I'm also excited to hear how it turns out! We got a Sony a6700 with a Sigma 18-50 lens about a year ago and take it on hikes and to family events and definitely want to get pictures printed and framed but editing is an exercise in patience. Are you editing? If so, what does that process look like? Plus looking at printing options is overwhelming there are so many options but I haven't done the research to fully understand the differences in all of them, and I struggle to mentally picture the differences as well.
What's funny is we used to work in Photoshop, but then Photoshop became too tiresome for photos. So now you're supposed to work in Lightroom, but Lightroom blew away all of its useful library functions. It's also inordinately expensive to buy, so you're supposed to rent it with Creative Cloud for $60 a month which comes with all the other Adobe software you'll never use. Play around with Skylum Luminar. It's the easy button. I don't like its management suite as much as I liked, say, Lightroom circa 2009 but fuckin' hell that was 16 years ago. I haven't touched it in five or six years but it's basically all of Lightroom's "easy buttons" without the super-tedious Adobe shit. Photo printing comes down to how many colors of ink you use and how nice your paper is and there really aren't any pro printers hotter than the stuff you can buy at the camera store. It's all giant galumphing inkjets and has been since about 2004. If you're printing smaller than 8x10 your desktop inkjet and photo paper will be indistinguishable from professional prints and odds are good your easiest source of bigger stuff is Costco. If not there are dozens of online companies who will do large format or canvas or whatever for a nominal price. This shit has been sorted for decades and i've seen nothing to upset the apple cart in twenty years of looking. Keep in mind that anything over 8x10 is going to be viewed from arm's length at least and 300 DPI is all anyone has ever printed at. If you really wanna get fancy with it it comes down to calibration and the difference between all the online outfits is how well and how often they calibrate their shit. Here's the rule of thumb from the dark ages: an amateur should expect to get ONE good photo out of a roll of 24 exposures. A professional can expect to get three or four. What that should tell you is that your first move is to DISCARD 95% of what you've taken and tweak the rest. So - go out for a hike, take 50 photos, find the TWO that are really cool and spend 10-15 minutes polishing them. Show those off. Nobody wants to see you scroll through fifteen photos of people walking. A year from now that hike will be memorable because of one photo and it might not be the one you expect. I shot fifteen rolls of photos when I took my wife to Kauai the first time. I got a lot of great shots? But there's maybe ten that I still show off.