Hey once again all,
I have a quick question for everyone.....What is the best photo printer on the market right now for my digital photos? I have a Compaq A1000 right now...and it just sucks at printing out photos. Anyways, I am looking to spend up to $500 for one that will print 8X10 photos. I have been looking around and I like the Olympus one that does not use ink cartridges...but it is pricy when you think that it only prints 50 photos till you need to change the cartridges!! And at $50 for cartridges and special paper, that is a bit steep. Anyways, personal experience or samples would be greatly apprecieated.
Thanks all,
Matthew
Best Photo Printer
Best Photo Printer
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cannon's have decent print quality and i believe their print cost/page is lower than that of epson and HP....
and don't fall for epson's "separate" ink tanks thing... you're still paying for the print head that is built into the cartridge which tends to clogs a lot (much more so than HP's carts) ... Cannon is the only printers where the "think tank" actually uses separate tanks and don't make u pay for print heads on carts cuz their carts don't have print heads...
my experience w/ HP photo printers have been very pleasant btw
and don't fall for epson's "separate" ink tanks thing... you're still paying for the print head that is built into the cartridge which tends to clogs a lot (much more so than HP's carts) ... Cannon is the only printers where the "think tank" actually uses separate tanks and don't make u pay for print heads on carts cuz their carts don't have print heads...
my experience w/ HP photo printers have been very pleasant btw
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My personal opinion:
I keep track on behalf of my GF who has occasional need to print high-quality stills from her video editing stuff. I bought her an Epson Photo 700 a couple years ago, as it was about the best in our limited price range. When it dies, I'm buying her another Epson. I've seen nothing to change my opinion that Epson produces the highest-quality photo prints from any affordable inkjet. In fact, I can't think of any reason to spend more than the price of a 785EPX on the next one, unless she decides she wants larger-format prints, in which case she gets a Photo 1280.
In the interest of honesty, I will mention that text quality does suffer by comparison to some other inkjets.
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I keep track on behalf of my GF who has occasional need to print high-quality stills from her video editing stuff. I bought her an Epson Photo 700 a couple years ago, as it was about the best in our limited price range. When it dies, I'm buying her another Epson. I've seen nothing to change my opinion that Epson produces the highest-quality photo prints from any affordable inkjet. In fact, I can't think of any reason to spend more than the price of a 785EPX on the next one, unless she decides she wants larger-format prints, in which case she gets a Photo 1280.
In the interest of honesty, I will mention that text quality does suffer by comparison to some other inkjets.
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For photo's Epsons do the best job, period. I also have the epson 700 I purchased at an Office Depot clearance for $70 2-3 years ago and it's still doing just fine thank you. I get the online generic $5 color print cartridges and the $2 b&w and have yet to have any problems. So my cost per print is pretty darn low.
However the newer epson's use a chip on the cartridge and because of that it means higher cost replacement ink and that is the whole idea. You can get generic cartridges but they are still around $15. I suggest to try seeing it you can find an older epson model like the 700 or even 880. But the 700 is epsons photo printer which uses 6 color while the others uses 4 color. 6 color is better for pics and you can see a difference, though it isn't huge.
Otherwise if you can't find an older epson then I'd suggest a newer canon or HP. I'd never get one with a chip on the cartridge just because I know they added that to try and make more off of the replacement cartridges so you'd have to buy only epson inks. But that's me.
Also see this thread for more ideas.
http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... adid=16820
However the newer epson's use a chip on the cartridge and because of that it means higher cost replacement ink and that is the whole idea. You can get generic cartridges but they are still around $15. I suggest to try seeing it you can find an older epson model like the 700 or even 880. But the 700 is epsons photo printer which uses 6 color while the others uses 4 color. 6 color is better for pics and you can see a difference, though it isn't huge.
Otherwise if you can't find an older epson then I'd suggest a newer canon or HP. I'd never get one with a chip on the cartridge just because I know they added that to try and make more off of the replacement cartridges so you'd have to buy only epson inks. But that's me.
Also see this thread for more ideas.
http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... adid=16820
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