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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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For those hoarding images online, do you have any plans to print them out? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If so, how would you go about it?

Most people on here are interested in digitizing photos by scanning them, but what about the other way around? Is paper a more reliable way to store images than the cloud/drives? Or do you have too many images/photos?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

When I get around to it I will have certain images printed out properly on optical paper.

This is the same technology used to make prints from negatives, the paper can be exposed to the negative or a digital image can be printed to it using a laser.

Fuji and Ilford offer it as archival type of printing. I'm sure many others do.

People wanting to print at home using inkjet can use archival paper and inks but I gave up inkjet years ago because unless you actually print then it just dries up.

I have a colour laser instead but I'd not consider that photo quality.

If you want the best archival quality look for companies that use Fuji's Crystal Archive paper. Same kind of stuff used with negatives thus same multi-decade stability.