Do you print your images?

[sockeyed]

I'm curious as to how many of you actually makes print of your images? In this age of digi-everything, I'm sure that the huge majority of photos taken never exist beyond the realm of pixels stored on a hard drive or uploaded to sites like flickr. I'll admit, most of mine probably won't exist as prints (although many are negatives, so at least they're tangible), but every few months I will create a CD of either scanned negs or digital files and take it down to a minilab and get prints. Prints are satisfying - they exist without electricity, I can show them to folks, they're archival, and I can give them to friends or people I photographed. In fact, in this age of digital photography, people are absolutely delighted when I hand them over a set of prints. I did this in Angkor, Cambodia this fall, handing out pictures taken a year earlier.

And for those of you who do make prints - do you put them in albums? Toss them in a shoe box? Print photobooks using services like Blurb or Qoop?

 

[feenej]

I print and frame my prints on a regular basis. Imagine that.

 

[bsdunek]

I make prints. B&W done in my darkroom, color sent out. I do get the CD with my color photos but still like prints. I guess I think it's silly to use film if you're only going to use it on the computer/internet, etc. You're just doing a conversion to get what a digital camera does directly.
I do use a digicam for my wife's art photos/catalog, as most of those go on her web site. We do make prints so she can carry a mini-catalog in her purse, or send them to galleries that are interested in her work.
Just IMHO.😎

 

[rich815]

I print my good ones.

Or print snaps of an occasion should people want them.

 

[sockeyed]

I wish that I still had a B&W darkroom. Nothing looks better than good wet prints.

 

[bhop73]

I print the ones I really like on my inkjet printer and put them in a small album. If I REALLY like one, I might print it and hang it on my wall.

 

[Pherdinand]

i should start wet printing i guess.
I do print some of my stuff. Just today i received a number of prints - majority are black and whites of my niece that i plan to send home to my parents. However, i was always glad with the quality of the print sho where i got it from but this time, thay all have a greenish tint. 🙁
The same type of images from the same place, but a previous batch, are all nice deep blacks...These are greenish-cyan tinted.
Shame.

And they are not exactly cheap, at 60 eurocents for a 13x18 print.

edit: 13x18 cm, that is. Equals about 5x7".

 

[sockeyed]

Hmm, prints are quite inexpensive here in Vancouver - $0.15 for a 4 x 6' print, and $2-3 for an 8x10. This is why I can't justify printing at home on an inkjet.

 

[BigSteveG]

My traditional wet darkroom is pretty complete now. I spend a few hours in it 2-3 times a month experimenting. Though ';m not catching on to the printing of LF as fast as I'd like. I also want to start making contact prints and play w/ the carbon printing process. Printing my own work is highly satisfying....especially when I do it right!!

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

I inkjet print at home for local people.

If I'm feeling lazy the minilab neighbor lady will do it for free for me as a good customer.

At any one time my 'Twelve Best' are on the wall.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

I'm thinking maybe that once a year, I should compile all my favorites and get them printed as a one-off book from Lulu.com.