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Printer Needed for Photos

Jan 27, 2011 3:12AM PST

I am looking to purchase a printer to print photos at home. I would like a high quality result. Keeping the cost per photo low would also be greatly appreciated. If it is low I don't mind paying more for the printer (up to $500). I also do some general printing.

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Just a quick note.
Jan 27, 2011 3:35AM PST

I am deleting your other post because it is a duplicate.

I hope you get proper responses soon.

Mark

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If that general printing is B & W
Jan 27, 2011 5:23AM PST

I'd get an inexpensive laser printer for that work and a good injet photo quality printer both. Canon Pixma is supposed to be one of the best series but I cannot claim personal experience. I do know that if you want the best quality you'll be paying through the nose for both paper and ink. There's no way around that. Printer manufacturer's don't make money on the hardware. It's all in the consumables. So a higher priced printer might give you better quality images but they don't conserve ink. You can do a google cost per page search to get a rough idea of what to expect. Wish I had better news but my experience with my old HP and photo printing was that it wasn't going to be cheap.

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For photo,
Jan 28, 2011 12:17AM PST
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Agreed. The Cannon Pixma
Feb 12, 2011 3:40AM PST

The cost of the printer is low so it will allow for the quality / ink cost, it has WiFI, reads memory cards, does full-duplex printing AND scanning.

We recommend Energy Star compliant hardware.

See it in action at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CATjy3XO9BM and best of luck. They claim the price for all inks could be $43.00 but we've seen them online for half as much, just do a little shopping.

Best of luck!