Flickr and Snapfish have struck a deal to make HP’s photo sharing site (and Flickr competitor) the go-to printing partner for the 40 million Flickr users in the US and international markets.
As Flickr’s “preferred printing partner,” Snapfish will let Flickr users to transfer, organize, and print photos, scrapbooks, and more. Yahoo says that this is the first time Flickr’s international users will have an option to print photos directly from their photostream thanks to Snapfish’s presence in 22 countries. And Flick users can also ship photos to anywhere in the world. But for now, you can only print photos from your account.
Flickr’s online photo organization features, such as Organizr, Sets, and Photo Page, are integrated with Snapfish as well. Members in the U.S. have the option to pick up their prints locally at any of Snapfish’s retail partners’ stores, including Walmart, Walgreens, Staples, Duane Reade, and others retail stores.
It’s unclear what the revenue share is between the two photo sharing sites. HP acquired Snapfish in 2005 days after Yahoo acquired Flickr.
Flickr also recently added people photo tagging and launched an iPhone app. But the popular photo sharing site has come under fire in the past few months for freedom of speech issues and Yahoo’s branding of Flickr. But Flickr has remained a dominant player in the photo sharing space, with more than 4 billion photos uploaded, growing at a rate of 100 million per month.
Beware of the Snapper Fish. They held my photos for ransom when they bought up Photosite.com from Homestead.com
This deal makes sense for all involved though I wonder what Google will have in this space that it doesn’t play a major role in. Even Amazon has on-demand printing!
Jon @ WoodMarvels.com
These are very reputable companies, this is a good deal for photo-lovers. I like how Snapfish started by giving away so many free prints because they believe in the quality of their products.
I wonder what print technology HP is using at Snapfish. HP had an incredible high-volume ink jet tech which they spun off as Phogenix. Shame that the decision to kill it off at the time did not anticipate such outcomes as Flickr via Snapfish. Image quality was incredible. Oh well.
Just ordered a few prints from my flickr account. Will wait and see if the quality’s any good.
There’s already a new disruptive technology available on the web: Pixable! These guys print your facebook pictures very easily and in great quality using facebook-connect!
@Johannes – Snapfish enabled printing from Facebook months ago http://richdemuro.com/finally-a-way-to-print-facebook-photos-snapfi
Combination of Flickr and SnapFish is awesome
Very useful for users 
Casey: Huh? Snapfish never bought photosite.com from anybody:
From http://www.aboutus.org/PhotoSite.com:
Homestead sold PhotoSite to United Online Inc. in March 2005. United Online later decided that Photo Sharing was not part of their core business and shut down the PhotoSite product in 2007.
… it sort of went like this… Homestead created Photosite.com… sold it to United Online… United Online closed it and moved all my photos to Snapper. Now I have to pay Snapper to get the original digitals of my photos downloaded.
Johannes, How could anyone print facebook pictures in high quality – they’re too low resolution.