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Ha All

Just looking to see what printer every one uses & are they happy with them.
I have a Canon S820 which delivers a great image but the ink tanks are way over the top price wise.
My Little Fujifilm CX – 400 is a riper, it’s a thermal printer with the only thing you have to replace is the paper roll & at $28 a roll it works out nice & cheep.
I get 40, 6X4 prints out of a roll, it will print up to 7 X 4.
The print resolution is 310 & pin sharp.

Cheers
Ray

I have a Canon I950. 4800dpi and 6 colours and designed for photo printing. I use it to make presentos for the guys at work and no one has noticed the photos in them are printed on a printer, rather than a mini-lab photo. :) Hehe (hideous laugh), the perfect crime.

I love this printer and wouldn't swap it for anything............yet!!!

Steve

I have an entry level colour inkjet printer i455. I originally bought it as an alternative to buying HP ink for my older printer when it the cartridge had been refilled too many times to work reliably. I am pleasantly surprised by the photo quality print output. The same 4800x1200dpi res as higher models in the Canon range, and the same 2 picolitre fine droplets as higher models too.

The only downside is, it has an integrated colour ink tank which is supposed to be inferior to individual tanks, but from what others reported their separate colour inks usually need to be replaced at approximately the same time anyways, so that "not needing to throw out unused colour ink" marketting advantage is a moot point.

I bought a Epson R310 for my daughter and have put through about a dozen 10x15's. Great quality on all but one of the prints, haven't yet had to face anything like clogged cartridges, etc.

Over here I have a Canon S900... nice printer but relatively high operating cost... would love to find a cheap option to do test prints etc so I don't have to think so hard before putting ink to paper.

Nnnnsic's edit: Try not to press the submit button more than once...

Mj wrote:Over here I have a Canon S900... nice printer but relatively high operating cost... would love to find a cheap option to do test prints etc so I don't have to think so hard before putting ink to paper.

One thing that's quite useful is a colour spyder to calibrate your monitors. It helps you to see something closer to the colours that you should be getting from your printers.

gstark wrote:One thing that's quite useful is a colour spyder to calibrate your monitors.

These are pretty pricy arn't they??? I think I looked at these a while ago and they were abotu $300. Could be wrong though.

W00DY

$US99 here, anyone want me to bring back one?

Raydar wrote:Ha All

Just looking to see what printer every one uses & are they happy with them.

Using the EPSON 2100. Fantastic quality, especially on Hahnemulhe Photo Rag paper. Hideously EXPENSIVE to run (complete ink change is around $140 a pop, and I go through a complete set every month or so - print about a dozen A3+ sized photos, and you run out of ink really fast!) but for exhibitions, I find it produces excellent, archival quality, prints. Cost of inks is covered by the buyer paying for a framed print; otherwise if it was a case of using it just to print photos for fun, you'd be nuts - the cost is stupid.

Having said that, I'm more than happy with this particular model printer, but only because it pays its own way.

... Obsolete ...

R310 here - I don’t often print pics out but when I do this printer is a ripper

Canon i9950 A3+ are great

Epson RX510 Multifunction. I'm quite satisfied with its quality. 5 colours + black - because the kids use it for uni and school stuff, I can't justify the Epson brand ink refills, but the cheapies I get from the US are good enough.

Frank

Hi! All,

Canon i950, nearly 12 months now and although I have not printed much (still on original tanks) will be doing a marathon print run shortly.

Bought it out of frustration with the quality of prints I was getting at the shop, now am very pleased as I believe I am getting better prints than over the counter. Like Killakoala no one has picked it and I am often asked "where did you get these printed?

Cheers, Andyt

Canon i965 - very happy with performance. Prints directly onto DVDs or CDs too. 6 ink tanks.

All Epson
R300 for small prints and 8.5 x 11 (A4)
R1800 for large color prints
2200 for large B&W and and color on special art papers

Konica Minolta 1350W Color Laser for normal day to day use and some limited "proofing" of photos

I've got a Canon Pixma 4000 which isn't bad for printing photos, biggest advantage for me is double sided printing (duplex) and printing onto CD's and DVD's.

Bob.

cameraguy21773 wrote:All Epson
R300 for small prints and 8.5 x 11 (A4)
R1800 for large color prints
2200 for large B&W and and color on special art papers

Konica Minolta 1350W Color Laser for normal day to day use and some limited "proofing" of photos

Nice collection of printers there! Could u please put in your profile where u are from, it makes is much more helpful to everyone if we know where in the world you are .

