Thumbs up for Shutterfly

Published 5/19/05

I just received my 140+ photos back from Shutterfly, along with a (free) note card; a (free) 11×14 print is on its way.

For the record: great quality, great service, and damned fast.

Most of the photos were high-res images, but there were a few in which I only had a small JPEG to work with. (Shutterfly even gave me a warning that a 4×6 print wasn’t recommended.) Despite that, even the low-res prints came out great.

I had been printing photos myself on a nice, if a bit old, Epson photo printer. But worrying about ink levels, dealing with bad prints, and having to buy everything was a hassle. Figuring just the cost of media told me that each 5×7 cost about 50 cents; a 4×6 ran about 33 cents. And that’s not counting my time and gas running to Staples, fighting with clogged ink jets, etc.

Shutterfly charges 29 cents for a 4×6, less if you buy in bulk. Further, if someone wants a copy of one, we can point ‘em to the Web site. The choice was obvious.

The Fray

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Dusty says:

Great article on archiving digital photos (USA Today, 5/20). You are following about the same route that I seem to be travelling and your research has helped me speed up the process. The panic I felt when I thought I had lost a disk of pictures was something I don’t want to go through again, even though I know I will for reasons which may not yet exist. I have you bookmarked. Thanks.

May 22nd, 2005 at 7:12 PM

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