I was curious as to who uses who to do your print work?

I do most of mine online with Mpix Prices are good and product is good never tried to print nudes with them though.

I go to a loca repo-studio. They print on linen, high glossy and everything imaginable. Even extreme oversize for a reasonable price.

They're fast too. Never tried online though...

i used to print everything myself (black and white) but when i don't, i use a custom printer named David Wang on lexington avenue here in nyc.  that's for regular gelatin and platinum prints.

i print a lot of my work with an epson 2200 inkjet printer using rag paper for the black and white work. i'm playing around with different paper for color. not totally in love with anything yet. my custom color guy left ny because the market was dying so i've been printing all of my color work on the epson. everyone loves it and the inks have a longer archival life than many color photo papers.

I use a local pro lab here in San Diego. I get great prices for my bulk sports work, wide variety of paper and sizes, and they now have an online feature to send the work in so I only have to make one trip now to pick up.

I do on an Epson 4000.

When I give disks to models, I always offer that if they want to get reprints, please call me and I'll profile the image for them with profiles from Dry Creek.  (So far, most have said they get prints at WalMart, which is the same print equip as anyplace else...and Dry Creek has profiles for all the Fuji Frontiers at Wal Mart.)  After all the work I put into minute color tweaks, I'd HATE to see images done badly.

I use michiganphoto.com.  AFAIK, they have no problems printing nudes.  I use them for 8x10's and larger.

Paul

self-printing with an Epson 4000 and an Epson 7600 for color.  Slowing researching b&w with inkjets.  Otherwise, I do Albumen printing for b&W.

It depends what I'm printing. Everyday reprints and proofs for models, PhotoTrends at Pearlridge. The owner used to be with a company called Disk Maker in downtown Honolulu. When she opened her own business, a bunch of us that worked well with her followed. Strictly minilab type stuff, but I try to give her as much of my business as I can.

Large prints, usually Hawaii Digital.

Specialty prints, like linen, usually Hawaii Pacific Photo.

Large printing jobs, I have a contact in Indonesia. Mostly for calendars or posters.

Cibachromes and large specialty prints, I have a contact in Montreal, BC, Canada.

Get to know the guy at your local Frontier lab. (or girl)  Find out when they work.  It's a pain but the small places (some wal marts, some Ritz, etc) can take extra time for you because you take extra time with them.  It is a trade of your time instead of your money.


(there is an obvious limit to the quality you can squeeze out of these places)

I get my 9x12s at www.adorama.com

get yourself either an Epson 1800 or 2400 or a Cannon i9900 both (3) are 13" wide carrages. learn how to .icc profile the hardware (international color consortium), youll produce exactly what you expect, youll only need to send out work that needs a lot of copies produced.

The epson is better ink/paperwise but the cannon has a better print engine. they both print incredibly accurate. i use ilford light pearl pretty exclusively for people and gloss epson for auto's and other shiny items.

a note to anyone who 'profiles' before the lab gets the image file may be stating what there doing improperly. it goes like this;
your equipment is all calibrated and you adjust the image accordingly, then you send that out, (printlab) or to your own printer. the imaging software you are using along with the print engine (software) can adjust the image per the .icc profile relative to that specific piece of hardware and ink/paper combination that you allready went through the motions of calibrating (providing you have done it properly). the outsourced lab itself impliments its own calibration per the paper specs its printing (developing).

90% in-house(traditional & digital prints), the other 10% fiber base printing done by a small lab in Detroit.

I use WHCC.com (White House Custom Color). Great work, quickly.
They give concise and explicit instructions for their workflow requirements. Never had a problem. They even do free test prints to make sure your output is what you need.

I print all my personel stuff myself which allows me to give additional prints to the crew.

since im a graphic designer....i do my own printing and im pretty much all digital, i print my large stuff on my Epson 1280 and my smaller stuff on my Epson C60 and my Epson 1280 does up to 13 x 19 and 13 x 44 panaramas...but if it were to be larger i would send it off to a printer with a larger/wider format printer.

I also use WHCC (White House Custom Color) for my prints.  I'm a new client there but so far have been very happy.

They cater to pros, have excellent customer service, and have a variety of paper and finish options.

I did all my old b/w stuff myself, but I sometimes used La Baak studios in Grand Rapids, MI. They always did a stellar job and had very reasonable rates.

For digital, I just got a new Canon Pixma and I'm really amazed at the quality. I used to use an Epson Stylus Photo that cost much more and didn't do half the job the Canon does.

For prints designated for show or sale: Custom lab in NY using a  Durst Epsilon - www.stuartphotoservice.com

For herky jerky stuff....mpix.com