200 Decent printer for digital photos

[Dufrane]

I am looking to purchase a decent printer for my digital camera. Would like to keep it under 200 dollars if possible.

 

[Budmantom]

Epson 785epx





Tom

 

[Aosh]

Canon i960. Fast (by far faster than the competition) and amazingly photo-realistic.

 

[Macro2]

Canon i960 EOM

 

[Dufrane]

Buy adjusting my max price to 300 dollars will there be significant improvement in the photo quality of the printer, than what people have suggested

 

[Macro2]

No increase in quality going to 300. Canon i960.

 

[cy7878]

check Steve's digi cam site for best reviews. 6 months ago, the canon i960 was highly rated. It's fast, pictures clear. best of all all colors are individually changeable, so you don't waste ink.

generic ink tanks are available off ebay for about $2 each.

 

[Dufrane]

Thanks everyone

 

[Aosh]

Yep, agree..going to $300 won't do you much as the Canon i960 is still the best recommendation that comes to mind. Altho for $300, the Canon i9000 is a medium format printer that allows you to print up to 13" x 19" borderless posters. It's essentially the i960 but bigger.

For better prints, it would take $450 in which case I would recommend the Canon i9900 medium format photo printer. It's not only bigger, but is better -it uses 8 inks..new inks for red and green.

All of the above printers support borderless prints and are extremely fast. ~5Xs faster than Epson & HP? Epsons use pigment ink which is more resistant to fade, but more picky about the paper it uses.

For the i960, indeed third party ink can save you tons of money. But not just any generic ink. Check out the printer forum at www.dpreview.com for more info. And it's generally most compatible with Canon paper.

If you want to see how the prints look, I scanned in a 8.5 x 11 print off of my older Canon i950. Printed on cheap $0.20 matte paper. Keep in mind it's a scan, so as good as the scan looks, the actual print looks better.

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/openg/echeon/Scan%20Sample.jpg