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Hello all, new here so go easy. I have the new Nikon D90, however, i require professional prints of my photos, i want to print them myself.

Im looking for a photo printer, preferably epson and can do disc printing aswell.

I have a **** load of photos my gf wants printed and framed so she can give them to folk, however, i need a professional finish to the photo as they will be gifts so i dont want a taccy pish looking finish like it was printed from a c42 with compatibles.

Oh, i know i want a professional finish but i dont want to spend 500 quid either! Laughing

Possibly i will be doing a3 but not too important..

Thoughts and recommendations for those who print professional photos please.

Thanks.
 
There are loads of really good quality printers on the market at the mo. You probably won't go wrong with most of the higher end Epsons.

However, have a look at photobox as the price they punt prints out at works out cheaper than I can print them on my Cannon printer at home and they are definitely of better quality. The prints are usually back with you with a couple of days too. Can't fault the service really and by the look of it a lot of pro togs on here use them too.

Sorry I can't be more specific on printers :D
 
There are plenty of printer around the £70 print point that will do a decent job. Finish is really down to using decent paper and inks.

To be honest, unless you're willing to spend £250+ on the printer the results won't be any better than those you get from decent lab such as DSCL who produce great quality prints for pennies.
 
thanks folks, so lets say i want to spend 300 quid on a printer, will it be worth it for the quality of the print over say a photo lab?

Im thinking of purchasing the rx585 or r285

I dont mind it costing more to do it at home, i get more out of it.
 
If your up for doing at home then I'm guessing you'll sacrifice some quality for the creative input you have had in the finished result. I would advise going for the £100 ish printers as printing all your own shots gets very old very quickly, as does going to PC World every ten minutes for more printer cartridges, and my guess is that in the long run you'll end up using an online lab more than your own printer.

Sounds a bit negative but I went through the same process. Sorry for tarring you with my brush if I'm wrong :D
 
Unfortunately it's not simply a case of just buying a good printer, it's only part of the equation. You'll also need to get your monitor calibrated and use a properly colour managed workflow. QImage is a good app for printing and produces excellent quality prints if you've got everything else sorted out.
 
I would just out source your requests to DS colour labs and forget about home printer

jamie22 said:
Hello all, new here so go easy. I have the new Nikon D90, however, i require professional prints of my photos, i want to print them myself.

Im looking for a photo printer, preferably epson and can do disc printing aswell.

I have a **** load of photos my gf wants printed and framed so she can give them to folk, however, i need a professional finish to the photo as they will be gifts so i dont want a taccy pish looking finish like it was printed from a c42 with compatibles.

Oh, i know i want a professional finish but i dont want to spend 500 quid either! Laughing

Possibly i will be doing a3 but not too important..

Thoughts and recommendations for those who print professional photos please.

Thanks.
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I've used Photobox for some time and liked their results but have had some major issues with them recently - crop instructions through their web interface were being ignored and calibration was vastly inconsistent across print sizes. I've had 5x3.75s with a pink cast, 6x4s underexposed with a slight green, 8x6s with the contrast ramped right up and highlights blown and 10x8s washed out. This has been explained to them and the one batch they hand reviewed before sending me were basically fine, but the next batch was a mile out again. One would think after that sort of thing they'd check their output calibration...

Until this, I had nothing but praise for them. Now, I'm seriously considering printing myself and researching good photo inkjets.
 
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