Online Photo Printing Service space in India is heating up with lots of websites offering the service. All of them claim to provide quality prints with low prices lets see who wins the customer base in the long run. Some of these sites also offer sharing with friends and family but i believe their primary business model is based on printing. I will try to review some of the websites i came across offering the digital photo printing service for Indians.
SnapGalaxy is a digital photo printing service based in Vadodara. The site interface is clean and simple. You can order prints to USA and India. You can also send personalized gifts like cards, mugs, DVDs, frames etc.They give you 10 free prints for try out and 20 prints for referrals. Unlimited storage of the photos with a personal page where you can show your photos.
itasveer is a digital photo printing and sharing website based in Delhi (I assume becoz there is no company address on the website) founded by four IIT Delhi graduates. The site design is pretty cool, simple and colorful. It has a nice feature called doodlepad where you can design T Shirts and Mugs with your photos by adding text and clipart and then order those. You can register here and upload your photos and share with the world or order prints. Delivery is all over to India. They had a deal with Microsoft that will enable Windows Vista users to order prints from windows explorer with out opening a browser. The main drawback i suppose is the size of the image allowed to upload, they say that maximum size of the image should be less than 4MB, but if you want good quality images for large prints you need more size, i take normally photos of 5MB (not 6MB) size with my digital camera. They increased the limit to 7MB.
Picsquare is a photo sharing and printing website based in bangalore. The website has clean and simple interface, but the welcome text looks ugly may be change of font would be better. You can create an account with them and start uploading your photos, They provide unlimited storage and you can order photos from your account, payment is through a payment gateway (i havent checked which one they r using)Apart from photo printing it offers products like Calender, T-Shirts and Greeting cards.
Merasnap is another digital photo printing service availabe, it is the product of Knowledgeworkz Consulting, Bangalore. Website has a clean and simple interface with colorful graphics. You can order prints with them after registering with the site. Unlike other site merasnap allow you to store photos on their servers for 120 days after that they will be deleted. They will deliver to all over India.
Rangeela Photos is another digital photo printing service based in Maryland, USA. This site mainly targets the NRI’s, who send photos to their loved ones in India. The site also provides US delivery also. Site design looks good but it can be improved a bit. It offers unlimited storage of photos and you get 10 free prints when you first sign up for this service.
Phtomasti.com is another digital photo printing serivce based Bangalore. The website design looks ok, the colors are not very well optimized. They deliver to all over India. There are some discount coupons available on the site. They have to work hard in improving the site and adding some useful information to compete with other players in this business.
All these sites offer almost the same price around Rs4.5/- per 4×6 print, so price is not going to be the competition between them. What matters in deciding the best service in customers point of vies is the credibility, customer support, site design, uploading tools, storage space and extras like free web page, ability to personalize with gifts.
After seeing all these sites i feel itasveer ranks top among these sites after that SnapGalaxy and Picsquare, MeraSnap also has the potential to compete with others.
Did i miss out something, post in the comments
On line printing service in india
thanks for the info
out of all mentioned above – picsquare prices are cheaper. its 3Rs/print.
@bala
Rs 3/- is offer until April 30th and the normal price is Rs 4.5/-
Let me first thank you for such clearly informative, non-biased blogs.
Out of all above, i vote for snapgalaxy – excellent prints, there is no question about it. i like the way they have designed the whole website – it’s cool. check it out.
i’m obsessed with it now.. i logged into it atleast once a day to see gallery – amazing pictures.
@ M Arora
thanx for the comments
Any of you guys has tried out the printing? if so how was the clarity?
Benedict I didnt try any of this yet.
If someone had experienced please let us know.. I’m gonna print some photos in near future using anyone of this service…
Hi
Thanks for the nice review Ram :). Incidentally, we increased our upload limit last week only, we’ve introduced poster sized prints at itasveer, and it warranted an increase. So the new upload limit is 7MB per photo. We usually go by the print size for upload limits. For eg. a 6MB photo wouldn’t have any extra detail than a 1MB or even less sized photo for a regular 4×6 print. Are we confusing MB (Megabytes) with MP (megapixels) here?? Because very few camera in my opinion make jpg’s as big as 6 MB. An 8 megapixel image from my camera is usually 3.5 MB or so.
