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Recommend me a photo printer?
illirica
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Hey, folks,
I was wondering if anyone could offer some advice on photo printers. I have a lovely digital camera and a beautiful baby girl and tons of great pictures which I really really do intend to take to be printed someday... yeah. I really like having photo albums that you can flip through, but I can't get myself to go get the pictures I have printed, so I'm thinking I'd really like to do it at home.
Anyway, I looked around a bit, and there seem to be a lot of options. So, my questions:
1. Is the quality on at-home printed photos of comparable quality to having it printed at, say, Walgreens? How do the photos/ink hold up? Are they likely to fade?
2. Are the $400-500 models that much better than the $100-$150 models? If I went the "this is my Christmas+birthday present" route, I can afford the expensive ones, but I don't want to buy into that if it's not worth it. I'm really only looking to print standard-size (4x6 or 3.5x5) photos, so I don't need to be able to print huge photos.
3. What are good brands and models these days? Does anyone have any recommendations of ones that are good, or ones to avoid?
I was wondering if anyone could offer some advice on photo printers. I have a lovely digital camera and a beautiful baby girl and tons of great pictures which I really really do intend to take to be printed someday... yeah. I really like having photo albums that you can flip through, but I can't get myself to go get the pictures I have printed, so I'm thinking I'd really like to do it at home.
Anyway, I looked around a bit, and there seem to be a lot of options. So, my questions:
1. Is the quality on at-home printed photos of comparable quality to having it printed at, say, Walgreens? How do the photos/ink hold up? Are they likely to fade?
2. Are the $400-500 models that much better than the $100-$150 models? If I went the "this is my Christmas+birthday present" route, I can afford the expensive ones, but I don't want to buy into that if it's not worth it. I'm really only looking to print standard-size (4x6 or 3.5x5) photos, so I don't need to be able to print huge photos.
3. What are good brands and models these days? Does anyone have any recommendations of ones that are good, or ones to avoid?
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Photos will fade depending on the ink and the paper you're using.
Price-wise... the more expensive ones can transition from one color to the other and will print dark details easily. Cheap ones wont. Also, don't get one of those all in one printers, they can't do any of the features with an above average performance.
The life expectancy on something like that on photos is over 100 years, so yeah.
No worries about ink cartridges (So expensive!) or paper (Quality shifts so much between brands) or screw ups (Don't pay for anything that doesn't look good).
My wife has taken 40, 000+ pics in the 2.5 years of my sons life, I probably would have gone through $3K in ink and paper and a printer or two if she could print pics at home...
I have one of these. It's overkill for family album photos.
I have a Canon MP560. Mostly for school but I've printed photos and compared it to my sister's Epson and our older Lexmark and the difference is very noticeable, especially in the blacks. It's a very cheap printer (and will be outperformed by higher-tier equipment), but Canon seems like a good brand for photo printing to me.
Maybe go with a printing service and spend the money on a lens for the camera ;P
Fucking awesome.
Best $500 I have ever spent.
And I have had it for one day and made back my money from the prints I have sold!