Recommend a high end photo printer

[slackerinabox]

A friend of mine is thinking about getting the epson stylus 2200 printer for high end photo use (he's a professional photographer) and I said that I'd look into competing models for him. The stylus 2200 is what I?d call a ?prosumer? printer costing about $700. Any canons of equal or better quality for a similar price? Perhaps I?m just being a biased geek, but I?ve always preferred canon?s to epsons but I?m not sure that canon has one in quite that range. Again, we?re not talking about an i950 class printer ? he?s a professional photographer and makes a living off of his photo work. He recently went digital with a 12 m.p. d.SLR and is not a kid who does this as a hobby (he?s 40+ years old). Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[CombatChuk]

There is the Canon i9900, it's a faster printer but not as archival.

 

[Mr N8]

Canon Wide Format

How serious is he about putting money into his printer? This one can do 24x36 photo prints, but it's $$$.

 

[slackerinabox]

He's very serious - if he could waste .. .i mean.. "spend" $5,000+ on his G5 mac then spending $2,500 for a printer shouldn't be a huge deal.. though I don't think he needs something that huge. He has a home based studio.

 

[Czar]

dont get an epson, they are very very very loud

 

[Mr N8]

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
He's very serious - if he could waste .. .i mean.. "spend" $5,000+ on his G5 mac then spending $2,500 for a printer shouldn't be a huge deal.. though I don't think he needs something that huge. He has a home based studio.

That's the printer that a friend of mine uses for wedding photography and personal photo shoots. He sends out a lot of his stuff, but he will print smaller quantities at his home studio, if the customer doesn't want to wait for the company he sends to.

 

[slackerinabox]

What I mean is that he probably won't be doing large format stuff .. maybe the occassional 8x10 or larger but nothing massive.

 

[Lucky]

"Again, we?re not talking about an i950 class printer ? he?s a professional photographer and makes a living off of his photo work"


I'm a professional photographer as well and find the pixma ip4000 to be an oustanding photo printer, and for only 150 bucks. The only problem going this route presents is that you cannot print formats larger than 8x10. But then again, most professional photographers do not do the "print at home on an inkjet" thing and just outsource their printing.