Printing photos can be expensive, but if you have some patience and know where to look for deals you can print your photos for cheap.
Create a “To Print” folder
Instead of printing photos as I take them, I print photos as I find deals. I have a folder on my computer called “To Print” where I keep a copy of all the photos that need to be printed. As I print them, I remove them from this folder (since they are just copies, not originals). When a hot photo printing deals is available, I don’t have to take the time to figure out what I want to print. I just upload the photos from the To Print Folder and place my order within minutes.
Know your best print price
My best print price is less than 7c shipped. Always remember to account for shipping when you figure out the cost per print. If you aren’t sure how to do this, just take the total amount you paid for your order and divide it by the number of prints you ordered. So if you got 100 prints for $5 shipped, you paid 5c a print.
Take advantage of New Member deals
The following websites offer new member deals just for joining their site.
Kodak Gallery – 50 free 4×6 prints for new members, just pay shipping
Snapfish – 50 free 4×6 prints for new members, just pay shipping
SeeHere by FujiFilm – 25 FREE 4×8 cards when you enter the code 25cards before 10/31
Shutterfly - 50 free 4×6 prints for new members, just pay shipping
Canvas People – Free 8×10 Canvas. Just pay $14.95 shipping.
Don’t forget your cash back
ShopAtHome.com offers cash back at Snapfish, Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly and more. If you go thru their website before you place your print order, you can lower your out of pocket even more.
If you are new to Couponing, you might want to take a moment to read more in my Getting Started Couponing series. It will teach you how to coupon like I do!
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Thanks! I’ve been scouting out good deals for printing our wedding photos and now I just learned about some more! Thanks!
I do something similar with photo books. I love the professionally printed photobooks, from Snapfish for example. So when I have all my photos online that I want to make into a photobook, I make the book at my leisure, and save it in my projetcs area of my snapfish account, and when a good deal comes out ( the best I have come across is 50% off) my book is already made, edited and ready to go, all i need to do at that time is putit in the cart, add the promo code and check out.
The idea of a “to print” folder is a very good one. Whenever Walgreens does those free 8X10s or worse, the free collages, I always find myself either missing out on the deal or up past 11pm selecting and uploading photos. I would say, not only have a “to print” folder, but if you have one or two “go to” sites for photo deals (like Walgreens for me), maybe go ahead and upload them, too. I find the sites slow down a lot during hot deals, and uploading can take forever.
I always shop at Walgreens to avoid shipping!