Photographic printer of the type employed for printing according to the monoline technique on photosensitive paper (18), the printer being fed from a wound roll (11) of continuous photosensitive paper (18) and comprising an assembly (12) for the feeding and positioning of the paper (18), a printing device (13) and shearing means (14), the feeding and positioning assembly (12) comprising a first pair of opposed loading rollers (15a, 15b) and a second pair of opposed drawing rollers (16a, 16b) defining a plane of running (19) of the photosensitive paper (18), at least the second pair of drawing rollers (16a, 16b) being at least momentarily actuatable independently step-by-step and being capable of two-way motion, a buffer-stock chamber (20) being included in an intermediate position between the pairs of rollers (15a, 15b, 16a, 16b) and being located in cooperation with the plane of running (19) of the paper (18), the entry of the buffer-stock chamber (20) cooperating at least momentarily with means (21) supporting the paper (18).
Digital-printing method performed with the above photographic printer (10) and comprising a preliminary step of loading the paper (18) and a printing step, the printing step including the steps of:

feeding of the paper (18) by means of the first pair of loading rollers (15a, 15b) and by the second pair of drawing rollers (16a, 16b) along a segment equal to the length of the photograph to be printed;
clamping of the first pair of loading rollers (15a, 15b);
backward drawing of the paper (18) by the second pair of drawing rollers (16a, 16b) actuated with controlled steps and simultaneous printing by the printing device (13), the paper (18) being arranged in the buffer-stock chamber (20) according to a loop having a substantially U-shaped conformation due to the weight of the paper (18);
forward movement of the printed paper (18) and shearing thereof.