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| Thread ID: 41711 | 2004-01-20 03:16:00 | Photo Printers | hukcomse (1516) | Press F1 |
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| 208616 | 2004-01-20 03:16:00 | I am about to purchase a photo printer and would like some advice as to which one to buy. I am tempted by the Epson 830U which I can get for a very good price. Any advice would be much appreciated. | hukcomse (1516) | ||
| 208617 | 2004-01-20 03:29:00 | It depends on what you want from it. I have an Epson Stylus C83 which does a good job. I wanted one with separate ink tanks. Do you want to print A3? Rolls of paper? Lots of copies? Want 6x4 only? There are lots of subtleties. I think HP are probably more technically good with their inks, but Canon and Epson do a pretty good job too. Apparently someone, Epson I think, is being sued in the US because the chip in their ink cartridges says it's empty when it still has 30% ink left. They say that the cartridge prints more pages than promised so there is no problem. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 208618 | 2004-01-20 03:35:00 | So it will do 13 pages rather than 12?;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 208619 | 2004-01-20 03:37:00 | Thanks for your reply robo. I want A4 maximum size but I also print 6x4 cards. Most retailers I have spoken to here rate the Epsons ahead of the HP's....do you agree with this? I would also like to read a review of the 830U if one is available. Anyone know where to find one? | hukcomse (1516) | ||
| 208620 | 2004-01-20 03:43:00 | I purchased an HP 6*4 photo printer a few weeks ago from Dick Smith. It has 4 slots for nearly every memory card. So, if you have a digital cam which takes a memory card. All you do, is take the photo, take the card out, and chuck it in a slot on the printer. And print. The printer has an LCD screen on it. BUT you cant preview what it looks like from the printer. You can thru software tho. You have to buy the USB2 cable (I'm pretty sure the printer is USB2. It comes with software, to get the photo right. Or you can use any graphics program u like to change it. It also comes up in XP as a removable drive. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 208621 | 2004-01-20 04:19:00 | I'm using an old Epson Stylus color 670. It's sort of OK, usb and makes tolerably good prints. My main concern is the lastability of the inks. I hear some more recent inks are good for plently more years than the stuff I have to buy. Any ideas from anyone on who has the best inks (overall) as well as the best printer, HP Canon or Epson (or Lexmark?????????). |
rugila (214) | ||
| 208622 | 2004-01-20 05:16:00 | Well the HP photosmart 145 is only one cartridge and pretty dear (bout $64), but it does print excellent photos And 1 cartridge will print at least 200-250 photos. And the photos do actually look like photos. And the glossy paper is dry as soon as it has finished printing. It is actually a photo printer, and prints nothing else (well it can, if you can fit the paper in)! |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 208623 | 2004-01-20 06:44:00 | I have a Canon S750 and although I did not buy it for printing photographs, I recently tried it on the Kodak glossy photo paper samples that came with my digital camera and I was quite frankly amazed at the quality of the results. I then tried it on a full size A4 print using the HR-101 high resolution paper that was supplied with the printer and those results exceeded my expectations as well. From those results I guess any printer designed for photos has to do even better, however personally I am wedded to Canon because of their separate ink tanks and lack of any impediment to draining the tanks dry. You can extract the last drop of ink. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 208624 | 2004-01-20 06:50:00 | I would also go for a Canon. Does an excellent job & cheapest to run. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 208625 | 2004-01-20 08:40:00 | I would agree with Billy & Peter.. After using an earlier HP 820cxi printer for a while, I tried a cheap Canon i320 for printing the digi photos. The better quality was amazing. Ink costs were reasonable compared with the HP. I was so impressed with the Canon results, & after reading excellent reviews on Steves-Digicams, about the Canon i850 printer, I have used that also. It is even a little better. Four ink tanks, 1 black + 3 colour. The A4 photo prints are sparkling excellent true colour. The "EasyPrint" software supplied with these printers is great for selecting images, paper, & sizes for printing. Highly recommended. Both these printers are excellent, but they now have been superceeded with slightly later models. No doubt even better. Cheers. |
Bazza (407) | ||
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