Disclaimer: anything I put into this entry is purely based on my own experience.  All content is my personal opinion.

Another continuation.  Yesterday was CostCo, today MPIX.  MPIX, in my opinion, has the best Metallic prints of all companies that I’ve used.  I’m not sure it’s appropriate for all outputs, but it seems to work pretty well.  Sometimes it seems to lack smoothness, though.

So, to jump into it:

Color: So long as you follow instructions, no color shifts. That means uploading images in sRGB.  I messed this up once, and the quality was still good – but doing sRGB made it much, much better.  Big thumbs up here.

Crops: no discernible cropping to the edges.  Maybe a pixel or two, but easily acceptable.  Another big thumb up.

Paper quality: decent heft, Kodak endura.  Some may prefer something else, but it’s acceptable.  Still thumbs up.

Sharpening: Oooh, so close.  Big failure here – they flat-out recommend not sharpening the photos. I have a real problem with this – the output needs to be to my spec, not their automated one. Any sharpening at all, in any way, shape, or form seems to give horrible halos

Overall: I’ve used them for the last two years in a row for my personal holiday cards.  After this year, where I deliberately kept sharpening to a minimum, I may not do it again.  They halos are barely there, but… well, they’re there.

Still, the price is right.  And their metallic prints?  Gorgeous.  By mid-year, I may have changed my mind on these guys!