Home Photo Printer

[manu1959]

Anyone have any recomendations?

thinking of buying a photo printer for my home?

d? blue?

 

[dmp]

I'd suggest you didn't, honestly. If you have a costco around your area, you can get 4x6's for less than $.20 each. No idea how much toner would cost, but with Costco one gets a 'real' picture. Try running water over one printed at home vs one printed at a place like costco.

 

[misterblu]

Anyone have any recomendations?

thinking of buying a photo printer for my home?

d? blue?

The cheapest per print price I've seen advertised is around $0.27/print, using an Epson photo printer, for 4X6 IIRC. That's pro'lly optimistically the best you can do with a home printer.

As D said, you can get your digital photos printed onto real photo paper for less than that. Much, much less if you have a Costco or Sam's Club nearby.

Ink jet cartridges and photo paper get expensive very quickly.

 

[Abbey Normal]

Do what we did- ask for one for Christmas from your in-laws or other generous relative. :halo:

 

[sitarro]

Anyone have any recomendations?

thinking of buying a photo printer for my home?

d? blue?

I know this wasn't addressed to me but i do know a little about photography and dealing with labs.

I have always used Epson. The newer ones are available with archival ink but besides using the inks made by Epson be sure to get the best paper Epson makes. Their inks are formulated to work with the coatings that are on their paper. I use the Premium Glossy Photo Paper and I am still using my old Epson 820. It was less than 80 dollars and puts out lab quality prints if the best paper is used along with Photoshop color correction and sharpening.

If you find a lab that will actually print each shot rather than run the batch through an all in one unit you will get much better prints obviously than the minimum wage pimple face who is talking on the cell phone while the machine is pumping out your prints will give you.

All depends on what you want. Photographs are moments in time captured by you and can easily be priceless down the road. The same is true with motion pictures. My brother made my Father sit down and talk about his life, his recollections of WWII, some of his flying memories with the Air Force and later my Mother joined him and they spoke about the 57 years they had spent together. My dad was gone 6 months later, that film is priceless stuff. If you still have your parents around I can't recommend it enough to do the same.

I wouldn't get the printers that you just put a card in unless you don't have a program like Photoshop(seems to me my printer came with a version of Photoshop Elements). Those printers will make all the decisions you would make, for you, like the quick print photo labs. If you want to print 8x10s I think you will find that the cost is a lot closer to the regular lab cost. At any rate, you will learn a lot more about photography by printing them yourself even on a cheap desktop printer like my Epson.

Another option is available, I'm not sure where you need to go for a PC but with iphoto that comes with OSX on MACs you can get a variety of photo books custom made for relatively cheap. With Apple you have numerous templates available to insert your photos into, you add whatever text to each page, choose the size and cover material and send it to their sight. They have a deal with Kodak. For 30 dollars they print 10 pages both sides and put it in a 9x12 hard backed book, extra pages are .99 each. I would guess there would be something like it for PCs maybe through Kodak. They are very nice and make a great personalized gift to grandparents, parents, a potfolio with some class, etc. There are smaller books available including some with soft covers. Go into an Apple store and ask to see one, they usually have samples of the sizes available.

 

[The ClayTaurus]

Are you going to use it to print pics of the new porsche that you've been holding out on us?

 

[JOKER96BRAVO]

I know this wasn't addressed to me but i do know a little about photography and dealing with labs.

I have always used Epson. The newer ones are available with archival ink but besides using the inks made by Epson be sure to get the best paper Epson makes. Their inks are formulated to work with the coatings that are on their paper. I use the Premium Glossy Photo Paper and I am still using my old Epson 820. It was less than 80 dollars and puts out lab quality prints if the best paper is used along with Photoshop color correction and sharpening.

If you find a lab that will actually print each shot rather than run the batch through an all in one unit you will get much better prints obviously than the minimum wage pimple face who is talking on the cell phone while the machine is pumping out your prints will give you.

All depends on what you want. Photographs are moments in time captured by you and can easily be priceless down the road. The same is true with motion pictures. My brother made my Father sit down and talk about his life, his recollections of WWII, some of his flying memories with the Air Force and later my Mother joined him and they spoke about the 57 years they had spent together. My dad was gone 6 months later, that film is priceless stuff. If you still have your parents around I can't recommend it enough to do the same.

I wouldn't get the printers that you just put a card in unless you don't have a program like Photoshop(seems to me my printer came with a version of Photoshop Elements). Those printers will make all the decisions you would make, for you, like the quick print photo labs. If you want to print 8x10s I think you will find that the cost is a lot closer to the regular lab cost. At any rate, you will learn a lot more about photography by printing them yourself even on a cheap desktop printer like my Epson.

