Which Home Printer?

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I am thinnking of buying a printer especially for home to knock out a few photos for myself and was wondering if there was any in particular to look at or to avoid.

I would like to print up to A4 if possible and it has got to be easy to use beleive me LOL!!!

Any advice woould be greatley appreciated and received.

Thank you

P.S Happy New Year to you all.
 
Oh,

Obviously no one here uses a printer then!!!! :bang:
 
Epson or HP, the bigger the printer the bigger the ink cartridges and cheaper the ink is an A4 printer will have the highest running costs an A1 printer will be substantially cheaper cost of ink per ml.
 
When looking at printers check the ink cartridges. Look at the replacement cost, on some machines it seems cheaper to buy a new printer than replace the cartridges.

Try and go for one that has separate carts for all colours, rather than one that has a simple Black and Colour cart. You'll find one colour runs out before the others, which you simply replace that single colour. With a printer with a single "All" colour cartridge you throw away the unit with ink still in the other chambers
 
Chappers said:
When looking at printers check the ink cartridges. Look at the replacement cost, on some machines it seems cheaper to buy a new printer than replace the cartridges.

Try and go for one that has separate carts for all colours, rather than one that has a simple Black and Colour cart.
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agreed --- have Epson SX205 very easy to use

Epson 4 pack costs £40
new SX 215 printer at Comet [so maybe cheaper elsewhere] == £39

but i use non OEM Jet-Tec cartridges at £20 pack

Epson warning says invalid warranty ....WTF anyway.......:razz:
 
I have a Canon ip3300 that I picked up in a sale a couple of years ago. I only really print the odd pic for fun but I think the printer is good if you are not after anything fancy.


Andy S
 
I have a Canon ip4500 and the quality is fantastic. £40 for a set of inks and 50 sheets of Canon 6x4.
 
We use an Epson R2400 A3+ printer for personal as well as business use.
The printer when bought was about £550 and the ink cartridges are now £13 each
(it takes 8) and one particular colour will always run out before another so you need to have spares readily available but if you only use it for personal photographs the Lexmark or Kodak printers are reasonably priced and the ink isn't a massive drain on the wallet.
 
Chaz Photos said:
Best all round is a Canon with a CISS much cheaper on ink this way and good prints the place to get a CISS is CityInkExpress.co.uk
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Chaz, I think you've hit the nail on the head here have been looking for a continuous system for the right sort of money, this certainly looks the biz i only wish i hadn't have ordered a load of originals this afternoon.

You said on another thread you use permajet so do you send a couple of prints with RGB profiles to get a profile back for this ink and paper combination?

Cheers

Kris
 
Livin The Dream said:
Chaz, I think you've hit the nail on the head here have been looking for a continuous system for the right sort of money, this certainly looks the biz i only wish i hadn't have ordered a load of originals this afternoon.

You said on another thread you use permajet so do you send a couple of prints with RGB profiles to get a profile back for this ink and paper combination?

Cheers

Kris
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you get some charts to print out per there instructions and send then in the post you get an email back with the profile for each type of paper
 
Sorry to gate crash the OP's thread.

Chaz, what canon printer are you using out of interest? Are there small adjustments you generally have to make before printing to give full printing gamut?

Once you have the profile do you convert the image to be printed to this profile also? That may sound daft but up until today every piece of printing advice i've read states the document should be in RGB 1998 (canon specify sRGB). The link i posted earlier on the other thread says to change to the icc profile.

Sorry for many questions but i'm close and it's been driving me crazy for ages, many thanks in advance,

Kris
 
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