even further when that
happened. |
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| very easy to use | by: clicker_slr |
| quality: n/a | on: 12-14-2005 |
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| ok I am excited with this site very easy to use and
cool all give it a shot. anyone has experience with
their printing quality? |
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| cool for sharing and community | by: clicker_slr |
| quality: n/a | on: 12-14-2005 |
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| really good for community sharing and stuff like that.
I havent tried printing yet I will soon and let you all
know.
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| easy to use good functions and prints | by: jackie |
| quality: | on: 08-10-2005 |
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| not much to say just know that if you plan to use fotki
that it is rick in features and very easy to use i have
not printed much but from what i have the quality was
very good i printed a few 4X6 photos from my vacation I
am not an expert but for an amateur like me it was good
and the price and service were great. |
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| good features - not so good web site | by: plaboman |
quality:  | on: 08-10-2005 |
service:  | contact reviewer
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| fotki has many features and I like and would like to
use many of them. I used it for a while now and also
printed photos on it the quality was just fine and I
thought it was good for day to day photos - I would not
print my high quality ones or posters here. the real
problem i had was the sometimes the site was just slow
which was frustrating and a few times I found myself
almost just closing the window and moving to another
service. hope that will get better. |
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