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Best UK service for on-demand print and product fulfilment?

posted 11 years ago by Prelude-in-C-maj
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I'm in the UK, have a website for my photographic images, and I'm looking around for a service that can fulfill customer orders of prints, canvas prints, maybe even other products using my images.

Does anyone use a service like this in the UK, and do you have recommendations?

I've looked into Fotomoto, but saw that they are US based and therefore some of the shipping costs and times to my UK customers would be a little off-putting even though Fotomoto now have a Europe-based printer added to their facilities.

I also looked into Cafepress but saw some bad customer reviews about the service as experienced by the purchaser.

What I like about Fotomoto is there is just a 15% fee taken from every sale but no annual or monthly additional fees or expensive subscriptions.

I know about Smugmug but it is too expensive to sign up for at this time.

Any UK people use Fotomoto? Anything similar to suggest?

[–] rowan_morrison 11 years ago

I don't know any others apart from the ones you already mentioned. This is a very specialistservice that not many photographers would be keen on since it takes away their creative control. Whenever someone orders prints from me, I always vet the prints myself first before sending them on.

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[–] Prelude-in-C-maj 11 years ago

Thanks for the reply; it's true that personal quality control is sacrificed with these services, although that's kind of part of what asking around for recs might help me with. I've read occasional mentions online about some of these companies, in which photographers were saying they had ordered test prints and been satisfied to go ahead and trust them, and some of these guys seemed to be meticulous. Only issue was they were talking about US based services.

But I appreciate what you're saying, it's a lot of trust and control given away when you can't inspect what the customer received. Just wondered if anyone in the UK had found any service's standards to be consistently suitable.