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Creating Prints from Your Images

Printers have come a long way. Back when I started printing my own images, printer ink cartridges had three inks. Then printers graduated to cartridges with six inks. Now the really good printers have as many as 12 cartridges that enable you to print stunning color as well as black-and-white prints. You can also get prints made at a wide variety of sources, from your local drugstore or supermarket to online printers that specialize in creating beautiful prints in sizes from 4 x 6 inches to as large as 30 x 20 inches.

Your camera has an 18-megapixel (MP) capture, which means you can create very large prints. In this chapter, I explore the wonderful world of printing the images you capture in your SL1/100D.

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Deciding to Print at Home or Go to a Printer

Modern photo-quality printers are a wonderful thing. They print rich, wonderful colors with crisp delineation among them. But good photo-quality printers don't come cheap, and neither do the ink cartridges. Modern ...

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