Haven't printed out many but I've used http://ezprints.com/ The thing I like is all their printers are routinely calibrated so something that you print now will print the same 6 months from now. Also smug mug ended up with them after doing some testing of their own. I think they still offer it as well as some other website that's more geared towards professionals and are a little more pricy than ezprints.

Sounds like a pretty solid online printing option.

I used to use MPix (http://mpix.com) when I was doing portraits and weddings. They were pretty consistent. I don't remember having any issues with them once we got our profiles and monitors calibrated.

We used to print in-office after we went digital; but have since outsourced to local top-quality labs because it was just too expensive and time consuming. For select images, our favorite is probably the metallic photo paper -- unbelievable color depth!

I haven't done much printing lately, perhaps because I'm overwhelmed by the amount of photos that I take and lack of a good photo printer. However, I do have one now that's I feel give me good prints so that's what I'm using exclusively to for family and for friends.
I have gotten some quality professional prints from Zenfolio that I like quite a lot. I'm not a pro though, just a hobbyist so it's fine with me. Would love to get a canvas print one day...

Printing @ home on a Epson Photo PX710W with Epson premium glossy 6x4 or A4.

With everything calibrated all the way I get as good result as any photo lab I have tried.

Since I switched to digital I'm getting a lot less small prints and a lot more large prints. I don't have much use for 4"x6"s anymore. A family website gallery has replaced our family snaps albums. Occasionally I have a photo book made. We rotate the framed photos on our walls a lot more often now though. In my mind when I am previsualizing a photograph I see a print. I almost always think the prints look better than on the monitor.

I use Mpix.com for my prints. When I shot film I had my own darkroom, and did much of my own processing and printing. When I switched to digital I decided that I needed to concentrate on learning digital exposure and processing first, and I could learn ink jet printing later. Also I really couldn't afford a decent ink jet printer, the inks, papers, etc... I calibrate my monitor every few weeks, and order chromogenic prints on Kodak Endura without any corrections. The prints arrive a few days later looking just as I expected. I've got nothing against ink jet prints. They look great. But I'm so happy with C-prints, and it seems really cheap and easy to me. I talk to a lot of home printers who seem to struggle and spend a lot of money. Someday I probably will study ink jet printing, but for now I just think of it as I've got 150 mile long printer cables instead of 15' printer cables. Oh yeah, and the printer I get to use is way more expensive than anything I could afford, and comes with trained staff to maintain it. ;)

Mpix offers a few different paper types. I like plain old Kodak Endura. I like glossy with surface pebbling such as glossy FB or pearl RC looks. The Kodak Metallic is too weird for me, although after seeing a Daguerreotype exhibit I thought it might be interesting to try for some projects. Mpix offers a RC silver gelatin paper. I've done numerous comparisons between BW prints on that and the Kodak Endura. Some folks claim they can see a difference, but I don't see any other than the paper surface. The "true BW" has more of a satin finish. I prefer the pebbled surface, and Mpix has no problem printing neutral BW on color paper. These days I usually warm it up a smidge anyway, so I need the color paper.

Funny you mention metallic photo paper. That's what I'm testing right now for review.

I don't think that it matters whether you're a pro or hobbyist on whether or not you're getting your photos printed.

I think what the current, and future, generations of kids are going to miss out on is shuffling through shoe-boxes of family photos from vacations and parties and what not.

It's kinda sad if you think about it.

Sounds awesome.

It's all about the calibration!

Yeah, Mpix does a great job.

Quality people and quality paper.

I'm willing to bet that the people who are having trouble with Ink Jet printing are having issues with color calibration and making sure that everything is talking to each other properly.

You either want the printer to color manage or the photo editing software NOT BOTH!

Using profiles and saving profiles and calibrating your monitor make all the difference in the world.

I love prints. I just bought an Epson 3880, after sending prints to various places and not being happy with the inconsistent results. (I'm in Melbourne, Australia.)

Early days yet, but I'm enjoying having full control over the entire process from camera to finished print. It's definitely a learning curve to get great prints, but the more time invested, the better they become.

I started in the film era as well but once going digital made it impossible to keep up with the printing. Just because I shoot in raw and I like to touch them up before printing. Standard settings look blah to me. Then I found the perfect point and shoot that I could just shoot in jpeg and print but I still like giving it some pop. I print on a ... See More professional photo lab with the proper software to enable me to calibrate my prints with my monitor.

In the film days you didn't have that control, I guess you would say it is much more work but definately much more rewarding.

By having the photos on a website like Smugmug.com everyone, far flung family and friends included, get to see the photos, and they can even order prints and make their own albums if they want. My kids can pull up the albums on school computers to show their friends. Where ever we are we can access our family albums. I love prints and we make albums and photo books, but we are sharing and using our family snaps more than ever with them online.

Biggest tip for printing at home. Take notes and save your profiles!

Oh yeah...and enjoy!

I love being able to have full control and experiment and yes...the instant gratification is fantastic as well.

Yes, a thousand times yes, the more time invested the better (and more consistent) they become.

Yeah, I can see how it is more work and you're right, much more rewarding.

Smugmug is a really great service; especially in the way in which you are using it.

I know many photographers who are using them and the lab they outsource to is doing incredibly consistent work from what I hear. Something I need to revisit for sure.

The cheapest package is around $35 a year (I think) and worth looking into.

Very rarely i print.. and mostly 2-3 photography photos with the 100 family photos :). All of them on standard 4X6 or 5:7 prints.. i haven't figured what to do with them if i print any bigger!! I really wish i print more!!

You can print out some 8x10s then matte and frame them. We print various sizes of family photos and hang them throughout out house in groupings or as individual displays.