# Colortek of Boston, Boston: a photo lab in Boston (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ma/boston/colortek-of-boston-ma. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 4 sources. Updated 2026-08-13. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ma/boston/colortek-of-boston-ma ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmsr6ijve06azyeci4uyrf8o4%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmsr6ijve06azyeci4uyrf8o4%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmsr6ijve06azyeci4uyrf8o4%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmsr6ijve06azyeci4uyrf8o4%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmsr6ijve06azyeci4uyrf8o4%2F4.jpg) ## In short Colortek of Boston is a photo lab. Its AI Score is 50 of 100, which is fair. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Photo lab | | Address | 727 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA 02111, USA | | Hours | Closed Mon · Tue to Fri 11 AM to 5 PM · Sat 11 AM to 3 PM · Closed Sun | | Phone | (617) 451-0894 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.5 across 155 reviews on Google | | Known for | Colortek of Boston is best known for its film developing services, providing quick and reliable processing that appeals to both amateur and seasoned photographers. Their friendly staff and accommodating service enhance the overall experience. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 18, 2026, 9:17 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 727 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA 02111, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Photo lab offering prints of analog film & digital images on a variety of media, plus restoration. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon Closed · Tue to Fri 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Location info | Mondays | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Colortek of Boston | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (617) 451-0894 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | | Services | Service | After hours film drop | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Analog photo printing | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Digital photo printing | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Film developing | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Photo restoration | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Photo upload service | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Upload page | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Links | Website | http://www.colortekofboston.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 13, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 2 services Colortek of offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | After hours film drop | | | | Confirmed | | Upload page | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Colortek of Boston is best known for its film developing services, providing quick and reliable processing that appeals to both amateur and seasoned photographers. Their friendly staff and accommodating service enhance the overall experience. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Colortek of Address: 727 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA 02111, USA. Phone: (617) 451-0894. Hours: Closed Mon · Tue to Fri 11 AM to 5 PM · Sat 11 AM to 3 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 13, 2026 at 3:10 AM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Colortek of on its Google Business Profile: "Photo lab offering prints of analog film & digital images on a variety of media, plus restoration." ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Wonton Cafe | Restaurant | 1 min walk | | Koko Coffee \| South Station | Cafe | 1 min walk | | SJ's Restaurant | Bistro | 1 min walk | | Dunkin' | Coffee shop | 1 min walk | | Zhi Wei Cafe | Restaurant | 1 min walk | | o ya | Japanese restaurant | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 4.5 average across 155 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 13, 2026.) Colortek stands out for its quick film development and knowledgeable staff, but faces criticism for pricing and quality inconsistencies. (AI guess, from 155 reviews.) ### What people like - Quick turnaround for film development - High-quality prints for wedding photos - Knowledgeable staff for passport photos ### What people do not like - High prices compared to competitors - Inconsistent quality of developed photos - Long wait times for processing ### Press No press story about Colortek of found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Colortek of Colortek of hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### Worth the hype at Colortek of? No answer yet ### is there parking at Colortek of or is it street only? No answer yet ### do I need to fill anything in beforehand No answer yet ### Booking here, how does it work? No answer yet ### what do people actually pay at labs around Boston No answer yet ### Are the hours on Google right for Colortek of in Boston? No answer yet ### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints? No answer yet ### budget options in Boston, what is decent No answer yet ### best photo lab in Boston No answer yet ### the good stuff about Colortek of, what is it? No answer yet ### planning a Monday visit, is that a wasted trip No answer yet ### anywhere on Atlantic to sit while I wait No answer yet ### Colortek of, any chance to get in this week? No answer yet ### where does this place post updates No answer yet ### services here, what do people go in for? No answer yet ### membership, worth it or not No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Colortek of We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Colortek of. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 13, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 50 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Colortek of scores 50. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Colortek of | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 100 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 1 answer that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 84 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 56 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 61 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 34 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a photo lab When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a photo lab in Massachusetts, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with Massachusetts. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Colortek of if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Colortek of | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Colortek of Boston | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.colortekofboston.com/ | Subject of this page | | Boston, Massachusetts | City | #city | Nothing found | City Colortek of is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the photo labs in Boston, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best photo labs in Boston: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/boston/photo-lab - Best businesses in Boston: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/boston ### Nearby - /cambridge: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/cambridge - /newton: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/newton - /somerville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/somerville - /brookline: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/brookline - /waltham: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/waltham - /wellesley: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/wellesley ### Every list - Every leaderboard in Massachusetts: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Colortek of Boston. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJpY7Jxnh644kRmUTgk1mzdDw (accessed Aug 13, 2026) - [2] colortekofboston.com, https://www.colortekofboston.com/after-hours-film-drop/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [3] colortekofboston.com, https://www.colortekofboston.com/upload-page/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [4] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 13, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)