How much graphics to chose photo printer ?

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Morgan Ohlson

Let's say an ordinary soho (small office home office) make a few ink jet
copies every day.

How many % of this should be photos or graphics to motivate the choice of a
photo printer, 6-color system?


Morgan O.
 
Hi,

Go to a computer store and look at the printers. Make a determination
for what you will be satisfied with for output. Photo printers will
certainly cost one more to run in the long run, but that may hardly be a
factor in your decision if your tonal value outweighs your wallet. A 4
(black, magenta, yellow, blue) color printer may produce perfect results for
you, but you are the best judge of that.
 
Jan Alter said:
Hi,

Go to a computer store and look at the printers. Make a determination
for what you will be satisfied with for output. Photo printers will
certainly cost one more to run in the long run, but that may hardly be a
factor in your decision if your tonal value outweighs your wallet. A 4
(black, magenta, yellow, blue) color printer may produce perfect results for
you, but you are the best judge of that.
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One of the things maki'n me ask, is that photo printers usually also are
slower in black text.

So, I'm asking just because the answer is somewhat more delicate than you
indicate.
 
I have two photo printers - Canon s820 & i950. Both produce acceptable text
documents on plain paper, but they aren't up to what a non photo printer can
produce either in speed or output quality. But that doesn't concern me as I
also have a couple of laser printers. I see the Canon i860 as the ideal
bridge between fast, high quality text output and photo printing that is
very near to that of the photo printers. If text printing and photo output
are both of equal concern the i860 would be ideal or a photo printer and an
inexpensive laser printer.
 
Ron Cohen said:
I have two photo printers - Canon s820 & i950. Both produce acceptable text
documents on plain paper, but they aren't up to what a non photo printer can
produce either in speed or output quality. But that doesn't concern me as I
also have a couple of laser printers. I see the Canon i860 as the ideal
bridge between fast, high quality text output and photo printing that is
very near to that of the photo printers. If text printing and photo output
are both of equal concern the i860 would be ideal or a photo printer and an
inexpensive laser printer.
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Can I interprete that as:

Only photos, take a photo printer
Only black text, take a laser
Mixed printouts take a Canon i865


Morgan O.
 
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