Is "print" obsolete in digital age. who needs paper any longer in digital age.?

Question

Is "print" obsolete in digital age. who needs paper any longer in digital age.?

Answer 1

Sure people still make prints. It's nice to look at an album when the electricity goes out... or when you want to take the album with you somewhere.

Answer 2

Without prints, your digitally stored memories have a good chance of being lost forever. If all your precious photos are stored on your hard drive and it crashes they're gone. If you've backed them up on DVDs, what do you do with them when a new storage medium renders them obsolete? I doubt you're old enough to remember the 5.25 "floppy" which was once the standard and was replaced by the 3.25 "floppy" which was replaced by the CD which was replaced by the DVD. Who can say that a DVD produced in July 0f 2008 will be readable by any method in July of 2018, much less 2108? Plus, even the best DVD deteriorates over time depending on how its stored.

A print from a digital file, done on archival paper with archival inks, should last 100 years if stored properly.

If you're really serious about preserving your best pictures, have them professionally printed and store them in archival quality albums in a cool, dry place. Think how sad it will be if your descendants have no photographic record of you.

Answer 3

I do.  I like reading paper better than off of a screen.  Maybe I'm just weird....

Answer 4

Paper is a proven archive format. Digital formats have already changed, and some are obsolete and no longer readable on computers. As more changes are made in digital formats, what other files will become useless wastes of space? Besides, looking at computer screens and TVs for long periods of time can hurt your eyes and give some people headaches.