Photo printing options: Premium Glossy Prints, Canvas Prints, Large Format Posters

From screen to print

It’s all very well having a hundred and fifty million photos on your computer, but it’s fair to say they’re probably not shown off to their full potential on there. If you’ve got the talent to take gorgeous photos you should be making the most of it by using your photos to add a sense of personality to your space. For all that everyone in the world seems to have a digital camera now, not everyone can use it. So if you’ve got it, flaunt it!

Going to Boots and getting your photos printed is an option, as is signing up to one of the many online photo print sites that have mushroomed recently. At the end of the day, though, all you’re likely to end up with is a pile of glossy photos shoved into the back of the draw. Sure, they’re off your hard-drive now, but now all they’re doing is taking up space, and they’re not getting looked at any more than they were before. Clearly it’s time to get innovative with your photo printing, and here’s some ideas for how you could do it…

Custom Printed Photo Albums

Once was a time that the concept of a photo album was nothing short of horrifying: a collection of faded polaroid snaps, with detail less obvious than grain, and an instantly accessible visual catalogue of dubious fashion choices and dreadful haircuts throughout the years. I don’t know about you, but just the sight of something like this:

still puts me right off my lunch.

But that was then and this is now. These days you can get crystal clear digital images and have them printed in a high-quality custom printed photo book, beautifully bound and ready for the coffee table. Whether it’s family pics or a full blown photography portfolio, there’s no reason why the quality afforded to high-end publishers should be denied to the rest of us. We’re all budding photographers now, and we shouldn’t have to put up with having our shots ruined by low quality printing! Online print companies (like Pulse Print UK) can take your photos and print them into high-quality presentation books with a wide range of potential finishes: from hard cover, to high-gloss interior pages and beyond. We believe that your photos are expressions of yourself and your memories, and that they should be presented as such.

Canvas Printing

In the last few years it’s becoming increasingly fashionable to get your photos made into artwork for the home or office (really, check the IKEA catalogue…). While at first people were going for large format poster printing it soon became apparent that this wasn’t always the most cost effective method of getting your photos to your walls. What we’ve seen the rise of most recently is printing onto canvas – it’s durable, it’s more cost effective for short runs, and canvas printing is generally agreed to be a classier way of presenting your photos as works of art.

Again, whether you’re a budding professional, complete with DSLR, or a snap happy archivist of your family life, canvas printing is a great way to take your photos to the next level – stop treating your photos like meaningless computer files and start using them to make your home that little more beautiful.

Canvas photo printing is a specialised service, and whatever anyone tells you there’s no one size fits all option. Just because a company can offer standard price for canvas printing, without having had a look at your artwork first, doesn’t mean that they can guarantee you the quality that you want – and there’s no point having a low quality canvas print on your wall. For a service like this, a printer should be getting sight of your artwork before they give you a price and giving you a quote based on what they see. If this isn’t the level of service you’re getting, then you could be getting ripped off on price, or you could be getting bog-standard quality. What you certainly won’t be getting is your photos treated with the respect they deserve. That’s why we don’t put a one-size fits all price on our site for this service: get in touch with one of our account managers and they’ll work with you to get a canvas printing that’s tailored to you, and only you.

T-Shirt printing

Now this is fun. Got a birthday party coming up? Hen night? Any other occasion where you might want to get an embarrassing photo of a friend emblazoned across a bunch of t-shirts for the world to see? Custom t-shirt printing is your friend…

There are limits to how complex a photo can be in order for it to be printed onto a t-shirt, and as usual you can expect that greater complexity will lead to a higher price, but it’s definitely worth looking into if you’re planning a big event or celebration, as custom printed t-shirts both make the event itself that bit more special and serve as a memento down the line (plus, you can never have enough bed t-shirts!) This is another service that a service-oriented printer will put the time and effort into – customers who get back dodgy looking printed t-shirts, poorly cut from low quality fabric, tend not to be the most satisfied people in the world. As with canvas printing, a good printer will keep in touch throughout the ordering process and maintain that contact throughout the print and delivery processes as well. Where presentation and durability is key, value can’t be defined by price alone – so be wary of just going with the cheapest t-shirt printing service you can find, because you’ll only get what you pay for.