Truprint personalised photo gifts review

This is a sponsored post with Truprint as per our disclosure policy.

You may have noticed that we have been on holiday to Interlaken recently and the kids, and, in fact, the whole family, took some rather lovely pictures.

We were delighted to be asked to review the Truprint personalised photo gifts website so that we were able to take some of those wonderful memories from our holiday and turn them into some stunning photo gifts. My Dad’s birthday is coming up, and what better way to celebrate than to give him a picture of the family as a gift?

The homepage for the site is easy on the eye, though there is a lot of information and places to head off too for photo gifts. It was hard to find where we wanted to go initially, or which products were right for us. However, I suspect this is more to do with the choices available to the consumer, which is no bad thing.

We were looking for something to keep our memories; and there is a lot of choice of gifts on the Truprint site as you can see, however, we decided on a Photobook initially to capture the moments from the whole holiday forever.

Every gift can be personalised with your own choices, everything from the dustcover and the theme for the background to the photos, to the size of the photobook you are looking for. The 11in by 8in books are £24.99 with 20 pages in, though you can add extras for £1.49 for 2 pages.

The flexibility of the site for personalising the product is excellent. This does make the set up for your photobooks time consuming, so make sure you know what photos you are going to use, and that you have time to organise and label your pictures.

Be careful your text is within the pages as well, otherwise your words will get cut off in their prime!

Uploading all my photos from Interlaken was simple..

Don’t forget to save your work though, as I struggled with this at first, and lost a bit of time. Look out for the disc icon on your screen to save a bit of heartache ;-)

Once completed, and ordered, the book itself took only a few days to arrive – good turnaround time for something that is so well personalised.

The quality of the book is good overall; the pages aren’t too thin, and the dustcover looks like it might survive a few fiddles from Stuntboy :-D.

Given the range of choices, we were also lucky enough to get a few other photo gifts for the family. The photobook was a personal choice for us, as a keepsake. However, we ordered a couple of acrylics and a canvas as well, to give to friends and family both for Christmas and birthdays

From left to right: Photo Canvas 12 x 12 (£29.99), 10 x 10 Acrylic print (£39.99) and A5 acrylic block (£34.99)

We were surprised by the variety on the site, and were able to pick some formats that worked with all the photos that we were interested in gifting; from a stunning view in Interlaken as an ornament using the Acrylic block gift option, to a lovely family shot on a 12 x 12 Canvas for my Dad’s birthday.

In summary…

FOR

Great choice
Wide variety of options means most budgets are catered for
Good value
Speedy of delivery was excellent

AGAINST

Planning is a must
Don’t forget to save
Difficult to work out how to change the format of photos within the photobook.

OVERALL 8/10

A good site, that with the right preparation and patience will give you some excellent Christmas gifts.

Why take my word for it though – we have a great reader offer for you!

60% off Truprint photo gifts orders (excluding P&P) with KiddyCharts

Because we know how tough it can be around Christmas to get that ideal present – why not spread a little photo gifts love with a little help from KiddyCharts?

All you need to do is use the code, kiddycharts60 at checkout, and you will get 60% off your order at Truprint. Marvellous! Happy shopping everyone. This voucher code expires on December 31st, 2013.

Have you used the site, did you use the voucher – what do YOU think – do let us all know.

Helen

Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine!Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time.KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10.It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania.Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on.Get in touch TODAY!