Color Printer For Photos

[Guitarzan]

I have an HP 8620 all in one color inkjet printer that is probably 7 years old and worked well for a while, it even synched with my old Windows XP desktop wirelessly until I went to Windows 10 belatedly. Even with the updated drivers it never would work wirelessly with W10 despite much time expended. The cartridges are expensive and I got all kinds of funny readings about them being empty when they were not. It scanned well on a small scale and made black and white copies well for a while but was not exceptional at anything. I bought a separate Fujitsu scanner that is great and will not go back to an A-I-C.

I need to print color photos now and then and sometimes other documents in color. When I print color photos, I often need them in an 8.5 x 11 format. I want good quality in photo printing that the standard color printer has not always provided. I am virtually to the point of concluding after research that one needs a dedicated color printer for photos and that he should plan to print other color documents on a separate laser printer. In other words, it appears that I need purchase a separate machines for each task that does that task well (as I did with the Fujitsu scanner).

Is that an accurate conclusion about the state of technology in color printing as a small business office level of cost?

What color photo printers are the better choices for the small business office with occasional use?

 

[PhoenixBill]

I have an HP 8620 all in one color inkjet printer that is probably 7 years old and worked well for a while, it even synched with my old Windows XP desktop wirelessly until I went to Windows 10 belatedly. Even with the updated drivers it never would work wirelessly with W10 despite much time expended. The cartridges are expensive and I got all kinds of funny readings about them being empty when they were not. It scanned well on a small scale and made black and white copies well for a while but was not exceptional at anything. I bought a separate Fujitsu scanner that is great and will not go back to an A-I-C.

I need to print color photos now and then and sometimes other documents in color. When I print color photos, I often need them in an 8.5 x 11 format. I want good quality in photo printing that the standard color printer has not always provided. I am virtually to the point of concluding after research that one needs a dedicated color printer for photos and that he should plan to print other color documents on a separate laser printer. In other words, it appears that I need purchase a separate machines for each task that does that task well (as I did with the Fujitsu scanner).

Is that an accurate conclusion about the state of technology in color printing as a small business office level of cost?

What color photo printers are the better choices for the small business office with occasional use?

Maybe it would be more cost-effective just to go to Office Depot and pay them to print them. I have a color inkjet that I seldom use and every time I want to fire it up, the cartridges are dry. My B&W laser printer gets all the use, it can sit for days without any issues. Although, now that it’s going on 8 years old, it’s getting long in the tooth too…

 

[Guitarzan]

Convenience is an issue.

Sometimes I need it without advance time and don't need to waste time running around.

I may need to buy a good photo printer and then a laser color printer for documents.

 

[ChicknPickn]

Inkjets should be outlawed. They're little more than vehicles for grossly overpriced ink. If they're not used regularly, their microscopic jets clog and image quality is atrocious.

I beg people shopping for new printers to buy lasers if that is at all within their budget. If they can't do that, then, as another person has posted, they should take their files to an office center to have them rendered in laser quality.

 

[Dismalhead]

S.O. was doing fancy scrapbooking things that required good photo quality, so we bought an Epson XP7100. Photos are fantastic. Ran us around $200. I've only bought ink once for it and I do think it was like $50 for refill cartridges. It's got five cartridges.

 

[ChicknPickn]

Maybe it would be more cost-effective just to go to Office Depot and pay them to print them. I have a color inkjet that I seldom use and every time I want to fire it up, the cartridges are dry. My B&W laser printer gets all the use, it can sit for days without any issues. Although, now that it’s going on 8 years old, it’s getting long in the tooth too…

I had a (laughably huge) commercial Xerox printer in my home that was pretty old when the company that owned it put it out at the curb. I wrestled it into my truck and found that it was in working shape. When I finally decided to buy something more reasonably sized, it was still printing clean and sharp, and was probably around 20 years old at that point. An engineering firm wanted it and took it away for me.

 

[Toto'sDad]

After buying countless ink cartridges for an HP printer, I decided to try something different. Bought a Brother printer, it's a little harder to set up than an HP but it works a whole lot better. My wife is constantly scanning and printing pictures. The photos are just as good, and the printer cartridges are individually replaceable, and are a LOT cheaper.

 

[Ironwolf]

My HP OfficeJet Pro 8710 is a great general purpose color printer. That being said, it is not a printer for high quality photo printing. For photo printing I use a Canon Pro 100 wide format 8 color photo printer. It produces framing and competition quality photos up to 13" by 19".

 

[Hey_you]

Check out Dye Sublimation Printers.

 

[Linkslover]

Look into Canon image class color lasers. Good value - $300 to $400 and workhorses.

Very reliable and wifi capable.

 

[stephent2]

in my experience, Epson for higher quality prints, Canon for reliability. I've had both, the Canon is a great printer. I have a 13x19, eight cartridge Pro100. Very good prints w/o issues, unlike the Epson I had before. Awful ink sputters and smudges, clogged ink heads,..