Tips

By design, most printers will indicate when ink levels begin running low – often when there is 20% or more of the ink remaining. So it’s wise to continue to print until the printer indicates the cartridge can no longer be used. Some printers will stop printing at this point to prevent the print head drying out (which will cause damage). Depleted cartridges should always be changed straight away.

Photographers today have many ways to display and share their digital photos. Which ones you use will depend on your taste, level of expertise with particular technologies and the ways in which you would like to present your images.

How do you know when cartridges in your inkjet printer are really empty? Strangely enough, it’s not when the printer driver tells you to change cartridges because, for most inkjet printers, between 10% and 25% of the ink still remains in the cartridge – and usable – when the first ‘out-of-ink’ warning appears.

Most photographers will know of one or more companies that can print and bind customers’ photos into photo books (a Google search on Photo Books yields at least 10 pages of local suppliers).

Once you’ve mastered the basics of image editing you can move on to explore the tools that serious photographers use to correct minor flaws in images before printing them or posting them on websites. The most useful tools are those for selective adjustment of brightness, contrast and colours.

recently reviewed the new Epson Pro 3800 A2 format, eight-colour inkjet printer. Who would have thought just two years ago that for around the same cost as a half-way decent black and white darkroom, we could purchase a printer with which we can, with a few mouse clicks, produce truly extraordinary, full-colour 42 x 60cm poster prints at home? Let alone have sub-$1000 cameras which can do justice to that size of enlargement!