Longevity

In fifty or a hundred years time will we be using the same computer systems and storage devices and will they be compatable with the pictures we have stored digitally. A well made print, even an injet print could last upwards of 100 years and if printed on high quality archival paper maybe even 300+ years.

A Legacy

Would you like for people in the future to see, and maybe admire the pictures you have taken today. Printing is certainly one way of achieving that. The world changes all the time and the way we see and live changes also. The pictures we take today may have historical value tommorow but may be lost if they remain stored only in the digital realm, so printing them has value.

The Process

Print making can be done mainly in three ways.

Send away to a commercial processor and have them…