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Winter 2002, Volume IV, Issue 1, Page 5 |
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(Note: Links valid at time of first publication may not be valid today.) Happy New Year Digital Photography Reference Winter Olympics (Feb. 8-24) International Olympic Committee Monthly Tools PC
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Printing Photos PrintersNow that you have your pictures just the way you want them it is time to print your masterpieces. Color printers have been available for a number of years but until recently printing high quality prints to match film developing has been costly. There are many good color printer manufactures including: Paper TypeThe most important detail to improve your print output is to use photo paper and change the printer setting accordingly. Most people do not realize this; you have to manually change the printer settings whenever you use photo paper. With out telling the printer that you have photo paper in it, the printer will think it is printing on plain paper and use a lower print quality setting. This is because plain paper can not absorb as much ink as photo paper can. When you tell the printer that you are printing on photo paper it will use more ink to produce a higher quality print. Here is how you tell your printer what kind of paper you are printing on:
Printing Multiple Pictures On A PageOne question I am often asked is how to print more than one picture per page. Some image editing software programs as well as some printers will let you print more than one picture per page. Photo papers come in all different sizes and sometimes you will want to print two or three 4 x 6 prints per page. You will have to look around to see if your image editing software or the printer software allows for this. Look under the File menu for Printer Setup, Printer Properties or Page Setup. Every software does it differently so look around for the setting. Tip: Every software program has a Help menu and in the drop down list is usually a Contents and Index section. If you are not sure whether your software prints mulitple pictures per page click on the Help menu and search the contents for "printing". If your image editing or printer software does not print more than one picture per page then you can use a desktop publishing program like Microsoft Publisher. Publisher lets you place any number of pictures on a page. Another alternative is to download Kodak's EasyShare software. This software can be used with any color printer to print more than one picture per page. If you would rather not print your own digital pictures then you will want to use an online service to print them for you. Click next to read how. Page 5 of 6 |
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