ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the techniques required to produce prints that meet the photographer’s standards. Prints that is difficult or impossible to make in-house, like those requiring special techniques or equipment. More than twenty years into the era of digital photography, there are two primary types of printed photos: digital chromogenic prints and inkjet prints. Digital C-prints are made on silver-based photo papers, exactly the same type of paper used to create images from negative film in a chemical darkroom. Inkjet printers were not a mature technology for the purpose of photo reproduction and digital C-prints were the only choice for quality printed photographs. Inkjet “papers” are not necessary made of paper as we know it. Some are cotton-based, while others are cellulose, fiber, polyester, vinyl, canvas, etc. Some materials impact the look of the image: for example, when paper fibers form a texture on the surface, that texture will become part of the image.
