As the digital market heats up, expect the cost to make a photo quality print to drop. With inkjet paper, even the brightest, whitest of surface finishes can't deliver photo quality. True photo-quality inkjet paper has a special finish designed to absorb the inkjet dyes so that a photo quality print will result. On the low end of the scale there is a matte surface without gloss. At the higher end of the scale, there are glossy finish papers which can yield prints that resemble true photographs.
Removable Media Working with digital images is very memory intensive.
Your hard drive will quickly fill up with imagery in no time flat. The best solution to keep your hard drive from being overtaken with images is to transfer the images to removable media. The most popular removable media formats today are the ZIP and JAZZ drives from Iomega, and the super high-density floppy drives from Imation and Sony. The new 250MB ZIP drive can also read the older ZIP 100MB cartridges. Similarly, the JAZZ drive has evolved into a 2GB cartridge, with downward reading compatibility to the original 1GB JAZZ cartridges.