Do I get a choice?
The photos of Power and Basic subscribers all print through EZ Prints.
SmugMug Pros can choose in their pricing tool to have their prints handled through either EZ Prints, Bay Photo or WHCC. They can choose one lab as the default for their portfolio, and specify certain galleries to be printed through another, if needed.
Merchandise (such as mugs and stickers) goes through EZ Prints, regardless of account level.
What's the difference?
All the labs we choose have excellent color reproduction and solid reputations. We've printed through EZ Prints for years, and added Bay Photo and WHCC to bring new products and hand color correction to our Pros and their clients.
The labs differ in their catalogs, pricing, color correction, shipping and packaging.
Whichever lab you choose, you and your visitors are fully covered by SmugMug's print guarantee.
Bay Photo
Bay Photo, a professional lab located in Santa Cruz, California, has been catering to top pros since 1976. At SmugMug, Bay Photo is available exclusively to Pros.
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A true pro lab, Bay Photo offers pricing that includes hand color correction of each print. Their experts will fuss over each order, ensuring superb color and consistency from print to print.
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All prints are carefully flat-packed — damage during shipment is almost unheard of.
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Bay Photo carries more sizes and papers, including panoramic sizes and Giclée watercolor prints.
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For photographers who prefer to do their own color adjustments, we also offer the option to disable color correction. The uncorrected print prices are somewhat lower: Bay Photo catalog.
Loxley Colour
Loxley Colour has been serving the UK and Europe for over 50 years, proving that their dedication to professional photographers is the real deal.
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Your clients will find all the traditional glossy, lustre and metallic prints in the sizes they already know and love.
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Loxley Colour offers a selection of unique print products, such as Glacier Blocks and Acrylic windows that showcase your images like never before.
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Save time and enable color correction, or turn it off if you do it yourself. Like Bay Photo, you'll notice a slight difference in the base pricing when you do this. See the Loxley catalog
WHCC
White House Custom Colour in Minneapolis/St Paul has been serving portrait and wedding photographers since 1977. At SmugMug, WHCC is available exclusively to Pros.
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WHCC offers a wide range of print sizes and paper, including square and panoramic prints.
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Check out their Standout prints for a unique, lightweight and modern frame-free way of displaying your favorite prints.
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Like Bay Photo, you can opt to turn off color correction if you correct your own photos. You'll note a slight difference in the base pricing when you do so. View the catalog.
EZ Prints
Located in Georgia, EZ Prints handles merchandise for all accounts and prints for Power and Basic accounts (and optionally for Pros).
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EZ Prints tubes larger prints, rather than flat-packing them. This makes shipping less expensive on large prints, but you'll need to flatten them yourself.
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We offer Matte prints, rolled canvas prints, and photo cards in the EZ Prints catalog, but not through Bay Photo.
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Color correction through EZ Prints is included in the price of prints (but optional) and is the same great "auto color" that has saved the day for countless SmugMug subscribers throughout the last four years.
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Because merchandise always goes through EZ Prints, if prints go through EZ Prints as well, customers won't have to pay double shipping if they have both a t-shirt and a print in their cart.
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In general, most prices are somewhat lower. EZ Prints catalog.
Get a Print Sample
Unsure? Tell us your shipping address and which lab you want and we'll ship you a free set of print samples.
You'll get one of each of our print finishes and a calibration print to help you be sure what you see on your screen is what you get.