Question?

PowerHouseDan

My Father wants to buy one of the stand alone Digital Photo Printers, The ones that you just put in your memory card or connect your camera via USB,and doesnt need a pc. There are a few in argus but does anyone suggest anyones there or any other place and the best type?

DotOrg

what's his budget?
what size does he want to print?
how concerned about quiality over price is he?

the best thing to do is go into somewhere like jessops/pc world and ask to try out their printers with the same picture off the camera

or for canon you can get a free sample print off any of their printers by registering at:
http://www.yourprint.canon-europe.com/index.html

PowerHouseDan

Its depends how good, its not serious photo's, Em an Option of doing A4 pages would be nice but he wants good Quailty?

DotOrg

virtually all dedicated photo printers are very good quality. the more you spend the better you get. you should only make decisions based on what's best for you so bring the camera with some photos on it that are typical of the kind of things you take and bring it one of the shops I mentioned above and then you can see exactly what's best as regards price and quality


i personally wouldn't buy anything but a top of the range canon 8 colour printer (if i could afford the ink) as the quality and price you get from a photo lab is currently better than you get from home printing

PowerHouseDan

Cheers for your help.
Anymore details, prices etc let me know..

rymus

i have a canon cp200. it's one of those compact 6x4" dye-sub printers. Works very well for me anyway... I've printed from the pc and by connecting the camera directly into it. Haven't made the jump to A4 size yet but when I do I'd say I'll be going to a lab

PowerHouseDan

Where ya get it?How much it set ya back?

rymus

that was about 18 months ago at this stage... I think it was around the €200 mark. It was bought somewhere in cork city

PowerHouseDan

OK Cheers.