What's up everybody? Welcome back to the art of photography. My name is Ted Forbes and in this video I want to talk about printing and I have several projects coming up over the next two months that will involve some different kinds of printing techniques and those are things that I want to cover on the show so I want to look at digital inkjet printing which we're going to talk about today and we're also going to be looking at some wet darkroom techniques

coming up as well and I think the best place to start is I want to talk about printing overall and kind of the modern approach to it.

And printing is really interesting because it's something that most photographers have moved away from a great deal.

And it makes sense because we live in the age

of social media where we can share our images digitally to a large number of people

and we never print them and there's nothing wrong with that in fact I think that there's a lot of things that are really beneficial and make it easier to share your work than it's ever been. But I think one of the results is I think most photographers do not print their work very often. And I think printing your work at least now and then is a great

discipline to get into. For several reasons, I think when we are completely in a digital

environment all the time and our images live in

light room and we go work on them, we're never really going towards a

finished solution to something and particularly if you're in the fine art world

and you look at the way galleries work and museum works, they're all still print-based.

And there's something about that though that I think is very legitimate.

Turning your work into a print turns it into an object and it's something you can hold, it's something there's an addition of, it's something that you could display or put on your wall or have a show with, and there's just a mindset that goes into that when you're looking at really finalizing an image and going that extra mile to go all the way to complete it that I think is really important and I think that's something that a lot of people miss out on.

So that's why I want to do some episodes here on printing.

Today I want to show you the inkjet printer that I'm using and we're going to talk about

digital inkjet printing.

And you know, I'm of a different mindset in some ways because for a long time, I mean,

digital technology has come a long way now and

really since you know if you look back around 2000 or so I remember when I bought my

first inkjet printer for me it was very frustrating to do black and white work on and I love to do a lot of black and white and a lot of my work is based in black and white and that was the biggest frustration point for me was being able to get the quality of image that I wanted from an inkjet printer.

And a lot of those frustrations actually led me.

That's why I still have a dark room today

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