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1 Printing Techniques

There are various methods of printing your own photographs. We only address one method in detail – printing using inkjet printers. In this chapter, we take a glance at different printing methods and discuss which are good and why. Most are not recommended for fine art printing.

The special focus of this chapter – and the general focus of the entire book – is fine art printing, and our reader is assumed to be the ambitious amateur, as well as the professional photographer. There are many reasonably good books on prepress work and commercial printing of books, magazines, brochures, or posters using offset printing, silk-screen ...

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