Need a digital printer

[GNICETRY]

Can someone give me some opinions or websites to look at. Not really looking for a stand-alone one (with the memory stick/card input). Just the best bang-for-the-buck printer that will go as large as 8x10's. Thanks!

 

[GNICETRY]

C'mon, there ought to be some computer wizs out there.

 

[GN One Day...]

Do you mean a printer for printing pictures from your digital camera, or some new kind of printer?

For printing our digi pic's, I use a Canon S900. Fairly new, I think it came out at the end of last year. Does an incredible job, only limited by our camera. Can't remember the number of inkjets it has, something crazy like 30,000. I think we paid $350 buying online vs. $399 at Best Buy. Probably could find it cheaper now, or it might already be replaced? It uses 6 individual inkjet cartridges. 2 Photo, black and the 2 standard colors. I really like this system from our old printer. Holds a good amount of ink, and you only replace what color you're low on, at about $10/ea. You can print a couple hundred 4x6's, not sure about 8.5x11 paper. (Haven't found any actual 8x10 paper). Comes with some good software too. Pretty fast for a home use inkjet for regular printing too.

HTH

 

[Jack Evers]

I like the Canon printers myself. I've got a S600 and it does a great job on color photos up to 8x10.

 

[BLACK6PACK]

I'm in charge of all the photography at my company. I deal with a lot of professional photographers, and do a lot of photo editing. If you want to keep it somewhat cheap and simple, look at the epson printers. 3 of the pro's I deal with send me the film and print outs of the photos from an epson inkjet. Add in epson photo paper and its unreal the quality you can get. I have an epson stylus 3000, but you can get a good epson printer for fairly cheep ...<$200

 

[xrunner123]

I'm happy with my Canon S820.

You may want to check online reviews.
Check out http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,109703,00.asp
It's a 5 months old, but you can get an idea.

 

[TType85]

Epson 825/925 or 900 the 825/925 has the card slots you don't need but will do killer prints up to 8.5x11 full bleed (edge to edge). They are 6 color printers. CcYMmK - Cyan, Light Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Light Magenta, Black

The canons do a nice job, but they use a composite black (all colors mixed to get black) instead of the black ink for photos even on their high end i950 and i9100. The Epson uses the black cart for photos, gives you a little bit better color.

Downside to the epson is the colors are in a single cartridge, but they are pretty cheap cartridges (~$22 for color ~$21 for black)
The canons use seperate color cartridges (~$12/ea * 6)

~$72 to refill the canon, ~$43 for the epson but its less ink. With just photos you will use the ink pretty evenly. The light colors go a bit quicker.

Also, don't be misled by the resolution. I printed the same 3.2mp digital picture on a canon i950, canon i470, epson 925, and hp Photosmart 7550. The canons have a 4800x1200 dpi while the epson has 5760x720. The epson puts out a superior print. Stay away from HP photo printers, they suck, color wasnt real good, no full bleed 8.5x11.

one other thing
ALWAYS USE THE RECOMENDED PAPER! Epson on Epson, HP on HP, Canon on Canon. You will get the best results that way.

 

[GN One Day...]

I don't know about the black on photo's, but there is, of course a black cartridge in the Canon. The black always looks good to me. As for using colors equally, I don't think so. I'm always glad to have seperate cartridges when I have to replace the yellow. I go through black and yellow about 2-3 times faster than cyan and magenta. They tend to run out at about the same time, but the yellow is usually in good shape. I rarely buy more than 2 at a time. The photo magenta and photo cyan really last a long time. I didn't expect that. I'd hate to throw out an entire ink cartridge just to replace the yellow that ran out. Just my .02, I'm sure they all have pro's and con's.

 

[xrunner123]

Originally posted by TType85 The canons do a nice job, but they use a composite black (all colors mixed to get black) instead of the black ink for photos even on their high end i950 and i9100. The Epson uses the black cart for photos, gives you a little bit better color.
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I have a separate black cart for my 820.

 

[TType85]

Originally posted by xrunner123
I have a separate black cart for my 820.

Yes, they all have a seperate black cart. They don't always use it when printing photos. On the canon the blacks never look true. You print a picture of a GN and it would be more of a very dark grey than black.

You would have to see the output of them at the same time of the same picture. I've done it, I sell with them every day......