Another option is available, I'm not sure where you need to go for a PC but with iphoto that comes with OSX on MACs you can get a variety of photo books custom made for relatively cheap. With Apple you have numerous templates available to insert your photos into, you add whatever text to each page, choose the size and cover material and send it to their sight. They have a deal with Kodak. For 30 dollars they print 10 pages both sides and put it in a 9x12 hard backed book, extra pages are .99 each. I would guess there would be something like it for PCs maybe through Kodak. They are very nice and make a great personalized gift to grandparents, parents, a potfolio with some class, etc. There are smaller books available including some with soft covers. Go into an Apple store and ask to see one, they usually have samples of the sizes available.

I dunno...
Sounds automatic to me.:teeth:

 

[The ClayTaurus]

Another option is available, I'm not sure where you need to go for a PC but with iphoto that comes with OSX on MACs you can get a variety of photo books custom made for relatively cheap. With Apple you have numerous templates available to insert your photos into, you add whatever text to each page, choose the size and cover material and send it to their sight. They have a deal with Kodak. For 30 dollars they print 10 pages both sides and put it in a 9x12 hard backed book, extra pages are .99 each. I would guess there would be something like it for PCs maybe through Kodak. They are very nice and make a great personalized gift to grandparents, parents, a potfolio with some class, etc. There are smaller books available including some with soft covers. Go into an Apple store and ask to see one, they usually have samples of the sizes available.

OH THE POOR SCRAPBOOKER! YOU ASSHOLE!

 

[sitarro]

OH THE POOR SCRAPBOOKER! YOU ASSHOLE!

Ebonics wasn't around when I was in school, could you translate what the fuck this is suppose to mean... please?

 

[The ClayTaurus]

Ebonics wasn't around when I was in school, could you translate what the fuck this is suppose to mean... please?

Ebonics?

There was no ebonics in that post. Would you like a dictionary recommendation?

 

[sitarro]

Ebonics?

There was no ebonics in that post. Would you like a dictionary recommendation?

A quality printed hard bound book filled with photography that means something to someone would hardly qualify as a scrapbook.

 

[Mr. P]

Since the first digital we purchased a few years ago, I’ve been pretty much paperless. I have a cheap Canon inkjet with a photo cartridge, seldom used. I do copy all photos to CD so they could be printed at some outside source if wanted. A CD in the DVD lets everyone see the same pic at the same time too, instead of passing it around.

 

[The ClayTaurus]

A quality printed hard bound book filled with photography that means something to someone would hardly qualify as a scrapbook.

It's amusing how in two threads at almost the the same time you contradict yourself so drastically. Just think of all the photographers who would have put together a quality printed hard bound book FOR you are now being kicked to the streets because you're able to do it for yourself! They've already lost their ability to make a living taking pics, don't take away the books from them too! What's next? Cheap, cheesy office supplies like mousepads and coffee mugs? IS THERE NO SHAME?

 

[sitarro]

It's amusing how in two threads at almost the the same time you contradict yourself so drastically. Just think of all the photographers who would have put together a quality printed hard bound book FOR you are now being kicked to the streets because you're able to do it for yourself! They've already lost their ability to make a living taking pics, don't take away the books from them too! What's next? Cheap, cheesy office supplies like mousepads and coffee mugs? IS THERE NO SHAME?

Your lack of understanding even the most simplistic thought is only outdone by your arrogant flaunting of that very lack of brainpower you possess, go take some snapshots of that homely ass car of yours and pretend you have accomplished something by adding clear lenses to your turn signals. You are just the type of talentless hack that I am talking about....you buy a do it all camera, shoot a snapshot out of the window of your car, pat yourself on the back and demand that everyone be impressed that you are now a photographer. Be sure to document in snapshots the installation of the giant wing on the back of your rice fart. Don't forget to check the mailbox for your subscriptions to Maxxim and FHM, they might be in and you can get a few cheap thrills from staring at poorly designed page layout. :fu2:

 

[dmp]

Why are you insulting ME, sitarro? What the HELL has crawled up your ass lately? First, you accuse me, indirectly, of being a 'fully-auto-camera-snapshot-hack', then you insult my car? Relax dude.

 

[sitarro]

Why are you insulting ME, sitarro? What the HELL has crawled up your ass lately? First, you accuse me, indirectly, of being a 'fully-auto-camera-snapshot-hack', then you insult my car? Relax dude.

I was responding to Clay and his little jabs at me. It was not directed at you or your car, yours is silver, not as faggy as pearly white.

