Buying a printer

[godling]

Howdy people, long time.

I'm looking to buy a midrange-to-highend printer (not going over $250) primarily for photo printing, and I expect it to print documents in economic mode as well.

For this I'm considering the Canon CP series [here].

I had three questions:

1. Is there any other (better) alternative I can look for? considering that I want great photo prints and economic document printouts?

2. These photo printers.....are they just dedicated photo printers? or do they have an economic document printing mode as well? (I mean, will they forcibly printout everything including word documents in ultra high photo quality?)

and,

3. When a printer spec is 300x300 dpi, or 300x600 dpi, what does that mean and what is the largest size I can print under these DPIs, A4?

[KnightRid]

All of those printers are actual photo printers for 4X6 prints, not for regular paper.

You want a regular photo inkjet if you want to do regular printing also. If you dont need it to be protable, you can get an AWESOME printer for around $100-$150 US dollars! I have an older Canon ip4000 and even on that the photo printouts look amazing!

Mike

[godling]

All of those printers are actual photo printers for 4X6 prints, not for regular paper.

You want a regular photo inkjet if you want to do regular printing also. If you dont need it to be protable, you can get an AWESOME printer for around $100-$150 US dollars! I have an older Canon ip4000 and even on that the photo printouts look amazing!

Mike

Thanks for the mention! Somehow I just felt that those photo printers won't do text like normal printers do, and that's why I asked. So that's that, they are photo only. Off my list then.

I definitely don't need portable, so I'll check out some photo inkjet makes. Any particular one (new?) you'd like to mention?

Thanks.

[martini161]

i have a HP photosmart 2600, dont know if they make them any more but if they do its a great buy. its got a fax, scanner copier printer and it even has an ethernet jack

[KnightRid]

I dont like the all-in-ones!

I would suggest the Canon ip4500 - I had HP when I first started out, but the only good HP printers are the HIGH end! That canon is around $130 MSRP and will blow away the same priced HP for quality.

Mike

of course you could go to the Pixma PRO line, but I dont think you will like those prices ;) bet it would cost over $120 to replace all those ink tanks

[unfaithfulsfan]

I recently bought a Kodak EasyShare 5100 AIO for $99 at Wal-Mart. Prints great text and absolutely awesome photos although not the fastest in the world. It replaced a two year old Canon ipIfrickinforgetthemodel. The best part about the kodak is the price of ink cartridges $9 for black and $15 for color or if you're lucky you can find the two pack (one of each) for $22.

Worth a look IMO

[unfaithfulsfan]

forgot to mention, I got roughly 70 4x6 prints along with about a dozen 8x10 prints on one color cartridge. The only thing that really sucks about this printer is you'd best not try to rush printing 4x6s. Do them one at a time or you risk screwed up prints, a lot of rage, an expanded vocabulary and a couple of frightened pets.

Doesn't have a fax but does have scanner/copier
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier. ... cale=en_US

Jack