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[Wij]

I have a err... friend... who's thinkingabout buying a printer to like print stuff. Maybe even photos from a digital camera. What's good like ?

Thanks... err... from my like friend.

 

[Doomy]

I got an Epson R200, photo quality prints, neat cd printing slide for it to print directly onto paintable cd) 6 fucking expensive cartridges but theres ways around this.

£80-90.

Absofuckinglutely good apart from the official ink prices

 

[Whipped]

This may work for your, like, friend

 

[WPKenny]

I've just got a HP Photosmart 7762 printer from PC World. It was only 100 quid in the sales. You can put all types of memory card into it directly and there's a little LCD screen that lets you preview pictures you want to print.

It also does contact sheets and scans them and prints your choices even though it's not actually a scanner.

I'm very happy with it. The cartridges.... black, colour and photo-colour can be got for around the 20 each mark. I've printed quite a few pics and the "trial" ink cartridges are still at a fairly healthy level.

 

[Tom]

Don't get an Epson photostylus. They suck. They suck so hard, that some of the ink stays in the cartridge while printing. Streaky prints suck. It sucks even more when you clean everything 10 times, including the physical bits on the cartridge, and it still prints streaky lines.

In short, they suck.

 

[WPKenny]

Damini had an Epson a while back. The worst thing about them is that you can't print without all cartridges having ink in them.

So say you wanted to print off an important document in black and white. Your black cartridge could be completely full while the colour's run out yet it still won't let you print that document. Teh suckeh.

 

[Mellow]

Save the trees! Save paper! don't print, e-mail. It's good for the o-zone.

 

[Janusian]

Don't bother printing photo's off - it is cheaper and better to get them printed off by a proper developer.

We have a place in my town that prints off at 10p per print (min 50). Your colour cartridge will cost £20 per throw - that's 200 photo's - an amount you will not get from a print cartridge.

If you can't find anyone locally look at Colorama. They have the advantage of printing off in Digi camera aspect not the 6x4 or 5x7 of 35mm. Some people will crop your piccies if you get them printed.

The ink from home printers has also been shown to fade over time.

My advice is get a laser printer for home (available for about £100) which is far better value for money than an inkjet, as the toner lasts ages and get someone else to print your piccies off.

 

[Tom]

Are the kodak photocentre thingys (advertised on tv now) any good?

 

[Ch3tan]

I'm looking for a printer too, I want one that will do good quality photo prints.

I dont mind paying more now if it means the cartridge costs will be less later.

 

[Wij]

*bump*

Do we have agreement on what I should buy yet ?

 

[Tom]

Well, my next printer will most certainly not be an Epson. Perhaps a HP.

 

[Ch3tan]

Think I am going to try and link this to the imaging forum...

 

[Clown]

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica]Seems a good deal from Dell:

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/allinone?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd

Change the option on the 922 printer to "no cable", which deducts £11. Free P&P so with VAT it comes out at £34.66.[/font]

 

[Clown]

The Epson R200 is less than 50 quid at Dixons or something now.

 

[Cyfr]

Check ink prices first.. didn't HP used to do really cheap printers then charge like.. millions for ink?

 

[Lazarus]

if you have a morrisons near you (yes the supermarket) try them for cartridges.

Epson stylus 740 black cartridge normally around £12 - £3.50 in morrisons.

 

[Cask]

I've been using inkcycle cartridges for about a year which are dirt cheap and haven't broken my printer yet. But my printer is old and crap so wouldn't be too bothered if it did break.