Just about to buy a digicam.
Need a printer to go with it, largely to print off one or two shots that I might manage to capture by accident at the next Shuttleworth 😉
Any recommendations?
No more that GBP 250 ish, ideally with separate ink tanks per colour. Printing speed not a great priority.
Thanks in advance
Moggy
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th March 2003 at 12:09
Find the quality level you like and then base your purchase on the cost of the ink cartridges.
Over the lifetime of a printer the ink will cost far more than the purchase price of the printer.
I use a budget printer… an Epson Stylus Color 480. Ink is very cheap for this model (and is made by a third party ink maker) and the quality is good enough for my purposes (mostly letters with the odd picture or photo).
The fact that you want the printer for images, or specifically photos means you probably want to spend a little more.
Past a certain level it is hard to tell the difference with just numbers… take an image into the shop and ask to print out the image with the different printer models that you have narrowed yourself down to (they won’t be impressed if you want to try them all…).
Glossy photo paper makes a significant difference to image quality, but remember to tell the printer you are using photo paper.
By: frankvw - 17th March 2003 at 11:58
HP printers are usually good, very good for photos.
BUT, like all other ink jet printers, the ink cartridges are veeeeery expensive…
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