Bonusprint

£36 www.bonusprint.co.uk

this size photo book starts at just £25, but a photo printed hardcover adds an extra £5, and we also specced lay-flat premium pages that carry a £0.25 surcharge per page. However, like Photobox and Snapfish, Bonusprint often runs very generous discount codes.

Book creation using the online designer is remarkably effortless and almost on par with Snapfish’s software.

The book itself arrived in four working days, and it looks the part. Cover image quality isn’t quite as crisp as Bob Books’ offering, but comes very close for colour saturation, contrast and overall punch. Inside, the thick, lay-flat pages have marginally less lustre than Bob’s, but are just as thick and feel equally luxurious. Like the cover image, print resolution is ever so slightly lower than Bob’s, leaving individual ink droplet patterns visible on larger areas of solid colour, and causing very fine detail to appear slightly grainy, but we are nit-picking. Mono images appear neutral, and skin tones natural.

VERDICT

Pros: Fast service; easy design process; very good book quality Cons: Can’t match Bob Books for outright resolution and detail We say: An impressive book; great value if you find a discount code