Canon want you to print

So how many photos are actually printed these days, probably a tiny fraction compared to 5 or 10 years ago. The rise of the smartphone and instant posting onto the likes of Facebook is all the current younger generation have known, I don't think my boys bother printing photos at all. The likes of Epson and Canon have killed the home market golden goose with the ludicrous cost of consumables for their photo printers, a set of cartridges for my humble A4 Epson costs £54 for 6 tiny plastic containers. It's now a rare event for me to print photographs, much as I used to enjoy watching the photo emerge from the printer. Club members of my Camera Club, more often than not, are using online photo labs for their competition entries, as these are generally need to be bigger than A4, A3 printer purchase and running costs make even less sense. My message to Canon would be by all means amuse me with an advert, but i'm not going to print more photos at the current prices. I'd also say to Samsung that I don't like throwing away an almost new small laser printer because it's still cheaper to buy a new one with an underfilled cartidge than buy an actual branded replacement cartridge.
 
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For me to print it is cheaper to send it away to loxley. It would be nice to do my own but the cost pits if out over my range
 
We have a colour laser printer at home. Great for the office, terrible for prints, so all mine get sent away. £300 for a set of toners for it, but they do last around 10000 pages though.
 
Byker28i said:
We have a colour laser printer at home. Great for the office, terrible for prints, so all mine get sent away. £300 for a set of toners for it, but they do last around 10000 pages though.
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We also have a colour laser printer (as well as an inkjet A2). I've used both to produce prints for a local (non photographic) group, using the laser only for what I considered rough proofs to show what was there, rather than a "proper" print. I was both surprised and horrified to find that they found the laser priints more than acceptable. It seems very few people recognise high quality these days. Or should that be "appreciate"?
 
motion triggered or sound triggered?
 
And don't forget the time lapse capability on certain cameras, a shot every 10 seconds to about 3 minutes and 40 seconds would cover all the action for those aged photographers.
 
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