It's in my signature Block - Frederick, MD (Maryland), USA

I have, a starting to get old but still good, Canon S9000. Delivers excellent A3+ prints. I'd love an Epson Stylus Pro 4000 or 4800 though! I suppose I'll need a nice D2X to get the pictures up to that size too. I feel an attack of LUST!
marco

Canon i850, I thought it was supper when I first got ,now not so sure.

Only likes canon paper. I have a truck load of Kodak Ultima paper (5x7) but the results are just crap.

Have printed on to some cheap Geographics canvas that turned out OK also.


MATT

cameraguy21773 wrote:It's in my signature Block - Frederick, MD (Maryland), USA

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Mike Parker
Frederick, MD

Take Only Pictures, Leave Only Footprints

It is??

MATT wrote:Canon i850, I thought it was supper when I first got ,now not so sure.

Only likes canon paper. I have a truck load of Kodak Ultima paper (5x7) but the results are just crap.

Have printed on to some cheap Geographics canvas that turned out OK also.


MATT

are you using the correct paper profile for the Kodak paper, and canvas

Hi there

I have the Epson R1800 purchased a few months back. Its a fine printer and now that I am using the correct paper its output is nothing short of spectacular.

When you consider the 'stuff' I had to do to set up my B&W darkroom every few weeks, this printer does it all.

Its built like a tank. I have noticed that the inks drop a little when I am not using it for a few weeks which means there may be some kind of evaporation taking place. I have not really tested this.

It is really good with small prints as well. I would prefer to only have one good printer than lots of specialist ones as I just couldnt keep up with the inks.

Have fun on this great Sunday.

Peter Mc

Matt
bp is right! However regardless of profiling IMO I've found that Canon paper always produces better results from my canon printer. Consequenly I have just profiled my printer for Canon Photo Paper Pro paper(and yes you need to profile your printer for the actual paper type and grade you are using for accurate and consisitent results). I still use the kodak paper and hp paper i have left over for lesser work but for accuracy and important jobs I use Canon Photo Paper Pro and maintain my printer profile for just that paper.
Marco

I have used the profile as descibed on the Kodak web site for the type of paper but it is still crap.

As for the canvas, there was no real instructions or anything. Not much info showed up on the web fro the canvas either. Probable cause I got it from Big "W" department store.

I tried the Kodak software also but it was even worse.

I mainly print from PS now.

If you have more info on profiling or a link that would be great.

CHeers

MATT

Cameraguy, you are probably surprised by this but most Australians don't know the abbreviation for all 50 states of America Probably much the same way most Americans aren't familair with our states and territories abbreviations. When the abbreviation MD is used here it means Doctor of Medicine. That is why you have been asked for your location.



As a bit of humour, a few weeks back they were showing the heatwave in parts af America, I think it was Arizona where they were ringing there citizens to.... tell them it was hot!!! Would have been interesting to get one of those calls

cameraguy21773 wrote:It's in my signature Block - Frederick, MD (Maryland), USA

We still prefer it in your profile ... and while this may or may not be important to you, you won't be able to gain full access to our members' sections unless and until it's there.

Thanx for your cooperation.

MATT wrote:If you have more info on profiling or a link that would be great.

MATT

There is a lot of information about printer profiles on the web.

to get your best results you will need your screen profiled and printer stock profiled to match your printer.

Some members use the service of Kathy's profiles in the US for printer profiles. You will have to look this up on the web. There are others who make custom profiles and from memory the cost is anywhere from $60 to $120au.......

MATT wrote:Canon i850, I thought it was supper when I first got ,now not so sure.

Only likes canon paper. I have a truck load of Kodak Ultima paper (5x7) but the results are just crap.

Have printed on to some cheap Geographics canvas that turned out OK also.


MATT

I found this to be true for me as well. I had bought some Kodak Ultima on special and followed the included instructions' recommended profile and printer settings but it gave crap results I ended up giving away half the stack of unused paper to someone else. Only Canon paper for me, and I stock up only when a place has them on special, or I buy from overseas and bring it back - and I'm consistently surprised by just how good my little budget printer produces.

I am using a Canon i950 and am pretty happy with it. I get best results with Canon Pro paper, but also very good results with Tetenal and Ilford papers. The worst was with Kodak Ultima...
Cheers,
Gerard