Photo Printer Guidance

[ajvarn]

I need to buy a photo printer which is preferably a canon.

my price range is about £100 and i need to it for quality a4 prints aswell as 6x4.

the prints are sold and so need to be of some professional standard

iv been looking at the ip4500, does anyone have this printer or can reconmend something better?

 

[jenny]

I have the canon IP6700..its a great printer, only bought in May 2007..but cannot find it for sale on internet anymore ..unless it has been replaced with a newer model:shrug:

 

[ajvarn]

yeh my mate had the ip6700d but like you said it doesnt seem to show up anywhere, so im wondering if anyone knows what the replacement is?

 

[Fionab]

problem with most of hte cheaper photo printers is that most of them only have 4 colours.. well three and black, and to have the best quality u really need a printer which has as many colours as possible to enable it to give you as wide a colour gamut as poss. I use a canon i9500 which has been superceded now but its still a terrific printer and uses 8 inks ( 7 and black)

Fi

 

[Les McLean]

I'd be a little wary of using prints from a (relatively) cheap printer, although the makers (of the inks and some papers), say that the prints will be lightfast for x number of years, I've had prints fade (from a £400 canon printer).

Nowadays, I never use a printer for images I sell, prefer using somewhere like photobox or similar.

Also with printers, it's quite a pain keeping your colours spot on, particularly if you use different papers.

 

[ajvarn]

i just read a review on the ip9500 and it said unless u use it constantly alot of ink will be wasted in the print head, and also it is more than id like to spend on a printer

any other suggestions?

 

[ajvarn]

bumppp

 

[antc]

i just read a review on the ip9500 and it said unless u use it constantly alot of ink will be wasted in the print head, and also it is more than id like to spend on a printer

Whats the source of this info, im not really sure why it waste a lot of ink? If you run a quick headclean once a week it should keep it running nicely surely?