So Collages.net now has collagesColor, their in-house printing solution. But they won't divulge who the secret lab is! Some privacy, non-disclosure nonsense. The lab doesn't want people to know who they are.

What gives??? Does anyone know who the secret lab is? WHCC perhaps? This will help me in deciding who to use for fulfillment because I plan on using WHCC. But if the secret lab is WHCC anyway, I might as well fulfill through collagesColor and keep it simple.

Any detectives out there?

I don't know if you really need to know -- do you? Try them out. I doubt it's WHCC because the lab that Collages.net is using has been around for 50 years or so. Everything I've seen from CollagesColor has been very good. I doubt you'll be disappointed. Collages.net's customer service is the best there is. I'm not kidding. They're the standard I base everyone else on. The only other company I've dealt with that has been on par with them is Paul Buff (Alien Bees, White Lightning) -- but they're not a regularly-used vendor.

There's nothing "magical" about WHCC. Yes they do good work, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try someone else. Most photographers have at least two labs they work with on a regular basis, anyway.

As an aside, the other day I saw a Collages.net ad in PP that said they'll now do everything for you, if you want. You just shoot. They edit, color correct, sort, upload and fulfill (and some other stuff I don't remember offhand). Lynn's comment was "they just became Pictage"

I'd get some test prints done at CollagesColor and see how you like them. If they're good, just use them. If you're looking to outsourse all that, there's no sense to not try them out.

I suspect it might be Miller's Lab. Their prints are incredible.

What makes you suspect Miller's?

i know it's a lab that's been around for over 50 years and has two locations and that gave me big clues.

How do you know the collagesColor lab has two locations? I couldn't get them to divulge anything on the phone. Very tight-lipped.