@Animesh Thanks for the comments,
I clearly mentioned in the post that size is for large prints.
i mean MB not mega pixels, photos taken with my new camera are around 5MB (not 6MB i corrected this) at 3648×2736 resolution.
Hey guys, I tried the service at http://www.printcamp.com and had a great experience. I ordered a photo calendar and a photo coffee mug as a gift. I have ordered a second time after that and again had a similar experience. Not only did the products arrive on time, but they were of excellent quality. As such, I am surprised by the experience and can only attribute it to the fact “things” will happen at times and yours was an anomaly.
I found the site easy to understand and navigate. I am glad that I ordered and really found the experience delightful and loved the convenience. However, I wish that they were offering more products as I am specifically looking for printed photo albums and large poster size prints. Anyway, I am think that this is a good service, definitely convenient, worth using and glad to be a happy user.
So you may try these service also.
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zoom.in is wonderfull online printing service try it
HP has recently launched a website for uploading photo (unlimited space), sharing & printing in India. the website is http://www.snapfish.co.in
I have tried http://www.zoomin.com and its really good. The pages are simple and clean and the prints were really good. I mean no compromizes in the quality at all. But yes they are a little more expensive at 4 bucks for 4×6 prints & 25 bucks shipping. But that said … no hidden costs.
Also No fake offers… I’ve seen some of these sites where you upload all your pics to their site and then they will charge you higher prices later.
I tried Zoomin which was really good.
Also, now Snapfish is in India, however, I found the interface very unfriendly.
i have already tried zoom.in and snapfish. both are exellent and satisfactory.
Great Blog Ram !
Sendmyfoto.com is the current price leader of the Photo printing industry. No Price Gimmicks. One straight low price and low cost delivery too !
The low price is not just on 4X6 prints, but on prints of all other sizes too !
has integrated with Flickr, Picasa and Facebook. It also allows you to srore,share and edit photos online. You also can print albums shared by others.
Sendmyfoto delivers quickly and the print quality is really great. Check out Sendmyfoto.com today.
We have one more site giving same services http://www.snapfish.in It is offering 4×6″ Prints for Rs. 2.95 small poster 11×14″ Rs. 99.00 Collage Posters 11×14″ Rs. 99.00 Key ring (rectangular) Rs. 99.00
Key ring (round) Rs. 99.00M Mug – Standard RH Rs. 195.00
Mug – Standard LH Rs. 195.00
Mug – Standard Mug Full Image Rs. 195.00
T-shirt Rs. 399.00
Mouse pad Rs. 149.00 Thanks Ravi Nandan
Was recommended by a friend. Dont like the payment gateway. Have tried to make a payment via debit card on 5 different days, but does not go through whilst the same time I have made some other online payments successfully- so not a problem with my card-Quite frustrating!
I had tried many sites. Among them zoomin.com & PrintBucket.com are fantastic. PrintBucket gives excellent service,
& their packing is wonderful, same is the case with zoomin. All the best to all of them.
i first tumbled upon picsquare, then came to know about zoomin. When zoomin started to offer 25 free prints on sign up, I made the most of it by creating multiple IDs and got my pictures delivered several times free of cost.The print quality is awesome and the add ons like sample metalic 5X7 snap, free album and just 25 rupees flat courier charges are big pluses.
Seeing the competition heat up, even picsquare started to offer 10 FREE prints of 6X8 size, and I snapped it up at once. The print quality was good enough. Then I stumbled upon snapfish.in which offers 30 FREE 4X6 snaps, but then the courier charges are quite high here (comes to Rs. 50 almost including service tax).
Going by the number of photo printing sites and competition hotting up, you can fill in a cupboard full of photo prints for FREE. Hurry Up ! Make the most of Now!! 🙂
zoomin.com gives better way to organise and print.
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Here is another Online Photo Printing Comparison Site offering 30 FREE Photo Prints on Signup from Snapfish: Photosmart.in