Just print them out already.


Five or six years ago I perhaps still had an excuse for not preparing physical copies of photographs. The commercial services that offered this were still a bit expensive, and (I'm only guessing, since I avoided doing this) the process was a bit complicated. Today, it's incredibly easy (in addition to which, there was a clear demand). We can email our photos to the printer and either pick them up or have them delivered to us, such that if I want to avoid doing this, I'm going to have to work much harder at finding an excuse.

Actually, it's become so easy to get print copies of photographs in this way that there's hardly any excuse to print them at home. The printer manufacturers probably still hope that we'll do this, but it's probably cheaper to send them off for "developing", and, considering the likelihood that one particular shade of ink will run out on us just when we need it, considerably cheaper as well. This may be the reason that the price of printers continue to go down - only in that way do the printer manufacturers have any chance of keeping us from abandoning them altogether.



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