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Recommend me a Photo Printer...
saint2e
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...without leaving my wallet an empty, destitute place.
Basically I lived 2 years in England and amassed a great deal of photos. I'd like to print these photos off myself rather than go through the hassle/cost of taking them to a Digital Photo place.
I haven't actually owned a printer in close to 6 years (work always had one), so I don't know what I'm doing. I'm leaning towards Canon since my camera is Canon and I love it, but otherwise no clue.
I'm thinking around the $150-$200 price range.
Printer paper and ink costs are also a factor.
As well, if it can do regular printing as well (again, I've no clue where to even start), that'd be awesome.
Basically I lived 2 years in England and amassed a great deal of photos. I'd like to print these photos off myself rather than go through the hassle/cost of taking them to a Digital Photo place.
I haven't actually owned a printer in close to 6 years (work always had one), so I don't know what I'm doing. I'm leaning towards Canon since my camera is Canon and I love it, but otherwise no clue.
I'm thinking around the $150-$200 price range.
Printer paper and ink costs are also a factor.
As well, if it can do regular printing as well (again, I've no clue where to even start), that'd be awesome.
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My wife and I have a dye-sub printer for photos. It's limited to 4x6 but it's easy to just print stuff out when we need it. It's also mildly portable but we're not those kind of people. We've found that, given the hassle you have to put up with by owning an inkjet (expensive ink, clogs, expensive paper, and it's still prone to water/humidity wrecking it as well as light wrecking the photo over time), something like shutterfly or snapfish is much cheaper, much less hassle, and it's pretty straightforward.
The biggest problem is that printing full-on pictures eats through ink like nobody's business, so printing out a batch of photos can cost you an entire set of ink, which costs something like $70. And a batch is like "20" or less, not 200, and that's on fancy paper at high quality. After all, if you want shitty quality, you might as well get a shitty printer that's cheap, right?
So we now own a laser jet for papers/websites/coupons, and we do all our photos through online dealies. The shops in Target and/or Walmart are also pretty snazzy nowadays, and the quality is good. Dump stuff on a memor card and it puts stuff on the monitors. Pretty easy, and MUCH less money than dealing with ink.