Do I get a choice?
The photos of Power and Standard subscribers all print through EZ Prints.
SmugMug's Professional subscribers can choose in their pricing tool to have their prints handled through either EZ Prints or Bay Photo. They can choose one lab as the default for their portfolio, and specify certain galleries to be printed through the other lab, if needed.
Merchandise (such as mugs and stickers) goes through EZ Prints, regardless of account level.
What's the difference?
Both labs have excellent color reproduction and solid reputations. We've printed through EZ Prints for years, and added Bay Photo more recently to bring new products and hand color correction to our Professional subscribers and their customers.
The two labs differ in their catalogs, pricing, color correction, shipping and packaging because Bay Photo caters almost exclusively to professional photographers.
Whichever lab you choose, you and your visitors are fully covered by SmugMug's print guarantee.
EZ Prints
Located in Georgia, EZ Prints handles merchandise for all accounts and prints for Power and Standard accounts (and optionally for Professionals).
- EZ Prints tubes larger prints, rather than flat-packing them. This makes shipping less expensive on large prints, but you'll need to flatten them yourself.
- We offer Matte prints, rolled canvas prints, and photo cards in the EZ Prints catalog, but not through Bay Photo.
- Color correction through EZ Prints is included in the price of prints (but optional) and is the same great "auto color" that has saved the day for countless SmugMug subscribers throughout the last four years.
- Because merchandise always goes through EZ Prints, if prints go through EZ Prints as well, customers won't have to pay double shipping if they have both a t-shirt and a print in their cart.
- In general, most prices are somewhat lower. EZ Prints catalog.
Bay Photo
Bay Photo, a professional lab located in Santa Cruz, California, has been catering to top pros since 1976. At SmugMug, Bay Photo is available exclusively for Professional subscribers for prints and canvas.
- A true pro lab, Bay Photo offers pricing that includes hand color correction of each print. Their experts will fuss over each order, ensuring superb color and consistency from print to print.
- All prints are carefully flat-packed — damage during shipment is almost unheard of.
- Bay Photo carries more sizes and papers, including panoramic sizes and Giclée watercolor prints. SmugMug will continue to add products geared specifically towards Professional photographers.
- For photographers who prefer to do their own color adjustments, we also offer the option to disable color correction. The uncorrected print prices are somewhat lower: Bay Photo catalog.