Digital printing reviews: Good versus bad digital prints
We compare images from different processors and this is one of the reasons we we spot problems. In isolation some of the photos appeared OK but when they were compared to the best the problems became apparent – even for non-experts.
Here's how to spot the difference between a good photo and a poor one.
Accurate colours
The image on the left is good, but the image on the right has colour problems.
The photo on the left has very accurate colours, whereas the photograph on the right is tinted yellow. Look at the difference in, what should be, the green background.
The photograph on the right has a very yellow background. Reject the photo if something you recognise is completely the wrong colour.
Under the Supply of Goods and Service Act 1982, the processor has to use reasonable care and skill and must use materials of satisfactory quality. If it doesn't and the photos are not of satisfactory quality, it will be in breach of contract.
Ask the processor to put its breach of contract right by reprinting the pictures correctly. If it gets it wrong again, ask for your money back and get the photos produced elsewhere.
If the second processor charges more than the first, you'd be entitled to ask the first to pay the difference.
Contrast problems
The image on the right is good but the image on the left lacks depth.
Sometimes the colours in processed photographs can lack depth. The image on the left is washed out.
If you compare the embroidery on the tops it’s much brighter in the right image than in the left, you can also see this in the eye colours, the pink ring, and the lipstick.
If more information about what you should do if your photographs are developed incorrectly check out 'your rights'.