DIGITAL PHOTO PRINTING OPTIONS

Digital Photo Printing Options Using professional Photo Labs

The digital photo labs and digital photo printing options we source for our professional photo albums are of the highest standard. We prefer to work in Adobe RGB and outsource our printing to professional digital photo printing labs that use linearization monitoring methods to ensure high quality and consistency. Our digital flush mount albums are printed using Kodak Pegasus or Lambda digital photo printing.

The prints are dry mounted on either side of a cardboard leaf resulting in a thicker page . Although many professional photographers would already be familiar with the material options available for fush mount albums it is important to highlight to non professional that the quality of results using this digital photo printing option are remarkably like traditional photographs. In essence this type digital photo printing yields prints that are almost identical to traditional prints.

The look and feel of Pegasus or Lambda digital photo printing is remarkably like a traditional photograph because in both options the papers used are light sensitive photographic paper which are basically the same photo papers used in traditional photo printing. The digital photo printing option is performed using a chemical developing process just like traditional photo printing. The main difference between digital photo printing and traditional photo printing is that in the case of digital printing, an image is exposed by the printer via digital means on to light sensitive photographic paper, whilst traditional photo printing entails the use of a light source and a lens to focus the negative image contained on analogue 'film' or 'photographic negative' to on light sensitive photographic paper.

In both cases the light sensitive photo paper is processed using photo chemicals. If you are using our digital design services and wish to digitally print an album or wedding album using your own photo lab, we would recommend you use a professional lab that uses this type of digital photo printing process. Incidentally this type of photo printing is also what is recommended if you need to print digital image files back to prints. If your photographer has given you hi rez digital images on disk then this a good way to go when printing pictures for your wall portraits or reprints. There are of course many good online digital photo printing labs and services that you may want to consider.

Digital Photo Printing For digital photo books

The digital photo printing process we use for our digital books utilize true digital offset printing technology quite often known as 'On Demand' printing. The digital offset short run printing technology is of a professional standard used in color printing industry. Digital offset printing involves the use of coloured inks to produce images.

In our opinion the quality of this type of digital photo printing, although very good is not as high as that produced by photo printers such as the Kodak Pegasus or Lambda, however it is the most suitable form of digital photo printing for producing a true ( thinner page) digital photo book or coffee table book.