It's been several years already since Apple have added ability to order prints directly from iPhoto application, but hm.. I just don't need to print anything in any decent quality, usually. However, our family friends had a wedding and we have decided to give them a personalized calendar as a little after-wedding present.
So, we (my wife, actually) fired up iPhoto, and created a little calendar for a year.
Press the Buy Calendar button, and we had a little package delivered to our doors in exactly 8 days.
It actually took that long because we're in Japan, and the order was printed and shipped from the USA.
A standard hanging wall calendar. There's only one variation, actually - at least if you order from Japan.
The quality of both prints and paper are very nice.
And yeah, of course we have a little printed proof of Apple ego on the back ;)
Overall, I'm pretty satifsied with the calendar, though there are a couple of places where fonts went crazy (small calendars in empty calendar cells, not all of them, just a couple). That's because I guess Apple doesn't actually expect for months names to be written in Russian ;) Japanese stuff printed out just fine, as well as most of Russian letters, and of course English letters are the most perfect.
This will make a great gift, with very few time spent on it, and relatively cheap (around $30 USD including shipping) . I will definitely have this service on my gift radar in the future.
Excuse me for a completely non-technical post :) I'll come up with something soon I think.
