State-Of-The-Art Prints

Not so long ago, the photographic print was how everyone experienced photography. Before websites, smartphones and apps, shoeboxes with stacks of 4x6-inch photos of the family vacation were a household staple—I still have a few in the garage myself.

For the casual photographer who uses the medium as personal documentary rather than fine art, digital photography changed the way most images are shared, and the end of printing has been repeatedly foretold. But that hasn’t happened. Like Mark Twain’s famous quip, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” printing technology has experienced a renaissance as a result of digital technology.

Though the folks who use photography for utility may not be printing like they used to, for photographers with a capital “P”—those who use the