White House Custom Color. They are my preferred lab. I have never had a problem with them.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Paul, I am glad that you didn't experience problems with them. > In part, it is my lack of proper checking. I was very short on time, and I > just assumed that they can work with standard color profiles. How naive I > was! > > For comparison, - as far as I remember, Mpix uses color profiles and even > provide their printer profile for soft-proofing. > > Cheers, > > Igor > > > > > > Paul Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:58:45 -0700 wrote: > > Sorry to hear you had a problem, Igor. I've only had them do several 20x30s, > but they've never been a problem. But...anything I send out to a lab gets > sRGB embedded. The only time I use any other profile is if I'm doing my own > printing. > > > -p > > On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Igor PDML-StR wrote: > >> >> >> I've be seriously disappointed by Adoramapix today. >> And there might be some useful information (a warning) for anybody who >> considers using them. >> >> Well, let me tell the entire story. >> In the era of film, I've used to print at Adorama store in person, while >> living in NYC, and I had my favorite master that I was asking to print my >> photos, even if that would take an extra day because it wasn't his day. >> The way Michael was doing colors was what I wanted. >> >> Then after moving away from NYC, I've used Adoramapix a few times to order >> photos via mail to some relatives on the East cost, and some photos for >> myself. >> Fast-forward some 8-10 years. A few months ago, Adoramapix started sending >> their spam (aka UCE) to the address used for my account with them. >> That's after more than 8 years of no relations. (This IS a violation of >> the existing, albeit miserably failed anti-spam laws. But this message is >> not about that.) >> Just before July 1, I've got an e-mail from them with a special code for >> 100 free 4x6 photos. >> >> I actually needed to print something. So, I ordered them. Of course, the >> shipping is not free, and the faster you want them shipped things quicly >> pick up quite some price (that's apart from the "rush processing" if you >> want to have them printed within less then a week). >> >> I've sent photos with the embedded Adober RGB (And a few with PhotoRGB) >> color profiles. At the last moment, I've written in the comments that >> is am embedded color profile in each photo (PhotoRGB or AdobeRGB). >> A week later (when I am thinking that my order is hopefully already put in >> the mail), I am getting an e-mail message (in between 4 identical >> Adorama+AdoramaPix spam messages "Adorama + Nigel Barker | Will You Be Our >> Top Photographer?"): >> >> " I hope you understand that our lab only prints correctly images that are >> converted to SRGB only. We do not print any other color profiles." >> Virginia C. CS Agent >> >> >> Doh! The can only work with SRGB?! >> They, who do not think twice before throwing in the word "professional" >> near "photography" and "printing"?! >> >> And it took them a week to read that and to respond, and to suggest no >> options, nothing... >> >> Caveat Emptor! >> >> I just looked: Adoramapix got awful rating on ResellerRatings: >> http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Adorama_Pix >> >> I know, I suggested AdoramaPix as a printing shop few times to PDMLers. >> My sincere apologies! >> >> >> Igor >> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
