What’s Your Preference?

amy_bb · #1 (**permalink**) 11-21-2011, 11:27 AM

Hi all,

Before I got into this photo hobby/part-time business thing I ordered my Christmas cards through the standard cheapy Snapfish/Vista Prints sites and got the standard, weird colors, poor resolution prints and I was fine with that.

For my sports photo business I use Zenfolio and have all my customer's prints processed through mPix. I have never ordered anything but prints from them but I have been pleased with the prints that my customers have received.

I have designed a collage style Christmas Card this year w/my photos and some additional graphics and text. I created it as a 5x7 Photoshop Document and saved the collage as a .jpg.

For you portrait pros out there, who do you send your work to when the client has ordered 5x7 (or other sized) notecards from your work? I see I can do this through mPix (and about 300 other sites) but I was wondering how their quality was when printed on cardstock.

Even though I do not do portraits as part of my business (yet), I do feel that since I am now known as "amy_bb---the lady who does all of those sports photos", each time I distribute anything, even a greeting card, I want it to be top notch and represent the kind of work I can do and the print quality the customers can expect.

Any recommendations appreciated!