I need to get some photos printed this weekend. Mainly 5x7s and a couple of 8x10s.
Out of BigW, KMart, Officeworks and Harvey Norman, which would you rate as having the better quality photos? Or are they all relatively the same?
If there are other storefronts you would recommend in the Sydney area, please do.
I am excluding online companies at this time as I need them as quick as possible.
Thanks in advance.
Quality is depend on the person who took the pic. However most of those use fujifilmphotos
Do you need to pick them up this weekend? If you do then Officeworks can do it and the others may say they can, but in the past it's been a hit and miss. HN have never been able to print within 48 hrs for me. at OW I have walked in in the afternoon and started printing within 15 minutes as it was not busy, but I have also walked in at 6PM on a weekday and given up as there were 4 people waiting for the machine so if you do not want to wait then go before lunch and if it's too busy get lunch and try again.
which would you rate as having the better quality photos?
Much of a muchness. Once you hand over the files to be printed, the main variables are the standard of the machine maintenance/calibration (plenty of things to skip or defer) and the minilab operator's "give a (profanity)" value.
Back when I got some prints done, Officeworks and Harveynorman used the same "Fujifilm" service and printing equipment.
You can tell this by the store's Apps, and then by looking at the "international" Fujifilm App. They all look like identical clones of each other just with different logos in the App.
I think Big W and Kmart use something else, I can't remember exactly but I think Big W used Kodak at the time.
HN when they do specials.
And yeah I rememeber that allegeedly Fujifilm have the best machines.
Watch One Hour Photo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hour_Photo
It's not the machine, it's how they're run.
Same store morning & afternoon looks different.
That said, Officeworks used a digital kodak one what was a step shit than others.
Got a whole bunch done at ow and hn and imo quality was about same. Did 4x6, 8x10s and a few a2 equiv