Home Photo Printer

[ian in lancs]

My trusty Canon iX4000 3+1 ink A4/3 printer has finally died so I'm looking for a decent replacement. I will use it for general home office printing, pictures to go on my wall at home and occasional portfolio prints. I will also want to print nice B&W prints. I don't want to go mad with features, wireless, LCD screens or how many cartridges! Just decent quality print at home rather than send off for printing.

Any suggestions please?

Ian

[RobDickinson]

What size?

Love my canon pixma pro 1, great bnw if asked, better than Epson if you don't print every day

Doesn't do rolls though

[DavieW]

I've used Epson printers with non-genuine cartridges and they tended to clog the nozzles when not used for a while.
I switched to a Canon using genuine cartridges and have never had any problems.

[RobDickinson]

DavieW said:

I've used Epson printers with non-genuine cartridges and they tended to clog the nozzles when not used for a while.
I switched to a Canon using genuine cartridges and have never had any problems.

Thats just epson printers.. Great if you have throughput keeping them active, terrible if you dont.

canons dont do that but the downside is more expensive head replacement afik.

I have 2 printers a mg-6150 multi func that does all the a4 humdrum and the pro 1 for photo printing

[ian in lancs]

I'm drawn to the Canon PIXMA iP8750 "6-colour system includes grey ink for exceptional colour and mono prints" seems to get decent reviews and can be got for about £170.

[andy-xr]

6x4's - Canon Selphy is a dye sub printer, the packs of paper come with ink and they print lab quality or better

I got one given to me, never really got on with it but mostly because it was a first generation one that only worked with certain O/S's, as long as it was Tuesday and not raining. I hear the later ones are a lot easier to work with and produce colours more accurately and can be networked easier.