Wonder how many quit printing their photos

On Feb 16, 3:40 pm, "Amamba" <e....RemoveThis@mailexcite.com> wrote:
> Ever since I went digital about two + years ago, I stopped printing my
> photos - too many pics, too much work printing + arranging them in
> albums, and, finally - they look much better on a 19" screen anyway !
>
> I am still saving them at maximum quality setting, though... although
> at some point I will probably downsample copies for screen and save
> originals on DVDs.
>
> Just wonder how many people still print their photos and why.


I never did print more than a small fraction of my images. As most
courses in photography teach, film is (was) cheap. Unprinted digital
images are even cheaper!

I always shot lots of shots for each picture I wanted. Still do-
maybe even more.

I print from my computer, my wife likes a local Wal-mart photo
center. I can look at what I get, and easily correct it.

I print for framing for walls, entries in monthly photo club
competition, and for showing smaller prints to friends.

I used to do B &W darkroom stuff. So much easier now, and I can even
do my own color. All the fancy darkroom stuff I did- burning,
dodging, Kodalith derivatives, composite images- so much easier now.
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On 16 Feb 2007 13:40:14 -0800, "Amamba" <egroy DeleteThis @mailexcite.com> wrote:

>Ever since I went digital about two + years ago, I stopped printing my
>photos - too many pics, too much work printing + arranging them in
>albums, and, finally - they look much better on a 19" screen anyway !
>
>I am still saving them at maximum quality setting, though... although
>at some point I will probably downsample copies for screen and save
>originals on DVDs.
>
>Just wonder how many people still print their photos and why.

Judging from the replies to your question, most of the enthusiasts
here prefer to look at their pics on the monitor.

I have noticed the machines in the local drugstore are always
busy with people getting the digital shots oprinted.
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In article <1171662014.176058.12440.TakeThisOut@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Amamba" <egroy.TakeThisOut@mailexcite.com> wrote:

> Ever since I went digital about two + years ago, I stopped printing my
> photos - too many pics, too much work printing + arranging them in
> albums, and, finally - they look much better on a 19" screen anyway !
>
> I am still saving them at maximum quality setting, though... although
> at some point I will probably downsample copies for screen and save
> originals on DVDs.
>
> Just wonder how many people still print their photos and why.

I print the photos I want to give away as gifts, frame to hang at home
or my office, or sell.
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:40:14 -0800, Amamba wrote:

> Ever since I went digital about two + years ago, I stopped printing my
> photos - too many pics, too much work printing + arranging them in
> albums, and, finally - they look much better on a 19" screen anyway !
>
> I am still saving them at maximum quality setting, though... although
> at some point I will probably downsample copies for screen and save
> originals on DVDs.
>
> Just wonder how many people still print their photos and why.

I print ones I like - for display and 'showing off'. We also, from time to
time, load a new set on the 'digital photo album'.
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"Amamba" <egroy.RemoveThis@mailexcite.com> writes:
> Just wonder how many people still print their photos and why.

Last time I printed a photo was for use on my passport which I renewed
last summer. I almost never print them now either.

I do have a home inkjet printer but the cartridge dried out even
though it had plenty of ink left. I bought another cartridge that
came in a sealed container, and have occasionally wanted to print a
picture, but then thought "if I unseal the cartridge and print just
one picture, the cartridge will then dry out before I print any more,
so there goes $30+". I probably won't open the cartridge unless some
situation arises where I have a lot of pictures to print. This isn't
anything like my monochrome laser printer, which I used for 5+ years
on one toner cartridge.

I got my passport photo (above) printed at Walgreen's, and it cost
just 30 cents per print, but getting it done was a bigger pain in the
neck than I expected. For example, they tried to collect my name and
address before they'd print my picture (I refused to give it to them).
I also get privacy paranoia over uploading my digital images to some
damn retail store and thinking they might be retaining copies,
although I'm a bit extremist in this regard.

