Printer Recomendations

One of the Epson R models is good, I have the R200 and for $100 bucks it is awesome. It has great build quality separate ink cartridges for each color and it prints on inkjet printable CDs and DVDs. The quality is incredible and it does borderless printing for the most popular sizes. They also have the R300 and R800 which cost more, but give you a few more bells and whistles. I also own a Canon i9100 13×19" printer that is incredible. It has been replaced with the i9900 which isn’t quite as good, but you might be able to pick up an i9100 for less now that it has been replaced. Check eBay.

John

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I am thinking about getting a dedicated photo printer, but not sure which one would give the best results for the range of $100 – $200 (if that is possible). I currently have a Lexmark z55, and although it has done fairly well in the past, I find that I have to adjust the levels within Photoshop to get on print what I see (originally) on screen. I will be printing

mostly

photo images/photo art, and some illustrations.

Any advice/experience with any photo quality printers would be greatly appreciated.

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One of the Epson R models is good, I have the R200 and for $100 bucks it

is

awesome. It has great build quality separate ink cartridges for each color and it prints on inkjet printable CDs and DVDs. The quality is incredible and it does borderless printing for the most popular sizes. They also have the R300 and R800 which cost more, but give you a few more bells and whistles. I also own a Canon i9100 13×19" printer that is incredible. It

has

been replaced with the i9900 which isn’t quite as good, but you might be able to pick up an i9100 for less now that it has been replaced. Check

eBay.

John

Yes, I bought a 9100 on ebay for 250.00 delivered on ebay. New in the box with full warranty. The thing just rocks!!!

In article <XfhZc.29949$>, SamMan wrote:

I am thinking about getting a dedicated photo printer, but not sure which one would give the best results for the range of $100 – $200 (if that is possible). I currently have a Lexmark z55, and although it has done fairly well in the past, I find that I have to adjust the levels within Photoshop to get on print what I see (originally) on screen. I will be printing mostly photo images/photo art, and some illustrations.

I see a bunch of Epson Stylus 1280 printers on eBay right now for less than $200. If you add an MSI or other bulk ink feed system for the same price ($200) and another $100 for ink, you’ll save a metric buttload of money on cartridges – if you print a lot.

With normal printers, if you run out of one color in the cartridge, you buy another cartridge for $20-30. With my bulk ink feed, I get four ounces of each color for about $16.

HOWEVER –

You’re into color matching problems now. Have you carefully run the Adobe screen setup program? Do you run it after the monitor’s been in use for at least half an hour? Do you have an ICC profile for the printer and ink and paper combination that you’re using?

I use OptiCal/PhotoCal (about $300 I think) for the monitor, and Profile Prism (< $100) for the printer/ink/paper/scanner ICC generation. You can probably do with much less hardware/software if you stick with standard ink cartridges and paper. I regenerate the printer/ink/paper profile with every new box of paper opened or bottle of ink changed. The monitor profile gets updated every couple of weeks when OptiCal nags me to do so.

Canon i865 is worth a look – A4 full bleed, disc printing 5 seperate tanks (CMYKK), direct camera prints, Canon scanner to printer copies, 4×6 photo paper cartridge can be left in with A4 paper…

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I am thinking about getting a dedicated photo printer, but not sure which one would give the best results for the range of $100 – $200 (if that is possible). I currently have a Lexmark z55, and although it has done fairly well in the past, I find that I have to adjust the levels within Photoshop to get on print what I see (originally) on screen. I will be printing mostly
photo images/photo art, and some illustrations.

Any advice/experience with any photo quality printers would be greatly appreciated.

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Thanks for every one’s input!

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Just want to add to the praise for the Canon i9100. Its output is amazing.

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I am thinking about getting a dedicated photo printer, but not sure which one would give the best results for the range of $100 – $200 (if that is possible). I currently have a Lexmark z55, and although it has done

fairly

well in the past, I find that I have to adjust the levels within

Photoshop

to get on print what I see (originally) on screen. I will be printing mostly
photo images/photo art, and some illustrations.

Any advice/experience with any photo quality printers would be greatly appreciated.

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SamMan
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Thanks for every one’s input!

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I’ll have a look at the Canon’s & Epson’s. I poked around in both Photoshop’s Print with preview… Color management & the Lexmark’s settings, and was able to get a print that pretty closely matched the monitor. I know that I can get better, so I will still have one of the other printers on my wish list.

Thanks again.

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Just want to add to the praise for the Canon i9100. Its output is amazing.
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"SamMan" wrote in message

I am thinking about getting a dedicated photo printer, but not sure which
one would give the best results for the range of $100 – $200 (if that is
possible). I currently have a Lexmark z55, and although it has done

fairly

well in the past, I find that I have to adjust the levels within

Photoshop

to get on print what I see (originally) on screen. I will be printing mostly
photo images/photo art, and some illustrations.

Any advice/experience with any photo quality printers would be greatly appreciated.

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SamMan
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Thanks for every one’s input!

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