Saturday, August 11, 2007

Top 4 photobook printer services worldwide

I liked to create a magazine-like, soft cover, glossy, high quality, largely configurable printed photo album.
To find out, I tested dozens of album printing services worldwide, including every existent Dutch alternative.
Here is my choice of top 4 services:

* Myphotobook, a Germany based company, offering "regional" sites in several European languages... the link brings you to the [.co.uk] site (just change co.uk to [.nl], [.de], [.fr] etc. for other countries).
The downloadable software is extremely configurable and there will probably be no limit to your artistic imagination.
Printing quality is superior, comparable to international-magazines standards.

* Ex aequo: Albert Heijn and Kruidvat
I haven't been able to compare printing quality, but you'll find serious restrictions with regard to configuration options.

* FlickR's QOOP album printing service.
Even more configuration restrictions and less colourful printing results.

Pricing should not be a problem in your decision making process: all services roughly charge € 0,50/$0,59 per page, with a maximum of 144.

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