SnapFish Review — Photo Printing Comparison (2012)

Digital cameras and the Internet made the sharing and organization of pictures much easier than before. The process of taking photos, editing, organizing or printing has become a very simple and timesaving process.  After taking those pictures, you just need to upload them through a photo printing online service, to print those pictures for you and on your request; they will send it to you or your recipient in a matter of days.

If you want to find what the best phone online service is, here is one of the top services provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP). Snapfish is a web-based photo sharing and photo printing service. Snapfish is one of the low cost leaders for offering good quality consumer-grade prints. It is a good choice for the user who makes many prints, and users who still use a film camera. You get high quality prints for just 12 cents each – almost 40 percent lower than major competitors – plus free online sharing and storage. They also have amazingly cheap shipping and great deals on processing actual film.

Snapfish members can share photo albums, individual photos, animated Snapshows, Group Rooms or Snapfish products. Members can share via email, link URL, and to various other web services such asFacebook, Blogger and MySpace. Like Facebook and unlike Flickr, a Snapfish account is required to view shared photos.

"Every company pledge 'value' to its customers, but only a select few of the best companies consistently deliver on the promise," said Ben Nelson, vice president and general manager, Snapfish, HP. "Since our founding in 1999, 'best value' has been our promise to Snapfish users and, with today's news, Snapfish isn't just the best place to share, store and print precious memories online, it is truly the best value in photography."

• Very inexpensive print prices. High Quality digital camera prints for an everyday low price of 9¢ each
• 110% top quality guarantee
• Free online photo sharing
• Unlimited online photo storage
• Free photo editing tools
• More than 100 custom photo gifts, cards & more
• Access to photos from wireless phones
• 50 Free prints to all new customers

Snapfish wins on price as compare to rivals in this field by offering such low cost photos with height quality product.

Competitors vs Snapfish:

Shutterfly: site is simpler and yet more informative, more interesting, and basically just around a more useful site. Their pricing is average but prints are expensive as compare to Snapfish.

Kodak is expensive as compared to Snapfish. They're offering 20 free prints when you sign up. New user terms require you to purchase from the Gallery within 90 days, and at least once a year, and for a minimum amount.

The services Snapfish offers, are comparable to Kodak and Shutterfly but these sites are aggravating as you have to sign up to see their offerings.

Photobucket is another image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website.

Snapfish site allows users to store, share, edit, and print their photos. More features are:

Features:

• They have more than a hundred of customizable photo gifts like photo books, posters, photo mugs, jewelries, cards, and many more. Another photo printing service that they offer is the Snapfish custom invitations for events that can be personalized with your pictures and message to make them more appealing to your guests.
• There are over 911 custom invitation designs that you can choose from the website. You can narrow down a design that you are looking for by ticking the choices for various categories such as the type of event, the maximum number of customized photos included in the invite, the size of the invite, the orientation, and the designer of the card.
• Snapfish also has a great Print At Home option, which works on both the MAC and PC, so you can print your photos on your home printer for free. This feature is especially useful and very easy to use.
• Snapfish offers free membership with unlimited photo storage. Members can use their uploaded photos to share and to create photo products. It also lets you upload some limited videos for sharing as well.
• Snapfish offers a service called Group rooms for sharing amongst many members.

“The Snapfish website consistently delivers a recipe of personalization, controlled community and value people are looking for,” said Ben Nelson, general manager, Snapfish by HP. “These latest features help users creatively organize and share their stories with family and friends, while complementing our basic value proposition, including high-quality prints for just 12 cents each – almost 40 percent lower than major competitors – plus free online sharing and storage.”

?Achievements:

• Snapfish has 70 million members and more than 1 billion photos online.
• Snapfish, has been voted the Winner of Editor's Choice awards from GoodHousekeeping, PCMagazine, MacWorld and Laptop Magazine.

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