| Kodak Gallery - Digital Print Review 2010 |
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Ease of Use - Ordering Process:  Kodak Gallery has one of the most organized and easy-to-use websites we've ever seen. Uploading pictures and ordering prints is like a pleasant treat. Even a computer novice should be able to walk through the ordering process without any problems. |
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Quality of Prints:
 To get a better feel of the quality of their prints, we sent the same set of digital photos to all of the online digital photo processors and developers - that we reviewed. Kodak Gallery's prints; on a whole - turned out slightly sharper than the original photos we sent (which is good). Below is our analysis on the Kodak Gallery prints: Close-up Photos: The Kodak prints that we received - had some minor cropping done to it. The details were very crisp and the print was sharper than the original. Due to this; the colors inside the picture was slightly different. The overall look and feel after seeing the phone was indeed pleasing! Scenic & Background Photos: Even in this print - although it offers clean and crisp details; it is slightly sharper than the original photo; which causes some variation in color. For a regular 4x6 photo print, it would not make any differece - so we don't think it even matters for most of the customers. |
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Pricing:
Although it is not the least expensive service we've seen and reviewed, Kodak Gallery's per-print photo printing prices are still cheaper when compared to some other photo printing service providers we've seen. |
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Shipping Costs:
To ship nine 4 x 6 inch prints, Kodak Gallery charged us $1.79. The actual postage for USPS First Class mail was $0.83. This means that Kodak Gallery charged us $0.96 - towards their packaging and handling costs. Our prints arrived in a lightweight cardboard sleeve, wrapped inside another lightweight cardboard envelope - fair enough! |
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Turn Around Time:
For each service provider that we reviewed; we gave them one to four days to ship us our finished prints in order to receive a high score in this category. Kodak Gallery positively met our requirements. |
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Other Services:
Kodak Gallery offers several other services like - printing your photos on T-shirts, sweatshirts, calendars, mugs and more. They also offer pre-loaded digital photo frames, which is not being offered by any other photo printing service providers out there! |
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Summary:
Kodak Gallery certainly has a solid brand name recognition and a reputation - for quality processing and printing photo products. We would certainly recommend Kodak Gallery for anyone who wants to go with the best name in the online photo services industry. The only area where Kodak would rank # 2 is the per-print prices. |
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A comprehensive list of features and a side-by-side comparison on every digital online photo printing and sharing service provider is available on our "Compare Services" Page. |
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