If they made a printer that didn't have this drying-out problem, I
might print pictures more often. As it is, I get by without it.
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>> >>> Ever since I went digital about two + years ago, I stopped printing
>> >>> my
>>>>>>>>>>SNIPPED>>
>> Like you, I never printed everything I shot, mainly because when I shot
>> film, I used black and white, primarily, and did it in my own darkroom.
>> So,
>> I'd just print the 2 or 3 per roll that appealed to me. And I printed
>> 8x10
>> and up.
>>
>> --
>> Skip Middletonwww.shadowcatcherimagery.comwww.pbase.com/skipm
>
> Printing 8x10s tends to get space hungry unless your wife likes
> having pictures everywhere.
>
Hi

You can get quite a lot of 10 x 8 s into a display book, which is an easy to
show people your work.

Unlike the old days, you can now delete the ones which are not keepers.
That was not quite such an easy decision to make, when it involved dumping a
whole strip of 6 negs.

Roy G
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> If they made a printer that didn't have this drying-out problem, I
> might print pictures more often. As it is, I get by without it.



Why don't you give the dye-subs a look?
Always ready, never dry out, plus the hardy clear overcoat.
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> >> >>news:1171662014.176058.12440@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >> >>> Ever since I went digital about two + years ago, I stopped printing
> >> >>> my
> >>>>>>>>>>SNIPPED>>
> >> Like you, I never printed everything I shot, mainly because when I shot
> >> film, I used black and white, primarily, and did it in my own darkroom.
> >> So,
> >> I'd just print the 2 or 3 per roll that appealed to me. And I printed
> >> 8x10
> >> and up.
>
> >> --
> >> Skip Middletonwww.shadowcatcherimagery.comwww.pbase.com/skipm
>
> > Printing 8x10s tends to get space hungry unless your wife likes
> > having pictures everywhere.
>
> Hi
>
> You can get quite a lot of 10 x 8 s into a display book, which is an easy to
> show people your work.
>
> Unlike the old days, you can now delete the ones which are not keepers.
> That was not quite such an easy decision to make, when it involved dumping a
> whole strip of 6 negs.
>
> Roy G

Well, I am not even a serious amateur. All pictures that I take are
for my personal use - and there's only so many walls in the house.

I am waiting for digital picture frames to become cheaper and larger.
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Amamba wrote:
> Ever since I went digital about two + years ago, I stopped printing my
> photos - too many pics, too much work printing + arranging them in
> albums, and, finally - they look much better on a 19" screen anyway !
>
> I am still saving them at maximum quality setting, though... although
> at some point I will probably downsample copies for screen and save
> originals on DVDs.
>
> Just wonder how many people still print their photos and why.
>
I don't print unless someone requests a print. If I have a few to
print, I use my inkjet, but 15 or more goes to Sam's.
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Amamba <egroy.DeleteThis@mailexcite.com> wrote:
>Ever since I went digital about two + years ago, I stopped printing my
>photos - too many pics, too much work printing + arranging them in
>albums, and, finally - they look much better on a 19" screen anyway !

>I am still saving them at maximum quality setting, though... although
>at some point I will probably downsample copies for screen and save
>originals on DVDs.

>Just wonder how many people still print their photos and why.

Printing is too damned expensive, the home printers I've
had seem to clog up if you look at them crosswise, and
matching screen to paper to processing program is a pain.

--
--- Paul J. Gans
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On Feb 16, 1:40 pm, "Amamba" <e... RemoveThis @mailexcite.com> wrote:

> Just wonder how many people still print their photos and why.

Having read all the other replies, I don't see any comments on what I
think may be the best reason to print the best of the best, at least.
Preservation. If technology keeps evolving as it has and all you've
got in 10, 15, 20 yrs. from now of today's best photos are today's
digital copies, on whatever media, you simply may not have them
preserved. So, I'd recommend at least a Fuji Crystal Archive, or
Epson UltraChrome print of your best to save. Then you at least will
have that when your digital copies are crashed or the media no longer
readable. Think long term. I'm currently scanning special family
negatives and prints from 1891 onward and will be distributing digital
and print copies to several family members and feel very fortunate to
be able to do so. I have no confidence that the digital photos I save
today will be available digitally in 100 yrs. with the vagaries of
technology and accidents.
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