Printers & Scanners

As a professional photographer, you have many options for printing the photos you shoot. The kind of printer you choose is based not only on the type of photos you make and who your clients are, but on how you want to present your work and what style of personal promotion interests you.

With much of photography’s attention being devoted to the sole creation of the image, and more recently the virtual and instant sharing of those images, the art and practice of physically producing prints is becoming less of a requirement than in the past. This scarcity of physical prints does have immense benefits, though, as it is still the best and most revered method of actually owning a photograph.

When you're looking for a gift for someone less technologically inclined than yourself, you might find that choosing the right gift can be tough. How technologically disinclined are they? Are we talking just a little behind the times? A generation behind the iPad? Still using eight-track tapes?

Do you need ideas for some awesome holiday gift ideas for students? When you cornered them and asked what they wanted, did you draw a blank? Perhaps they offered to send you a list of gift ideas later, when something came to mind. In the likely event that the list never arrived, we’ve compiled that list of student-friendly suggestions for you.

Since the workflow concerning the primary use of digital cameras differs greatly from traditional film methodologies, new technologies exist to greater benefit this rapidly changing and evolving means of image production. With film-based photography, keeping an archive of your work meant physical, archival storage and required space and hands-on working means.

The Ion iPics 2 Go Scanner enables high-resolution picture scanning from your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S. It works with 35mm negatives and slides as well as 3 x 5- and 4 x 6-inch pictures.

Whether you’re a wedding photographer, wedding planner, or the lucky couple who will be tying the knot, an Apple iPad 2, new iPad, or one of the many Android tablet PCs can be very helpful when you’re preparing for a wedding. 

Some photographers prefer to use a printing service over printing their own photos. But a high quality photo printer is a worthwhile investment that can add to your revenue stream while enabling you to really tailor your prints to each wedding event. In this six-minute video, Mia McCormick highlights several printers, along with some thoughts on choosing the right paper.

There’s an ever-growing need for a faster, more mobile means to get work done on the road or out in the field. That’s why the Brother PocketJet 6 Plus Bluetooth Mobile Printer warrants a closer look.

While digital photography and the multiple screens at our disposal have pushed printing to the realm of afterthought, weddings continue the tradition of documenting pictures on paper.

If you began your love affair with photography back in the days of film, raise your hand. OK. Now raise your hand if you still have a darkroom in which you still print your slides and negatives. I thought so*.

It’s no secret that you get more bang for the buck with a network printer, but sharing has been mainly limited to computer users. Now, anyone who carries an iOS or Android smartphone or tablet can print wirelessly to an increasing number of Wi-Fi enabled printers. 

Canon has announced three new PIXMA All-In-One (AIO) office printers, the MX372, MX432 and MX512. These new AIO units can print, copy, scan and fax, and models with wireless connectivity support mobile printing from compatible Apple and Android smart phones and tablets using the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint mobile app.

In a bid to reach the intended audiences of its popular GALERIE inkjet media lineup more efficiently, Ilford has introduced a new tier system and a new name to go along with it.

Today’s students need a lot more than spiral-bound notebooks and pencils to make the grade. Everything revolves around computers and the Internet; and papers have to be created in a program and printed from a computer—pen and ink was the way your parents wrote for their classes.

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