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I'm looking for lists were I can enquire about the relative merits of
printers for digital photos. Is this the best list, or are there others more
on target?

Thanks,

Steve
 
I'm looking for lists were I can enquire about the relative merits of
printers for digital photos. Is this the best list, or are there others more
on target?

Thanks,

Steve
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HUH?? this is a discussion group about printers.
 
I'm looking for lists were I can enquire about the relative merits of
HUH?? this is a discussion group about printers.
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I had to re-read that a couple of times. I'm guessing you're looking
for a list of rankings of the best printers for printing digital
photos. The only way that I know of to create such a list would be if
a non-profit (if there is such thing anymore) consumer business were
to have 3 or 4 models of printers from each major manufacturer, and to
print the identical photo with the same specifications for resolution
and color depths, and compare the outputs with the original photo.
This sounds very expensive and the output would be very speculative
 
I'm looking for lists were I can enquire about the relative merits of
HUH?? this is a discussion group about printers.
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I had to re-read that a couple of times. I'm guessing that you're
looking for a consumer report kind of list of which printers are the
best for printing digital photos?

Although you said for digital photos, as long as a printer printed an
exact duplicate of an original photograph, it would also be able to
print an exact duplicate of a digital photo. So for practicality, I'm
going to give a scenario where a high resolution color photograph is
scanned instead of a digital photo so the judging process of which
printers output is most identical to the original photograph can be
found more easier.

For this list to be created, a non-profit (is there such a thing??)
organization would need to buy 2 or 3 (good, better, best) models of
each major manufacturer of printers. Then they'd have to have an
original photograph of very high quality (let's say a bouquet of
flowers for arguments sake). They'd have to scan the photo of the
flowers with a scanner which would have to be top of the line with the
most accurate color quality and high optical resolution. Then they'd
have to calibrate and tweak the printer so it prints the image as
close as it can to the original photograph. Then they'd have to do
this process with each of the printers, tweaking the printers
resolution and color depth options. Then they would have to compare
the final printed outputs from all the different pringers to the
original photo and rank them from 'most identical' to 'least
identical'.

They would have to spend all that money, do all that work, work all
those hours, all of this, without swaying thier findings, even with
billion dollar corporations willing to bribe them with millions of
dollars, and all for ? (getting a high reputation, selling thier
findings? selling more magazine subscriptions? serving humanity?
geting a warm fuzzy feeling?)

The only place I can think of that would come somewhat close to this
is Consumer Reports (
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/home.jsp?bhfv=0&bhqs=1 ) but they
don't do it for free, and I assume they've swayed thier findings at
some time or another.
 
Roland said:
I had to re-read that a couple of times. I'm guessing that you're
looking for a consumer report kind of list of which printers are the
best for printing digital photos?
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My interpretation was that he was referring to the newsgroup as a
mailing list, judging from the message id he is posting via google
groups, which might explain that.

If my assumption is correct then this is probably the best place to ask
about different sorts of printers, so what questions are there?
 
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