Online Digital Photo Printing

Online digital photo printing is one of the popular options available for converting your image files to a printed photo. What we will examine is what are all your options for printing photographs, and which one is the best for you?

You can use any of numerous popular current electronic methods to view and share your photographs.

Some of the most heavily used are: e-mail, your ISP's photo-sharing features, and popular website services.

In addition, many of the better online digital photo printing services also provide photo-sharing features, at no additional cost.

However, most people do prefer to print at least some of their photographs. Therefore, here are your options:

• Print your pictures on your own dedicated photo printer (keep an inventory of ink on hand)

• If you don't have your own dedicated printer, use your own multi-purpose color printer

• Have your photographs printed at a local facility such as a camera store or a chain store such as Costco, Wal-Mart, or Walgreens.

• For the highest quality, use a professional photo lab

• Use an online digital photo printing service.

I've got some good news and some bad news for you. There are thousands of online digital photo printing businesses that will process your digital files and mail you back the completed prints.

That's the good news. And... that's the bad news. Pretty clear, huh? Let me explain.

If you were to search on the internet for online digital photo printing (or almost any variation on that), you would generate more links than you would have time to investigate.

Therefore, what do you do? How do you make some kind of intelligent decision?

I went through a version of the above exercise. Therefore, my recommendation is to look for the following things when starting any search:

• Low prices and high quality (yes, they can coexist)

• A customer service department that is reachable at least through email (human contact is becoming such a rarity)

• Offers ability to optimize/color correct individual images, to produce the best possible photo print

• Offers numerous product lines which can be customized with your photographs (bags, gift items, clothing, photo albums, pet products, playing cards, puzzles, etc.)

• A web site that is easy to navigate and find questions and answers on how to do anything you want

• Fast turn-around time (and you define "fast")

• The ability to upload your files to their site easily and quickly

• The ability to share your photos with friends and relatives, via their site

• A rock-solid quality guarantee. The online digital photo printing business should not only redo or refund your money on any problem order; but should even pay for you to send back the unsatisfactory merchandise. (After all, you paid to have it shipped to you in the first place, right?)

Many online digital photo printing businesses have a free trial offer so you can examine the quality for yourself. For obvious reasons, take advantage of their offer. Once you find an online digital photo printer that meets your criteria, stick with them.

Step #1	Step #2	Step #3	Step #4	Step #5
Handling Overflow	Organizing Photos	Viewing Photos	Photo Prints	Online Printing
Step #6	Step #7	Step #8	Step #9	Step #10
Printing at Home	Preserving Your Prints	Storage	Sharing Photos	Additional Uses