professional-quality prints of digital photos?

[topaz]

I have a few digital photos (3000x2000 JPEGs) which I would like to turn into high-quality prints suitable for framing.  How should I go about this?  While inkjet printers have gotten stunningly good at photo reproduction in the last couple of years, my experience has been that it's very hard to find paper that will really hold the color well for more than a few months.

Where should I go?  A printer?  A photo shop?  Any recommendations?

Comments

[coraline]

i highly highly recommend mpix.com, especially since they will provide you with the printer profiles they use so you can do the soft-proofing yourself, if you care about such things (i found this made a huge difference -- for some things, cameras inc in davis was fine, but they like most places were making an educated guess at how i wanted things to look, and sometimes they were wrong. i liked being able to take things into my own hands.)