There's a war waging in the world of digital photo printing. There are the do-it-yourselfers who insist that buying a photo printer and printing your pics at home is the way to go. Then there are the online photo service fans who swear that ordering prints from the Web is the only way to do it. Who's right and who's wrong? Believe it or not, paying an online service to print your digital photos may actually be more convenient and more cost effective than doing it yourself.
First, you have to look at the price factor. There are more than a few people who assume that printing at home is cheaper. This isn't necessarily the case. At websites like SnapFish.com you can get prints for 9 cents each. According to a recent article by Lifehacker.com, printing your photos at home costs about 28 cents a print when you consider the cost of ink, the paper and the printer. That home-printing expense is more than twice as much as what SnapFish charges to print your photos for you.
There's also the quality myth. Many have said that online photo printing services don't offer the quality that the higher-end home photo printers do. This is another falsehood. In fact, the quality offered by many of the online photo printing services can match (or even beat) that of the quality of store-printed photos.
What many consumers have learned is that the key to great online photo printing is finding a website that offers quality prints along with great prices. Snapfish is a photo printing service that is rated highly among consumers and by service review websites, such as Star Reviews. With a recent price drop to just 9 cents per print and offering the first 20 prints free, they've proven to be leading the pack in the competitive pricing arena.