need 30 or so old photos blowing up

Doglover88

curently planning a birthday party and need a load of old photos blowing up to roughly A4 size each.. I guess i could get negatives made from each, then enlargements donee but im guessing that'll cost quite a bit, is finding someone with a decent scanner and printer the most cost effective option? The more recent pics are on digital so no probs there, but a lot of the photos are 10+ years old...

Many thanks in advance

Little_John

and you want us to advise you about what?

You need to get the photos scanned in and printed out larger ohh yeah you said that in your post.

Any scanner will do it is a case you need someone that knows how to use it to get the colours matched up and clean up and creases or scratches on the photos. sam with the printing most printers can produce a decent image when used with glossy paper it is just a case of the cost of printing and buying the paper makes it chepaer to send the digital images to be printed elsewhere. normally A4 sized prints cost a lot more than the standard 4x6 prints so it may work out expensive to do it that way.

fairenoughclough

Do you know somebody that works in an office with a colour photocopier ?

:rolleyes:

lightisfading

You can do it at Jessops but it costs a bit. From print it would be £2 each for 9x6" or about a fiver for a 10x8"/12x8" (roughly A4).

Personally I would find someone with a scanner, scan them all in (and touch up the colours etc a bit if possible), and then get them printed in the high street which is usually way cheaper from CD than from print.

Contains_Mild_Peril

Yep, the labs charge a fortune if they scan them for you, so find someone with a scanner, get them on CD, perform any necessary tweaks (home scans normally have a few dust spots, no matter how clean your scanner looks!) and get them printed professionally, which will usually be cheaper and provide better quality than home printing. Mail order labs are often cheaper than the High St for biggish prints: I normally use dlab7 or Snapfish for anything bigger than 9 x 6".
P.S. If you want as many as 30 enlargements from prints, you would actually be cheaper buying a cheap scanner and uploading your scans to a mail-order processing lab than having somwehwere like Jessops scan and print that many!