Your photos printed on normal paper, canvas, clothing, calendars or gift items
20 free prints. High post, packaging, admin and sometimes 'grouping' fees on prints, which mkes overall costs very expensive, especially for small orders.
Usually 40 free prints when you register, plus £10 off a photobook. Usual range of photo products. Can be collected from a Jessops store to avoid post costs.
Part of the Dixons group. 25 free prints on registration. 
Printing on all sorts of things and good range of sizes. At least 30 free prints when you first sign up - sometimes more (see offers). 
Also provide service for Truprint. 20 free prints on signup. Limited range of sizes: see text,
In a rush?
No time to compare? For standard photos, we think that Photobox offers the best all-round deal, with a good range of print shapes and sizes, fair charges for post and extremely quick service.
Whether you want excellent quality traditional prints or your favourite photos on something more unusual, such as canvas, mugs, calendars or even a baby's bib, glance through this page and you will find someone who will do it for you. It is easy, not expensive, and quicker than you might think. Just click on the company name below or on the company logo in their box on the right to go straight to their web site.
For traditional printing on photo paper, posters and gift items, there is an excellent choice. In most cases you can send plenty of photos, over the internet, to the printer's web site. Once you have sent them you can allow other people to see them too. You, and the other people you allow, can order any combination of prints and gift items from the photos you have uploaded.
As well as photos in a huge range of sizes, you can get photos printed on mugs, calendars, mouse mats, coasters and place mats, jigsaw puzzles, toys such as teddy bears and various items of clothing. Photobooks are becoming increasingly popular, too. These can be hard-backed or soft-backed. You choose a selection of photos and lay them out, on your computer, into pages of pictures of various sizes. You can add captions if you want. This is ideal for weddings, holidays and other special occasions.
| Comparison of standard prices. There may be offers. Post costs can make a huge difference - see next table |
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| 6x4 print | 7x5 print | 10x8 print | Mug (from) |
16x12 canvas print | Mouse mat | Min Post etc | |
| Foto | 5p | 13p | £0.35 | £5.59 | £31.00 | £5.59 | £2.34 |
| myPix | 7p | 15p | 50p | £6.99 | £31.99 | £5.99 | £3.60 |
| Photobox | 11p | 20p | £1.27 | £7.99 | £49.99 | £6.99 | £1.50 |
| Snapfish Truprint |
10p | 19p | £1.20 | £7.99 | n/a (£49.99 16"x20") |
£6.99 | £0.99 |
| These are just examples for small quantities. Prices are cheaper for lager quantities. Also, be sure to work out the total cost including post. Foto's prints look cheap, but they work out the most expensive for many print combinations if you add huge postage and 'admin' fees. | |||||||
There are lots of similarities between the products offered by the photo printing companies and the pricing of the main ones is fairly similar too, but there are also some important differences. Be sure to read the paragraphs below about print sizes and printing 6"x4" photos.
Most companies have special deals from time to time. Deals often include 'buy one get one free' and 'buy two get a third free' on photobooks and gift items as well as straightforward percentage discounts. Outside the deals, the table shows the typical print prices for small quantities - do check before you confirm your order in case they have changed recently.
Pay in advance and save. Most of the companies have heavily discounted prices if you pay for lots of prints. Even if you do not want hundreds in one go, you can buy 'print credits' which give you big discounts for paying in advance and then you can use up the credits over a period of time as you need prints. You will still have to pay postage each time you draw from your credit. Only Snapfish, myPix and Truprint offer print credits on 7" x 5" prints. Snapfish, myPix, Truprint and Photobox all sell credits on the smaller size. Photobox prices come down to 4p per print if you pay for 600 6" x 4" prints in advance.
Print sizes. If you want 6" x 4" (15cm x 10cm), 7" x 5" (12.5cm x 17.5cm), 8" x 10" (20.3cm x 25.4 cm), all of the companies in the list will be able to help. However, these plus the small 5.3" x 4" and passport photos are the only sizes that Truprint and Snapfish print. The basic sizes plus 9"x6" and three poster sizes are the only choices from Jessops. Foto, Photobox and myPix all print standard uncropped 7.5" x 5" from a 3:2 format source, such as an SLR camera but Jessops Jpics, Snapfish and Truprint do not. Foto and myPix print a slightly larger range, but only standard shapes. So if you want less common sizes, including square prints and panoramas, you have only Photobox to choose from.
6" x 4" prints from digital cameras. Most compact digital cameras take photos that are not the right shape to fit on a 6" x 4" (15cm x 10cm) photo. The shape of these digital prints is known as the 3:4 format. Foto, Photobox and myPix can print the photo 6" x 4.5" (15cm x 13.3cm) to cope with this. Snapfish and Truprint will print it slightly smaller, 5.3" x 4" (13.5cm x 10cm). These smaller prints will not fit very well into a 6" x 4" (15cm x 10cm) frame. Jessops will crop or trim a 3:4 format photo to fit their 6" x 4" paper. You might be happier with the full-size uncropped 6" x 4.5" prints from Foto, Photobox and myPix if your camera takes 3:4 format pictures.
| Example UK postage costs on normal size photo prints | ||||||||
| Number | 10 | 30 | 50 | 80 | 100 | 200 | 250 | Max print size at this cost |
| Foto* | £2.38 | £2.88 | £2.88 | £4.38 | £4.88 | £6.88 | £6.88 | 6"x6" |
| myPix | £3.60 | £3.60 | £5.20 | £5.20 | £5.20 | £6.60 | £6.60 | 12"x8" |
| Photobox | £1.49 | £3.99 | £4.99 | £5.99 | £7.99 | £7.99 | £7.99 | 15"x10" |
| Truprint Snapfish |
£0.99 | £0.99 | £0.99 | £1.49 | £1.49 | £1.49 | £1.49 | 10"x8" |
| * Up to 6"x4" only. With Foto, slightly bigger prints count as 3 photos for post purposes. Anything over 6"x8.5" counts as 5 photos. So, for example, post & admin costs for 20 7"x5" prints are a huge £4.73. | ||||||||
Postage on prints. You need to be careful to take into account the postage cost when comparing prices. The second table compares postage prices on photo prints. Be aware that the Foto cost is for photos up to 6"x6" only. Anything bigger and they will post only a third or a fifth of the number for the cost quoted (see footnote to the table).
Postage on gifts. The charge made by Snapfish and Truprint for postage on most gifts (other than canvas prints and photobooks, which are more) is £1.99 for the first item but extra for each additional item. Foto's post on gifts starts at £2.79. Photobox charge by weight, as they do for photo prints. It starts getting expensive if the parcel is over 2Kg, when the cost is £6.99.