Comment by brador

Comment by brador a day ago

7 replies

Photo printer in the second study anyone can connect to and a 100+ stack of photo paper and some photo album holders. Done.

I lose no sleep.

The funnest part of coming home is what everyone prints when we get back.

deltarholamda 17 hours ago

Agree with this strongly. It's nice to have thousands of photos, but if what you're trying to do is preserve memories, you do that best by interacting with the photos.

Choosing the photos to include, plus doing the scrapbooking bits to decorate the photos, and including all the bits and bobs you might have acquired from whatever even you're memorializing, this locks the memories in far better than a carefully architected storage system that, in the end, is just a giant wad of binary data.

This goes double (or triple) when you have young children.

By all means maintain some kind of digital storage, but make your primary physical.

code_biologist a day ago

Lovely idea. You got a photo printer model you like? I've been meaning to get a photo printer, but I'm scarred by experiences with inkjets back in the day.

  • pbalau 17 hours ago

    If you are ok with 6x4 prints, postcard size, then canon selphy cp1500 might do it.

    It doesn't do great with bw photos, but colour pictures are good enough.

  • hypercube33 21 hours ago

    If they are printing 100 or more prints a month even they are probably absolutely fine - inkjets die when not used because ink dries on the jets or other places.

9x39 11 hours ago

I use Google Photos, Apple Photos, and also print to Walmart through the excellent workflow Google Photos has setup. Obviously there has to be a printer in your town.

Make an album, print to Walmart on their pro printer, grab it a little later for a few bucks.

burnt-resistor 19 hours ago

What kind of photo printer technology? Inkjet is expensive and fades. Dye sub and laser are usually better.