Dark Prints

[lukewoodford]

hey all, I recently had some images printed at Asda, I thought the quality was great apart from being a bit dark, I also heard this about photobox. Where does prints that arent a tad dark? prefereably not togsprint as they are quite expensive for 9x6 prints, ok if they are for personal use but not to sell on.

 

[lukewoodford]

Anyone? What about Jessops? I also heard they all use the same machine, is this true? By the way my monitor is calibrated.

 

[DoubleT]

ive had a bit of a nightmare lately too.

i dont know whats going on with printing companies.

i found jessops in store to be the best, so i then used jessops online, and they completely fugded my pictures, they have over sharpened them, undersaturated, they are just terrible, and they say that there is nothing wrong with them!, i sent the pictures back to them with sample of how they have come out from jessops in store ( same files) and they still think they are ok!.

ive resorted to printing them myself, much better!

these are photos for someones wedding album.

 

[POAH]

you have to send images as sRGB to places like asda or photobox for small prints. have a look at the image in a non colour managed program and tilt your monitor and see if you get a match.

hey all, I recently had some images printed at Asda, I thought the quality was great apart from being a bit dark, I also heard this about photobox. Where does prints that arent a tad dark? prefereably not togsprint as they are quite expensive for 9x6 prints, ok if they are for personal use but not to sell on.