first photo printer

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Hi all,
I'm on the hunt for my first photo printer,budget is £150/£250,
I would like to to print up to A4 and have individual ink cartridges,print speed doesn't have to super quick,I would like the print qualityto be good for the money,
thanks for any advice john.
 
I've just bought a Canon IP4700, it was £109 in PC World and I have to say that the quality is excellent.
 
I also have the IP4700 and it is outstanding. If you can wait a couple of days you can pick it up for £80 delivered.
 
I'm sure it won't stop you from buying a printer, but when you can get excellent 12x8 for 34p from Aldi (and 6x4 for 5p from lots of places) I am increasingly thinking of putting my way underused photo printer in the loft and giving me some more desk space. No messing about with different papers, trying to get the colour right, clogged heads, endless test prints wasted. 34p for a 12x8 - you can't get anywhere near that printing at home, and still struggle to match the quality and convenience. Delivery in 2 days or less.

For normal printing I have a cheap laser. Cheap to run and no clogged heads.
 
Not really upto date on the current printers, however the canon IP8500 printer that I've had for a few years is great. 8 inks and produces great prints, although must admit that I use on-line printers for most of my printing nowadays.
So most of the IP range has received good reviews.
 
IP4300 user here. Had it 3 years now and its been great. Frugal on the inks.
Ilford profiles available for it which made a difference when printing.
 
http://www.togsprint.com/store/index.php

Quite a few TP members use Lee at togsprint

The gadget show has just reviewed the best on-line print sites

http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/videos/other/online-photo-printing

They recommended snapfish for value for money and image quality, I use photobox (which I quite like because I don't have to size my image for printing, just upload file and choose a image size, they will tell you what quality print you'll get from the image you've uploaded. A 3000x2000 pixel image will give you a reasonable good A3/A2 print) which was also in the gadget shows top 5.

Peter
 
pete.rush said:
http://www.togsprint.com/store/index.php

Quite a few TP members use Lee at togsprint

The gadget show has just reviewed the best on-line print sites

http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/videos/other/online-photo-printing

They recommended snapfish for value for money and image quality, I use photobox (which I quite like because I don't have to size my image for printing, just upload file and choose a image size, they will tell you what quality print you'll get from the image you've uploaded. A 3000x2000 pixel image will give you a reasonable good A3/A2 print) which was also in the gadget shows top 5.

Peter
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Watched the Gadget show - Signed up to Snapfish for 20 free prints straight after the show.

As per their review, my pics arrived in 3 days (very impressed!) however, quality is shockingly bad! So much so I am going to complain to Snapfish! Worse than I could have printed at home. Not impressed at all.

Willl try the others.

Have used Jessops before (instore) and they have been great.
 
I use a Canon Pixma IP4600 and used the Ilford profiles for Photoshop, the print quality is simply outstanding...
 
I've had many hundreds of 6x4 and a few 30x20 printed by Photobox, and in to the thousands 6x4 at Tesco (in store). Never a problem with quality, colour, or anything. I recently had the aforementioned 12x8s done at Aldi (online), about 90 in all, and they were excellent.
 
Hi,
I wondered if the guys who had the good or bad prints was related to screen calibration? I have had one bad experience where some prints came out appearing to be underexposed but I have not had my laptop calibrated. Bad luck or do I need to get it done?

Dunc
 
Duncan.F said:
Hi,
I wondered if the guys who had the good or bad prints was related to screen calibration? I have had one bad experience where some prints came out appearing to be underexposed but I have not had my laptop calibrated. Bad luck or do I need to get it done?

Dunc
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I bought a Huey to calibrate the screen, made a big difference regards print outputs. Never used any online printers. For getting big prints i used a local lab, Farnells.
 
Hi,

I use an HP D7260 with a CISS kit and it produces some great prints that are a match for the original ink sets provided by HP. Other plus points are that you can print directly from the printer itself via the built in card slots and also there is a large touch screen that gives you plenty of options to choose from. Ethernet is also included(I have mine connected to my router for network printing around the house) Another thing I like is the dedicated photo paper tray that takes 6x4 sheets of paper saving you the aggro of swapping sheets of paper evertime you wish to print snapshot photo's.

HP have just updated their range of printers, so check them out!!


Mike.
 
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