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Ron Marshall
22-Sep-2005, 18:39
I would like to have a few b/w 16x20s printed from my own scans, and I am looking for recommendations for labs.

Henry Ambrose
22-Sep-2005, 21:08
www.chromatics.com (http://www.chromatics.com)
great lab offering several types of digital prints

Scott Kathe
23-Sep-2005, 07:09
I'm about to send some files to www.westcoastimaging.com for prints. I haven't used them before but the samples they sent look great and I've been very impressed with their answers to my questions.

Ed Richards
23-Sep-2005, 11:06
Any labs offer digital printing to fiber paper?

Harley Goldman
23-Sep-2005, 12:08
I have used West Coast Imaging and they are excellent. Very nice people, too.

Ron Marshall
23-Sep-2005, 14:29
Has anyone heard of VIP Photo services; here is their site:

http://www.vipphotolab.com/index.html

Their prices are good so I will send them a digital file to print an 8x10 and report back on the quality.

Jeffrey Sipress
23-Sep-2005, 15:06
http://www.colorservices.com/

Keith S. Walklet
23-Sep-2005, 17:23
Both Calypso Imaging in Santa Clara, California (www. calypsoinc.com) and West Coast Imaging (www.westcoastimaging.com) are excellent professional labs that offer preflighted (you do the digital work) preferred pricing. Each has a stable of output devices to choose from from (Lightjet 5000 at Calypso, Chromira at West Coast Imaging, both printing on Fuji Crystal Archive, and they both also offer Epson inkjet printers).

If you are not printing anything larger than 11x14, a recent entry into the digital elargement realm is Costco (www.costco.com), which uses a Fuji printer with Crystal Archive paper. Anything larger is down at a central location.

All three are set up take your files over the internet.