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« on: May 20, 2011, 10:48:02 PM »

...for the below photo?

I took this shot for a close friend and he submitted it to Comp Cams 35 Anniversary Poster contest and it was selected as one of the few (few is relative as they used a good number of photos to make up the large #35 on the poster, but it's still a select few population of all the motor heads in the US that submitted photos).  I want to present this photo in a B&W version I have below in an 8" to 14" size (it's 21mp at 300dpi so decent resolution).

How would you have it printed?  I have zero print experience.



Here's the poster:  Comp Cams 35th Anniversary Poster

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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2011, 10:06:03 AM »

Roy, are looking for an outside print lab or to print it yourself?  The two outside print labs I have worked with that I would recommend are MPIX.com and BayPhoto.com.  I recently just tried BayPhoto and was amazed at the quality of prints (only 8x10 and 8x12 so far, and only color prints).  I have had good success with MPIX as well and have done several large prints with them (16x20, and 24x36 -- again, only color).  I do not know of either of these two labs will do with B&W.  Of the two, I like BayPhoto a bit better.
   
Regardless of where you print this image, I would have the print mounted onto a backing board (both MPIX and BayPhoto can do this).
 
Very nice B&W conversion!
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« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2011, 11:15:26 AM »

Thanks John, I also got feedback from fm forums that bayphoto is good and that metal prints on aluminum would look great.
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