Photographic printing

Photographic printing is the process of producing a final image for viewing, usually on sensitized paper from a previously prepared photographic negative. The process consists of three major steps, performed in a photographic darkroom or within an automated photo printing machine:

1. Exposure of the image onto the sensitized paper using a contact printer or enlarger\n# Development of the latent image through a multistep chemical immersion process.\n# Texturing and drying of the final print.

See also

• List of photographic processes\n* Film developing\n* Gelatin-silver process\n* Enlarger\n* Contact print