Why Do You Print?
Jun 12, 2012 10:17:02 #
I have to agree with all of the individuals who posted that printing is the basis of photography. I also have some images on Zip! drive cartridges and others on Smart Media cards that I have catalogued as well as printed out. I have elderly relatives in Puerto Rico who have not gone digital but appreciate the photographic updates of their nieces, nephews and cousins and they STILL keep photo albums. I recently went to a memorial of a very close friend and took pictures of pictures she'd taken and printed them out not only for her family but for myself as well. A long discourse, I know, but to me, as photocat wrote, there's nothing like holding a print in your hands...ain't nothing like the real thing, baby.
Jun 12, 2012 10:40:29 #
CaptainC wrote:
Because 50 years from now, the prints will be here and all those ones and zeros will - in all likelihood - be on unreadable media.
Right. That has been a concern of technology people for years. A message carved into stone, or written with a quill pen can survive for many years, but ones and zeroes - that depends on the available technology to read them. We sent a gold record into space on the Voyager(?). I hope the aliens who find it have record players.
The good news is that future generations will get by just fine without pictures of me, my family, and our town.
What I've been waiting for is an "evaporation" of the ones and zeroes that record my debts. Hasn't happened yet.
Jun 12, 2012 11:10:10 #
Tarkus wrote:
I seem to remember answering you in another thread.Ok, some of my best shots populate the walls of my... (show quote)
So, I ask again, why would you prefer to look at a 2MP screen image when you can look at a 20MP print?
Jun 12, 2012 11:17:16 #
Here's a tip. We all know that photographs fade over time. Photos printed with home digital printer fade even faster, especially if exposed to sunlight. Here's how to stop any kind of photo from fading. For your precious images have the photo laminated. Laminate excludes air if it is sealed with a border of around 10mm (one half inch or slightly less) around the print. For some reason sunlight does not affect the print either. I don't know how good home laminaters are, I had mine professionally laminated. Home laminaters will handle prints up to 10X8", but you'll need to check that. BTW, laminaters cannot handle card, just photo paper. I had a photo laminated fifteen years ago and it is perfect, others hung near it, from the same era, show faint signs of fading. Yes, the sun shines on them every day.
Jun 12, 2012 11:29:35 #
I keep an album of some of my favorite images (printed on 4x6 paper and inserted in the plastic sleeves) to share with friends when appropriate. I can also display slide shows on various monitors but I've found this to be disruptive in a group event (party). I wait until someone asks to see some of my photos, pull out the album and pass it around. The ones that are interested can closely study each image and others may quickly flip through the album then pass it on to the next interested person......and the party goes on.
Jun 12, 2012 11:38:12 #
Sunfish 33 wrote:
I keep an album of some of my favorite images (pri... (show quote)
Before digital, we put all photos into albums, and we have about a dozen. Lately, I've been putting photos into books, from Kodak and Blurb. After many years, the color shifts in photos, but once they're printed in a hardcover book, they last.
Jun 12, 2012 11:40:02 #
Shakey wrote:
Here's a tip. We all know that photographs fade over time. Photos printed with home digital printer fade even faster, especially if exposed to sunlight.
Not all home printers...;0) My Canon Pro9500 MarkII is rated at 100+ years, with it's pigmented inks. As good as a film print.
Mike
Jun 12, 2012 11:42:12 #
renomike wrote:
Not all home printers...;0) My Canon Pro9500 MarkII is rated at 100+ years, with it's pigmented inks. As good as a film print.
Mike
Shakey wrote:
Here's a tip. We all know that photographs fade over time. Photos printed with home digital printer fade even faster, especially if exposed to sunlight.
Not all home printers...;0) My Canon Pro9500 MarkII is rated at 100+ years, with it's pigmented inks. As good as a film print.
Mike
I meant commercially developed and printed photos from 40 years ago. They sometimes get a red cast.
Jun 12, 2012 12:05:44 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I meant commercially developed and printed photos from 40 years ago. They sometimes get a red cast.
Jerry.. I agree... I don't think those sticky paged albums we use to use helped either. They ruined more pictures than they ever preserved....;0)
Mike
Jun 12, 2012 12:16:02 #
If I am sharing with someone (which is a huge part of why I take pictures in the first place), I find it more gratifying to hand them a photo or a book of photos. If I give them a disc or memory card, they are required to find a medium to look at the pixels and I may never see their reaction. While I do use digital mediums and email, I prefer a picture over a pixel for the ones I really care about. :)
Jun 12, 2012 13:38:56 #
renomike wrote:
Not all home printers...;0) My Canon Pro9500 MarkII is rated at 100+ years, with it's pigmented inks. As good as a film print.
Mike
Shakey wrote:
Here's a tip. We all know that photographs fade over time. Photos printed with home digital printer fade even faster, especially if exposed to sunlight.
Not all home printers...;0) My Canon Pro9500 MarkII is rated at 100+ years, with it's pigmented inks. As good as a film print.
Mike
My Epson claims 200+ years . . . I plan on sticking around to make sure I haven't been "ripped off"!
I do workshops for local camera clubs and community centers in our area, and all workshops end with an assignment, and a request for a print of their results to the next meeting. Most haven't ever seen one of their images blown up to 8x12 and are excited when they do so.
A great print is the final test
Jun 12, 2012 14:41:58 #
Festina Lente wrote:
I stopped printing years ago and send out to a local printing service occassionally when needed. My printers were not used enough to keep the cartridges dry and ready.
But I'm still working on how to use my 55" LCD more directly vs buring a DVD slide show.
I'm not familiar with Dell Wiki and would like to learn more.
But I'm still working on how to use my 55" LCD more directly vs buring a DVD slide show.
I'm not familiar with Dell Wiki and would like to learn more.
Have ben using my 65" HD TV as a 2nd monitor for about 6 months now, strictly for show.
Jun 12, 2012 14:55:20 #
aaah, guys, and dolls, we need not wait 100 years:
http://www.redrivercatalog.com/infocenter/archivalcopyexp.htm
http://www.redrivercatalog.com/infocenter/archivalcopyexp.htm
Jun 12, 2012 14:57:43 #
Weddingguy wrote:
My Epson claims 200+ years . . . I plan on sticking around to make sure I haven't been "ripped off"!
I do workshops for local camera clubs and community centers in our area, and all workshops end with an assignment, and a request for a print of their results to the next meeting. Most haven't ever seen one of their images blown up to 8x12 and are excited when they do so.
A great print is the final test
I do workshops for local camera clubs and community centers in our area, and all workshops end with an assignment, and a request for a print of their results to the next meeting. Most haven't ever seen one of their images blown up to 8x12 and are excited when they do so.
A great print is the final test
Wow... They be blown away to see one of my 13"x 19" boarderless prints then...;0) That's the reason I bought this printer. Anything larger I send out.
Mike
Jun 12, 2012 15:11:34 #
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