Photo printers

moco

I'm looking to buy my dad a photo printer for christmas and want to spend around 200 Euros.

Does anyone know of a good one that would be compatiable with a Samsung camera that would be easy to use and does large good quality prints?

oshead

What size large prints? A3?

RCNPhotos

I just got an epson one in PC world for well under 200 and the quality is pretty fantastic I have ot say. Think their on sale. Only thing is, with a 5x7 that I've been playing with when the paper feeds in, it turns a bit so my borders are awful wonky. Anyone else ever had this problem?

moco

oshead wrote: »

What size large prints? A3?

A4 would probably be big enough, are there any that do bigger in my price range?

Borderfox

Epson R360 for about 120-130 in PC World. Largest size is A4 and print quality is excellent. Never had any probs with mine doing any size of paper RCN.

KOJAK_1

Recently purchased an Epson RX585 and it is an excellent machine. It includes a scanner which is ver useful for copying existing photographs. Comes in at around €199

oshead

Before I go any further.... Printing photos I've taken is one of the most rewarding aspects of photography. But it costs a lot to do it right.

There probably are sub €200 printers that print A3+ size, but I wouldn't sware on them. I've had a lot of printers over the years. Generally I find the the cost of running a printer is way too prohibitive. The quality can look quite good at first but the prints tend to fade over a couple of years. This has to do with the quality of the Inks and the Paper. If you had enough money you could buy a printer that uses pigment inks instead. But you're talking about €350 or more.

You could also buy him credits with one of the many Internet printing websites. Do a search in this forum for more details.

Hope This Helps

Dave OS

daedalus2097

I bought an Epson R800 nearly 3 years ago for €270 and it's only fantastic! Absolutely gorgeous prints and has the 8 ink UltraChrome (pigment) system of the R1800. Prints borderless on the standard sizes up to A4, accepts card and rolls of paper and has a firewire port. Have since seen it in Dixons for around the €400 mark, so it pays well to shop around!!

Unfortunately it doesn't support PictBridge for connecting your camera directly to, so you'd have to get the photos onto a PC first - maybe that's not what you're looking for...

oshead

daedalus2097 wrote: »

I bought an Epson R800 nearly 3 years ago for €270 and it's only fantastic! Absolutely gorgeous prints and has the 8 ink UltraChrome (pigment) system of the R1800. Prints borderless on the standard sizes up to A4, accepts card and rolls of paper and has a firewire port. Have since seen it in Dixons for around the €400 mark, so it pays well to shop around!!

That's a nice little printer. But a full set of UltraChrome inks cost approx €150.

daedalus2097

Yup, it's pretty expensive on the ink, though it tends to only need red, green and one of the blacks replaced every 3 or 4 tanks of cyan, magenta and yellow.

oshead

I've got the R2400. Thats much the same. Though I can only use one or other of the Blacks at a time. Each time I change the black (Matt Black to Glossy Black or vice versa) the printer needs to flush all colours. Probably costs 25% ink volume (€35) :mad:.

moco

Sorry, do any of you know if this printer would be any good?

Cannon pixma ip6700d photo printer.

It's in the price range I'm looking for, my dad can't use a computer so I need something as straight forward as possible.

Thanks for all your replies.

trooney

RCNPhotos wrote: »

I just got an epson one in PC world for well under 200 and the quality is pretty fantastic I have ot say. Think their on sale. Only thing is, with a 5x7 that I've been playing with when the paper feeds in, it turns a bit so my borders are awful wonky. Anyone else ever had this problem?

Try doing an alignment from the printer settings. How old is the printer? If its old one of the guide rollers may be worn causing this.

stcstc

i have a canon 6600, actually bought it for printing on CD & DVD's, but have used it to print small images, I have an epson 7800 for actually printing photos.


the canon is actually quite a good printer out of the box


the issue with all of the cheaper printers, (on epson i mean from below the r2400) is they dont get calibrated as such, ie the profiles you get from paper companies might work there is no standards. but the semi pro and pro printers are calibrated ( i think its called linearisation) so that the profile for one will work on another.

the other thing to bare in mind is the prints you do on some of the cheaper printers will fade quicker, as they have the cheaper inks, and on glossy papers that could mean they may fade in approx 2 years. the more expensive inks (like the K3 epson ones) can last up to 75 years, which is actually longer than prints from the likes of photobox even. this is really relevant if you intend to sell any of your prints to customers, they could get rather upset if the prints you sell them start fading and discoloring in say 12 to 24 months

Borderfox

The epson r360 comes with a 3.5 inch screen on the front so no pc needed.