[Stuart Wright]

How do you print off your digital photos? We have thousands sitting in organised folders on my PC. I haven't got the time to get organised and print them off.

[Paulie-W]

About 50/50 for me. I tend to delete the rubbish at entry point, then print out the ones i want to shove in a frame etc.

[dts borg]

Originally Posted by Stuart Wright

We have thousands sitting in organised folders on my PC. I haven't got the time to get organised and print them off.

Same here Over the last seven years I have changed Digital cameras 3 times. I have also in this time moved the pictures on several different PC's. I did once when my son was born 3 1/2 years ago get 110 prints done at boots
Where did all my spare time go Oh well I only have 50 mini DV tapes that need recording and editing

[Dave]

I have around 4500 piccies on my PC but have only printed around 20 to stick on the wall.

[trevperks]

Hi all, I have my pics printed at the supermarket ( Fuji printer ). works out at about 7p a pic if you can wait for a special offer. I always back up my pics on 2 disks, if you only have them on hard drive, backup now

[Paulie-W]

Originally Posted by Daerve

I have around 4500 piccies on my PC but have only printed around 20 to stick on the wall.

I hope for your sake you don`t lose your hard drive

[KJ Palmer]

They're mostly sitting on SD cards and CD-R's, and viewed using the PC or DVD player. Been meaning to get a dedicated printer one day, maybe when I take something worth printing...

[Tejstar]

I have loads on the hard drive. However, with the recent birth of our first child the wife keeps nagging me to start to get them printed!

[Gadget Daddy]

i have 1000s and 1000s and 1000s sat on my drive, have only self printed a few and tried photobox once.

Backup at least once a week using DVD RWs rotating 5 sessions of backup disks

Pete

[hottstuff]

Originally Posted by Tejstar

I have loads on the hard drive. However, with the recent birth of our first child the wife keeps nagging me to start to get them printed!

Same here.

[Badger0-0]

Interesting replies, IMO.

I'd suggest someone runs a poll asking if printing supplies are a total rip off.

What with £30 cartridges and paper costing a fortune, I have to ask what's the point printing?

Bang it on a CD and view via a big telly has to be the best option, IMO.

And let's face it, if a photo is stuck on the wall, how often do you really look at it?

[mikim]

I must have about 300Gig of pictures now.. some of which make it onto print via PShop and a rather good Canon photo printer.

Tried all the other methods too: online, specialist printing, and various other shop based services, and we still prefer the printer at home. For the quality you can achieve, and the cost associated, it is by far the best solution.

[pixelpixel]

Mostly on the hard drive, have tried printing via my old old printer and via some online stores.

I just don't have the time to run a few 100 images off, then you get into how do you store them!

[Grand Dizzy]

I don't print any photos.

I've never seen the point in printing photos when you can look at them on screen. A printed photo is nowhere near as good quality as the original. It uses additive colours (CMYK), with a restricted gamut, so you can't get vivid oranges, greens, blues etc. And the photo is not even illuminated so you don't get any sense of light. And there's far less contrast on paper than on screen. And far less colour resolution.

The only advantage of a photo is you can take it anywhere, but when you're showing people your photos, you tend to be at home, sat down and never too far away from a screen. So why not use a screen? And if you use, say, a 50" TV, you feel a lot more immersed in the scene than if you're looking down at a piece of paper.

IMHO, printing photos is just a throwback to the days before we had hard drives.

[n0bby]

I print my digital photos all the time. I use an A3 Epson 2100, printing on Epson Archival Matte paper. And I've replaced the incredibly uneconomic ink cartridges with a Lyson Continuous Ink System (in itself a pricey initial outlay of £500, but well worth the investment if you're going to print a lot of images).

And although it's true that the screen gives photos a luminosity and saturation that you don't get in a print, for me a good print is still the most satisfying end result to the process of photography and image-making.

And if you're lucky, people might buy some of your prints - and the whole process then makes better financial sense too!

[Tejstar]

The main reason why I would print off some of my photos would be to place in photo albums. A more personal way of showing photos to family than a slideshow on a tv imo.

[shoehorn]

Originally Posted by Tejstar

The main reason why I would print off some of my photos would be to place in photo albums. A more personal way of showing photos to family than a slideshow on a tv imo.

Exactly what we have done with ours - it much more personal looking through a photo album - although at one point we had >5000 to "sift" through before printing ! Although now that we're up to speed, we sift and print quickly !

[cuzzy]

Most of mine are also on my comp (backed up) only ever print off really good pics, mainly to give to other people.