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he primary uses of photographs have evolved over the years to include much more than simply recording history, and new digital technology offers even more opportunities to share your images in unique ways.

A number of services have sprouted up over the last couple of years that allow you to send your digital or scanned photos over the Internet to a companies that will print them, frame them, put them on coffee mugs, calendars, T-shirts, and the list goes on...

Two companies provide a marketplace for selling your works, too. Cafe Press and Zazzle both offer services of printing and imprinting of your digital files and they offer a program for marketing your products. Cafe Press sets a base price and allows you to mark it up and keep the difference. Zazzle sets the selling price and pays you a commission on sales. The more powerful aspect of both programs is the ability to link to the pages about your products from your own web site.

Still other services offer printing of digital files without the extensive marketing back-end provided by Cafe Press and Zazzle. One such service is Print On Click. They offer the exotic "Gic'cli" art prints -- your images printed on canvas and stretched on a wood frame. Quite impressive!

You'll definitely want to keep a look out for new services, as they seem to be popping up at a very rapid pace. If you know of any services that might be helpful to our site visitors, please e-mail us. Thanks.