I like most of the photographs you, Blue and even Clay have displayed on this site....that wasn't the point of the original post. I understand advances in technology and sometimes it isn't for the best. It saddens me to see so many things that in the wrong hands just make for more mediocrity in print and sport. I have had to put up with a golf pro that could barely figure out how to start his car tell me he would go ahead and use my shots since they were already taken even though he could go out and shoot the same thing himself....The shots he was looking at were medium format transparencies taken with a Pentax 6x7 on Fuji Velvia 100, no photoshop needed. He honestly felt he could grab his point and shoot camera and copy what I had spent a couple of hours waiting up a 12 foot ladder for just the right light and no players. He didn't know or get the difference. That is getting more prevalent the easier technology makes it to get decent, "good enough" results without any knowledge or practice. Those easy results only act to make people who have little interest or talent think they are better than they are.

 

[dmp]

I was responding to Clay and his little jabs at me. It was not directed at you or your car, yours is silver, not as faggy as pearly white.

But my car is the same car, and also has clear-corner markers.

I like most of the photographs you, Blue and even Clay have displayed on this site....that wasn't the point of the original post. I understand advances in technology and sometimes it isn't for the best. It saddens me to see so many things that in the wrong hands just make for more mediocrity in print and sport. I have had to put up with a golf pro that could barely figure out how to start his car tell me he would go ahead and use my shots since they were already taken even though he could go out and shoot the same thing himself....The shots he was looking at were medium format transparencies taken with a Pentax 6x7 on Fuji Velvia 100, no photoshop needed. He honestly felt he could grab his point and shoot camera and copy what I had spent a couple of hours waiting up a 12 foot ladder for just the right light and no players. He didn't know or get the difference. That is getting more prevalent the easier technology makes it to get decent, "good enough" results without any knowledge or practice. Those easy results only act to make people who have little interest or talent think they are better than they are.

I suppose that's well-and-dandy, but I don't get why the sudden outbursts? If you have a general rant about photography, why'd you include it in MY thread about the pictures I shared? It's enough to get a brother feeling self-conscious, ya know?

 

[The ClayTaurus]

Your lack of understanding even the most simplistic thought is only outdone by your arrogant flaunting of that very lack of brainpower you possess:

Simplistic thought is a good way to describe all that you post. You derailed another thread ranting about how the photography world has passed you by, yet in this thread you promote the very result of the advancement of photography.

go take some snapshots of that homely ass car of yours and pretend you have accomplished something by adding clear lenses to your turn signals.

You REAAAAAAAALLY hate my car. It's borderline comical.

You are just the type of talentless hack that I am talking about.....

Really? Let's find out:

you buy a do it all camera, :

Actually it was purchased for me, and if I had my choice I'd have a nice DSLR. I'll give you half a point for at least getting right that I have a do-it-all camera.

shoot a snapshot out of the window of your car, :

Not very often, if ever, actually.

pat yourself on the back :

Sometimes. Even if it's grainy as hell, I can still like the composition of a photo. Right?

and demand that everyone be impressed that you are now a photographer. :

Horseshit. If anything you're demanding we respect you and your old school talent. I'm sure you're great at whatever the fuck formats you do. There's just no reason to get all crotchity about some guy who would be ok settling for a mediocre-sub par shot compared to yours. If he can't tell the difference, why the fuck would he care anyways? Stop and think about it for a second.

Be sure to document in snapshots the installation of the giant wing on the back of your rice fart.:

I'll put some spinners on it too. I'll drop 20 grand on 'em just cuz I know it'll piss you off.

Don't forget to check the mailbox for your subscriptions to Maxxim and FHM, they might be in and you can get a few cheap thrills from staring at poorly designed page layout. :fu2:

Aww look at who sounds bitter again cuz they just don't make magazines the way they used to.

Jesus grandpa, take a nap.

 

[The ClayTaurus]

I was responding to Clay and his little jabs at me. It was not directed at you or your car, yours is silver, not as faggy as pearly white.

Faggy? That's the best you can come up with? What the fuck are you driving anyways? Still that totally sweet Montana? Easy to talk shit when you don't even admit what your ride is.

 

[007]

I know this wasn't addressed to me but i do know a little about photography and dealing with labs.

I have always used Epson. The newer ones are available with archival ink but besides using the inks made by Epson be sure to get the best paper Epson makes. Their inks are formulated to work with the coatings that are on their paper. I use the Premium Glossy Photo Paper and I am still using my old Epson 820. It was less than 80 dollars and puts out lab quality prints if the best paper is used along with Photoshop color correction and sharpening.

I'm going to try and gently side step in here... ahem, and agree with sitarro. I also have an Epson printer. It's a newer one and it prints in the highest resolution of any sold, which is 5,740 X 1970 dpi. The ink is Epsons own, and it won't run when used with Epson photo paper if water is spilled on it. It's print borderless, poster, banner, two sided, on and on. I love it.