Proam Imaging

Outstanding quality for the price but the user interface is very demanding of time and patience. For special prints they are definitely worth the effort but for a run of holiday snaps you need to look elsewhere.

I use Proam Imaging regularly, mostly for my university work.

It's a really good business, offering really cheap and good quality photo prints.

I'd say it's aimed at more professional or semi professional customers though, because you need to know a little about digital images to get prints done. To get digital prints, you need to download their colour profile from the website and follow specific resizing instructions. It's a little daunting at first, but once you've done it once or twice it gets easier. The positives to doing this though is you know your prints will look perfect, because you've done the resizing and colour tweaking yourself. 

I usually take my images in on a disk, and they tend to offer you the prints in 24 hours. Sometimes if I've needed them sooner I've asked for them to be done on the same day, if they are quiet they usually say yes and don't charge me extra, but often they are far too busy to fit it in. 

The staff are generally friendly, sometimes when it's very busy they can appear a bit stressed, but it's understandable. 

One point that I have never liked about this place though is they charge you £1 for a folder to put the images in (or 50p for small prints) They do say you can bring in your own envelopes/folders to avoid this cost, but they don't make it easy for you. You can only bring them in when you collect but by that time your images have already been packed into one of their envelopes, so it would mean having to take the prints out again to put into your folder. 

Recently I think the standards are possibly sliding a little bit, I got some prints done which a few of them had bright yellow lines down them, and some of my classmates have suggested the standards aren't quite the same. 

However, it's definitely my favourite print shop, and my complaints are only tiny in comparison to their excellent service and nice quality prints.