No, this isn’t a post about legal stuff (although yes, you should get all that in print)–this is about printing your work. The tangible is simply better and I encourage prints whenever possible. Cheap prints at the very least, even if chucked into a box for years and ignored, will still be there when technology shifts and you can’t access your digital files on that weird old media any more (Zip drives, anyone?). We’d never have discovered Vivian Maier, for example, were it not for boxes of tangible stuff she stored away (I believe they were negatives, but still).
Speaking of her, the doc Finding Vivian Maier is going to be on Showtime on January 8.
Anyway, print your work, if only for you and your legacy. However, if you’d like some nice tangible stuff to show your work, maybe for a promo or client gifts, check out Artifact Uprising. Not inexpensive, but some fabulous products.