Photo printer

[p0689109]

Can anybody advise me on buying a photo printer for my home use. I have a pc with windows 10 and as we have a new granddaughter we are getting loads of digital photos in email attachments we would like to print as per normal standard photos to put in frames. I have had a look on Google to try and get an idea of what's what and now I am confused. It seems generally the printers are inkjet but you can also get a type called colour dye-sublimation. I went on ebay and found a "Canon Selphy CP910"advertised as such a machine and after reading the technical bumph thought that that was the boy, but I checked another supplier who was a tad cheaper and in that technical data it says it was a inkjet printer!!
Also if I bought one of these printers do they come with the inks or have you got to buy them separately? Normally its the inks that end up being more expensive than the machines like normal paper printers I find. Obviously the paper has to be the correct paper as well so is that expensive too?
On makes is Canon the best or how about Epson?

 

[octo0072000]

have you tried Aldi photo service you just upload all the images
and the photos come by post
photo printers are not cheap to run on ink or paper

 

[anjum]

Speaking from experience with mine I will never buy an Epson inkjet again due to the print heads blocking up when the printer is not used for a short while, cleaning wastes a lot of ink, is not guaranteed to work and they fail altogether after a while.
No such problems with my HP Photosmart.

 

[Wendelspanswick]

Stick the pictures on a memory stick and get them printed off in Boots otherwise you will spend all your granddaughters inheritance on replacement cartridges!

 

[p0689109]

No I did say I wanted to print my own at home!!
I was looking at the Epson and you can get a package with 108 4x6 sheets and 3 ink cartridges for 25 pounds delivered it seems.

 

[eSCHEn]

I got a Selphy for my mother to use as it was good quality print outs and easy for her. This was one of the very first units in the range, don't remember model sorry.

Still going strong years later and the quality is as good as any shop (providing source image is good enough resolution). The unit itself is quite compact and can even be battery powered. It works by dye sublimation as, I believe, all the Selphy range is. I stand happy to be corrected though.

You are very right in avoiding inkjets. Dye sublimation is a much higher quality process in the home.

As others have said the consumables are not cheap but then again this is about printing at home, not printing cheapest isn't it?

I'd pick Canon over Epson but that's just me. It would boil down to who had the easiest/cheapest to get hold of bonafide consumables.

 

[p0689109]

I am favouring the Canon but its the dye sublimation and inkjet that are confusing me. I thought it was one or the other! I suppose the inkjet in the dye sublimation models is just to supply the ink not actually jetting it on the paper maybe??

 

[eSCHEn]

Yes exactly mate. Dye sublimation still uses ink (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sublimation_printer has some good pictures) but doesn't spray through jets like an ink jet.

It is a slower process. Takes about 45 secs to do a 6" x 4" full colour on the one I was describing.

 

[gordon stephenson]

I too have had problems with Epson photo printers, Excellent quality prints but if left idle for a short while heads block up and waste lots of ink to clear,and it doesn't always clear fully, Had much better service from Canon printers

 

[p0689109]

I have bit the bullet and gone with the Canon Selphy CP910 with a pack of paper and ink cartridges from the ebay.

 

[eSCHEn]

I have bit the bullet and gone with the Canon Selphy CP910 with a pack of paper and ink cartridges from the ebay.

I'm sure it will serve you well mate. When I first saw the prints I was impressed by the quality, especially for such a teeny machine.

 

[desmo11225]

Hello P0629109
Hi Grandad !!!!! As well as making and framing loads of your Grand daughters photos, lots of ink will get used !!!!! Think about making SlideShows as well. These you can transfer to CDs/DVDs and show on the TV with a nice big audience as well, Especially when you add commentary and music, I did it on Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 and knocked out my family on my 80th birthday 10 years ago.
Google How to make SlideShows with music and commentary , there's loads of gen and it's a lot easier now than ten years ago , You can add Videos as well, plenty of programmes to do it on as well, I paid but there are plenty of freebees too, ask around and get the young ones to help, if like me your not all that skill ful. Winter is coming BRRRRR that'll keep you quiet in the dark nights but you will thoroughly enjoy the results. Good Luck Enjoy desmo11225

 

[p0689109]

Sounds beyond my ken and I just like to have a photo. Old fashioned I am! We see the bairn regular so that is no worry though they are looking to move a bit further away due work travel distance but that should be not too far. Thanks for input though. Are you really 90 plus?? Wow!

 

[wristpin]

Have had good results from Aldi' s photo service although the return of the prints can be a bit slow.
USB and Boots good too.
Or load the pics onto one of those automated photo frame thingys!
Kodak used to sell a printer specifically for your job and it always came out well in Which tests but not sure whether it's still around!

 

[voipio]

Canon iX6550, more recently the iX6850, prints up to A3 (actually slightly larger, A3+ [33 x 48 cm]). Superb quality photo prints on photo quality papers, and it's useful for lots more besides. Things like plans, schematics, maps, posters, down to 4 x 6" prints.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Old fashioned I am!

Yoda, you are?

 

[CompoSimmonite]

I have two printers Brother laser for bulk / B&W and Kodak for photo's and colour. In the past used to have Epsons but they didn't produce decent photo's whereas the Kodak is as good as the printers in Tesco etc where you put in a memory card / stick or Bluetooth.
AFAIK Home printed, rather than traditional developed pictured, don't last as long when in frames and expoded to light. I've also got a digital photoframe and worth considering for "snapshots" of a new grandchild as you can alter setting so the pictures rotate and have a constant display of them growing up.
BTW learn my lesson - only use genuine ink in the colour printer whereas the laser works perfectly happily on refilled cartridges.

 

[p0689109]

Yoda, you are?

Not I am!!

 

[p0689109]

I have two printers Brother laser for bulk / B&W and Kodak for photo's and colour. In the past used to have Epsons but they didn't produce decent photo's whereas the Kodak is as good as the printers in Tesco etc where you put in a memory card / stick or Bluetooth.
AFAIK Home printed, rather than traditional developed pictured, don't last as long when in frames and expoded to light. I've also got a digital photoframe and worth considering for "snapshots" of a new grandchild as you can alter setting so the pictures rotate and have a constant display of them growing up.
BTW learn my lesson - only use genuine ink in the colour printer whereas the laser works perfectly happily on refilled cartridges.

Thanks for that info. The beauty of having my own printer is that if they do deteriorate then I can always print a replacement! I read about the using the genuine ink and I have bought a package of canon ink and paper to match their machine and will use that as and when.

 

[desmo11225]

Hello p0689109 and pdg
Come on boy's don't chicken out !!!!!!! Have a go at the SideShows , I suppose I am Bragging but the idea is if I can do it any body can , I left school at 14 years and one month and worked in the coal mines for 10 years so I'm no intellectual buff, once again try it. All the best desmo11225 PS Have'nt got to the last O yet, Its next month