I print. I used to print in a wet darkroom, now in my home office with my Canon 9500. I used to share printed images with other photographers. Little get togethers, snacks, coffee and lots of photo talk. I soon realized the quality of my home prints were just a bit superior to the bog custom Costco, Walmart and Mpix.
Just like the wet darkroom, where I went through thousands of 8x10's as a neophyte learning the craft of photography. I had a similar learning curve with digital printing, but with the compter guiding my eye and hand there is much less waste.
I love printing and do not print enough. I find that printing ... holding an 8x10 or 13x19 completes the photographic experience and cycle for me. (And it makes for a very special one-of-a-kind gift, especially if you self-matte and frame.) It just seems seeing a print with the light reflecting off the surface, is more powerful and realistic than seeing an image as a light source (I do admit that a monitor viewed image does project a je ne sais quoi, but like a movie, it doesn't seem real.)
My point is that similar to image capturing, self-printing will take a bit of time and effort to master, the the trade-off (at least for me) is a completion and closure of the photographic experience.
Additionally, I print via a Desk Top Publishing program. And as I crop according to what I feel is a best display of the image, the DTP program allows for complete border manipulation. Typically, I use multiple borders on the same print. From the inside out I have the images, then a quarter inch black border, a thin one-eighth inch white border, then another black border making up any cropping differences in image to edge of paper. So I make extensive use of wide and thin borders to fill in the edge gaps of ... say ... a square print. This is usually done with custom mattes.
Gary