We have often discussed the importance of print and how an image is incomplete unless you hold it in your hands. So, if you take the profession seriously, we have some good news for you. Canon has just updated one of its best-selling printers, the imagePROGRAF PRO-1000, almost after a decade.
I remember hearing stories from other photographers about the magic of watching their print come to life in the darkroom. Even though I've never darkroom printed, I still get pretty excited when a print of mine comes out of my Canon printer.
Epson introduced the new SureColor P5370 photo printer, a 17-inch professional-level inkjet printer that promises an improved printhead, new ink set with an extended color gamut in dark blue hues, and an advanced print engine. [Read More]
I've looked around. Of any significant photography publication, we're one of the few that actually still cares about and reviews printers actively. Standard consumer printers are exhausting. They can scan, fax, email, print, cook for you (not really), etc.
Intrepid has announced a versatile darkroom enlarger that the company says is the most compact ever made. It is designed to make prints from both color and black and white film (from 35mm up to 6×9) without the need for filters.
We're huge fans of printing here at The Phoblographer. We believe that every photographer should be printing their images instead of just viewing them in digital form. Thankfully, the printer market is alive and well, and there are many options on the market.
A fact of life is that most people don't print their photos correctly or even in the best way. We recently had an email asking about this. Believe it or not, we print images monthly for our reviews.
When I started freelancing as a professional photographer, I knew I had to put together a printed portfolio. Unfortunately, I found it very hard to find useful resources on the Internet on how to actually do this.
Photographer Calvin Grier is a master of the alternative photography process known as carbon transfer printing, but for the past few months, he has been taking things to a new level. Grier is creating full color photographic prints using dirt.
While color management is a crucial part of today’s professional photography workflow, getting the colors right all the way to prints can be challenging. For this, X-Rite just dropped the third generation of the i1Photo Pro 3 spectrophotometer, redesigned to be more accurate, reliable, and twice as fast than its predecessor.
Printed photos are perhaps the most fantastic way for folks to really understand the art of photography. Most folks aren't printing enough, and that's because digital screens have taken over our lives.
Finally thinking of getting some prints of your best snaps? Not too long ago, we shared a photography cheat sheet showing how big you can print your digital photo based on the resolution of your camera.
There is nothing better than seeing your images in print. While looking at your work on a computer, or sharing it on social media is nice, having a physical copy of your work will give a feeling unlike any other.
If you're yet to get your best photos printed, it's never too late to get started. We can never stress enough how important and rewarding it is to see your work on print. A great quality print would not only be the final step in creating great work, but will elevate it into a form that everyone can readily look at and admire.
In the past year, we started doing something that most other photographers don't do with images at ISO 1600 and above: we started printing. Printing is arguably the absolute best thing that we can do when it comes to making images.
Fujifilm is arguably in one of the best positions to push the idea of the printed photograph onto a modern audiences, perhaps even more so than Canon. Go to almost any lab or printing service in America and they're most likely using Fujifilm's color paper.
There are quite a few unusual photo printing ideas that have emerged over the years, but photographer Lawrence Sumulong‘s latest technique is one of the sweetest we’ve seen — literally.
It’s not everyday that company’s launch new printers these days, let alone new large format printers, but that is exactly what HP (Hewlett Packard) has done with their new DesignJet Z Printer series.
Been itching to learn how to make cyanotype images? Sure, YouTube holds plenty of learning resources for you. We even shared a tutorial that can help you learn the ropes of this traditional process right at the comfort of your own home. But what if you want to go up one level and make big prints?
Lots of photographers have trusted MOO for years when it comes to business cards. And now the company just got a whole lot cooler. They just announced Cotton business cards. Yes, Cotton. If you're a photographer who prints often, then this isn't only exciting but also very familiar.
This post is short, sweet and to the point: if you want to never stop being dominated by creative ruts as a photographer the best thing that you can possibly do for yourself is to surround yourself in positivity and creative energy.
I entered the world of photography when digital cameras where already on the rise, and as a result, I learned photography on digital. That being said, I am a sucker for anything analog… the sensation of using real organic materials to produce photographs excites me.
Two longtime stalwarts of the film photography industry, Fujifilm and Eastman Kodak, are poised to battle it out in the courts as Fujifilm Corporation filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Eastman Kodak Company in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. [Read More]
Audience: a broad term, of course. Evokes all kinds of responses. Since this is a photoblog I am referencing the audience that sees our work. In this very odd and terrible of times, I find that having no audience for my photographs is very difficult.
The printer company Citizen has just released a new CY-02 printer to its line-up. This could be the perfect dye sublimation photo printer for those needing to produce on-demand prints for clients.
If you're one of the newer breed of photographers who started out in digital and only afterward picked up analog film photography, then you're also probably a photographer that has never had an image of theirs printed.
File this under "products lost in the shuffle during the chaos of CES." During the annual electronics trade show, HP announced a new member of its Sprocket family, the HP Sprocket Photobooth. [Read More]
Mixbook, an online photo book service, has updated its app with the ability to organize photos in a camera roll "based on the story they tell" using machine learning. [Read More]
When I attempt to make a great photographic print, what do I look for? What process do I go through to make the image as perfect as possible? I have spent 40 years making my exhibition-quality Cibachrome prints and I’d like to explain what goes into making a superlative photographic print. What really brings a […]
Ilford recently released a popular 8-minute video on how to process black-and-white film yourself, and now the film company is back again with another helpful crash course on how to make a black-and-white print in a darkroom.
Amazon recently debuted it’s Amazon Prints service, the company’s unique take on photo printing. The service undercuts it’s rivals by offering high quality printing at an affordable price and is available immediately to customers who utilize their Amazon Drive cloud storage service.