{"id":228,"date":"2006-04-19T16:27:49","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T20:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2007-02-07T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T02:42:44","slug":"rated-online-photo-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"RATED: ONLINE PHOTO LABS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve been thinking about trying an online photo lab. It sounds simple, send your files over the internet and the photos arrive in the mail a few days later. But how good is the quality? What about cost? How long does it take? How good are the poster prints?<\/p>\n<p><em>to continue, use the page links to the right<\/em><br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><em>Pop Photo<\/em>  to the rescue with another of their fine comparison articles, &#8220;Click to Print&#8221;,  in the May 2006 issue (pp. 75-79). They sent photo files to 10 online labs and rated them in six categories: Print Quality, Price, Ease of Use, Turnaround Time, Storage Policy, and Poster Prints (quality). Each lab was given from 1 to 6 stars (6 being best) in each category. I&#8217;ve summarized the results in the following graphic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Online Labs Rated\" title=\"Online Labs Rated\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/onlinelab_ratings_wc5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are additional comments in the article about each lab. Do you want to create a photobook, make U.S. postage stamps with your own photos on them, or put your photos on specialty items? How easy or difficult are the sites to navigate? Does a site excel in some unique way? The article will tell all this and more. If you want to try an online photo lab, this article article is well worth reading.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!-- google_ad_client = \"pub-9501446042367893\"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; google_ad_format = \"468x60_as\"; google_ad_type = \"text_image\"; \/\/2006-11-26: blog.jimdoty.com google_ad_channel = \"8335838873\"; \/\/--><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> <\/script><\/p>\n<p>***   ***   ***<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve been thinking about trying an online photo lab. It sounds simple, send your files over the internet and the photos arrive in the mail a few days later. But how good is the quality? What about cost? How long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=228\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}