Tips for Printing Great Photos

Are you tired of trying printing your pictures but never get good results? Maybe you aren't doing it correctly. Most of the thermal-dye and inkjet printers today can print photos at drugstore quality. One of the best advantages of digital photography is that you can print your photos at home. You can start by uploading files to a website and take them to your local store to take a print out, inkjets today can print photos as good as drugstore prints. Its good to know about a few basics before starting.

You can now easily improve your picture

Printing your picture gives you the opportunity to alter the results- from brightness to contrast to photo editing. Even if you don't edit the photos, printing will let you print whenever you want to. Printing photos is an easy task if you know how to operate a computer.

Printing without a computer

If you merely want to print your photos without any edit, the easiest way is to print them directly- either from a memory card, USB memory or a camera.

·         Direct printing from a camera

If your camera and printer both offer PictBridge, the easy way is to connect the camera to the printer and print from the camera.  Some of the printers also print directly from the camera, but PictBridge is the industry standard.

·         Direct printing with Bluetooth

It is always more convenient to connect the camera to the printer by Bluetooth. Some inkjets also have the Bluetooth built-in. The specifics for the establishment of Bluetooth connection vary from one combination of the printer to another. Once connected, the steps for printing are the same as for printing over a USB.

·         Direct printing from memory cards

Rather than dealing with cables and Bluetooth, people find it easier to print directly from a memory card. Just remove the card from the camera and slide it to an appropriate slot on the printer. To print from the SD card, first, ensure that the printer supports the particular card format. Printers tend to lack slots for some of the smaller memory card formats like microS.

·         Direct printing from USB memory keys

Printing from USB memory keys is a natural outgrowth of direct printing from cameras and memory cards. There are a few printers that can print directly from USB keys without being able to write straight from the memory cards. 

Printing with a computer: Direct printing is usually the best and easiest way to print high-quality photos, and it is straightforward to access too. Take full advantage of the photo printing features too.

“Charlie Noah is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2002. As a technical expert, David Smith has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.”