Craft & Vision have just released their newest eBook, Making the Print: Printing Techniques for the Digital Photographer. Written by photographer Martin Bailey it’s a complete guide to printing your digital images at home on an inkjet printer.

Anyone who used an early inkjet printer is probably as amazed as I am at the print quality you can get from the latest inkjet printers. I remember using an Epson Stylus Photo 700 around 12 years ago – photographers talk about the ‘magic of the darkroom’ but for me this was a different kind of magic, the type where you can press a button and after a few minutes a near perfect print emerges from the printer. Maybe I’m just easily impressed (I grew up with dot matrix printers at a time when most of them didn’t even print in colour).

I’ve never missed printing in the darkroom. The best thing for me about inkjet printers is that you can do all your image manipulation (including dodging and burning) on the screen, then print the image afterwards. Again and again, if you want. In the darkroom, you have to do all the dodging and burning for every print.

Making the Print

Despite the advances in inkjet technology since the early promise of that Epson printer, inkjet printing isn’t as easy as perhaps it should be. That’s where Making the Print comes in. Martin’s an experienced photographer and printer, and he’s written a practical, readable eBook that guides you through the process of making your first inkjet print, then goes into more detail regarding important to know stuff such as monitor calibration and colour management. If you’ve ever wondered which inkjet printer to buy, which printing papers to use or what printer profiles are all about, the answers are in here. There are also sections on printing on and framing canvas, and preparing exhibition quality prints.

Special offer on PDFs

For the next four days only, use the promotional code PRINT4 when you checkout to buy the PDF version of Making the Print for only $4 OR use the code PRINT20 to get 20% off when you buy five or more PDF eBooks from the Craft & Vision collection. These codes expire at 11:59pm PST January 21, 2012.

Making the Print gallery

Here are some spreads from the eBook: