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cloaked_wolf
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With all of the decent photos you guys take, what kind of printer do you use? Or do you use professional photoprinters?
I'm aftet one for photos and occasional documents but ideally needs to have networking favilities (pref wireless over wired).
Max £350 budget.
Have normally lent towards HP but some of their more recent products have had less-than-favourable reviews.
Ideas?
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timark_uk
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If you just want occasional prints, I use an HP DeskJet 6940.
It can be pretty heavy on ink for anything more than just an odd A4 full colour print now and again though.
Here at work we also use an Epson Stylus Photo 2100 A3 printer. The ink is extremely expensive but the images it provides are absolutely top notch.
I'll be doing prints of some of my images from both of these printers and giving them as presents, so neither of them provide rubbish reproductions.
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EddArmitage
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I tend to use Photobox for day-to-day printouts, as it were. My uncle does have a HP B9180, though, and I'm hoping to have a play with that over christmas.
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HeatherKay
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I have to say I rarely print my photos. It's not something I feel a need to do at the moment.
Consequently, my current "photo quality" printer is an elderly HP thing, which suits me for now.
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paulzolo
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I have an Epson Stylus Photo R2400. That’s an A3+ printer, uses 7 ink cartridges and has an option to swap out a matte black ink for a glossy one when printing on shiny paper (which I don’t do). Two of the cartridges are shades of grey, so you get very good black and white prints.
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steve74
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The Canon PIXMA range are very good quality (I have the iP4500 at home), I'm not sure which models are wireless but you could easily get a mid-range one for half your maximum budget.
You didn't say whether you need an A3+ model or just an A4 one?
We have an Epson Stylus R1800 (A3+) printer at work and whilst the quality is good if you select the right settings, it takes a lot of fiddling with to get the best out of it and it eats cartridges like you wouldn't believe.
If I was buying one for myself, I'd go with Canon again - not a huge fan of Epsons myself.
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cloaked_wolf
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From recent reviews Canon have improved over the last ten years or so, so will definitely consider them.
Networking is mainly because there are three machines (desktop and two laptops) that will require printing and these days it's a PITA to transfer info to the desktop to print.
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