IS DO-IT-YOURSELF PHOTO PRINTING ON THE WAY OUT? That’s what this report suggests.

I find that I print a lot of family snapshots at Walgreen’s now, because it’s easier to stick my memory chip into their machine, press “go” and come back to pick up the massive stack of prints later. On the other hand, I tend to print pictures I really care about at home, because I can tweak them in Photoshop, etc. (I tend to do my fancy enlarged photos — 11×14 or 20×30 — via ExposureManager, whose results are good, and whose prices are low).

Given that home printers are dirt cheap — I have this one, and it was $199, though I’d kind of like this one — I suspect that home printing will never be replaced, but that lots of people will follow a similar pattern.

And yes, I know I’ve been neglecting digital photography in my blogging lately, not least because I’ve been too busy to do much photography on my own. I’ll try to do better in the future.