In buying a digital camera, you try to save the hassle of buying tape and carrying it to the store every time. On the other hand... photo paper is $$$ printer toners/cartriges are $$$
Personally I found that using your regular inkjet printer is VERY constly
Well - I picked the first option because I have a printer that is an inkjet, but it is no ordinary injket. It is a HP Photosmart 7760 Printer with Photo paper widths, borderless printing, special photo catridge, 1.8" Colour LCD screen for printing from 7 different storage cards
Well, I haven't yet. I've procrastinated way too long. I do have a CD burned and as soon as the weather improves a little, I'll be dropping it off at Costco. I'm interested to see how much 300+ (all doubles...some triples) will cost me. 8O
I use my Canon i950 for printing, and the results are awesome. Yes, Costco would be cheaper, but the convenience factor is what really makes it worthwhile for me. If I need a big print, say 16" x 20", I use www.ofoto.com - they have excellent print quality. Our local Costco can only do 8 x 12. Yes, 8 x 12 - they don't even do a zoom and crop, they just use paper double the size of a 4x6. :roll: They do it to save money, but find me an 8 x 12 frame... :?
I currently use an Epson 950 (I think that is the 960 in the US) but I'm looking to change it, either for the R800 or for a Canon, primarily because there seems to be a design flaw with regard to the CD printing function.
I use my Canon S630 inkjet. It has good color and quality at a reasonable price. I have been using Kodak glossy photo paper and the results are good. My wife uses it for printing her scrapbooking photos.
I am going to see how my Epson CX5200 multifunction does with photos once I replace the color ink in it.
I'm not locked down on any one procedure yet, though I do exclusively edit and print my Olympus C-700 pics on my HP 1215 Photosmart, but For my "Other camera" (an Argus M5700D: AF 38-135mm zoom) I do a "double": I get them developed at Wal-Mart, but I always get the 99 cent digital download version of the pics directly from the stores developer (you upload the pics to Wal-Marts site via the developers batch number, and then download them to your PC in three resolutions up to 2mp). This has worked great for me, and gives me the freedom to have one set in hand, and also have them digitally. This saves me a tremendous amount of time and is actually less expensive than the batteries/paper/ink/time cost of being exclusively digital. The Olympus is too bulky to go on vacation, so it's relegated to "events" like school stuff, recitals, Holidays and the like, so the Argus gets still gets the bulk of the work. The Argus goes on trips because it's light, fast, and I won't be crying a river if it gets broke or lost.
Had Wal-Mart had the digital downloads for a buck when my Mrs gave my my Olympus, I might have had her take it back. I do like it, but it is so (physically)clumsy, slow, and battery eating compared to even the cheapest point and shoot 35mm that my Wal-Mart method is seeming more logical/better to me every time I do it.
The big advantage (for me) with digital is having a large card for the camera and taking gobs of shots, so you'll be able to filter through them later and only print the GEMS, which is why I do still use it for "events".
Now if I can just finish scanning 30 years of negatives and prints that we have from BEFORE the digital revolution...
Depends. For most of my day-to-day stuff, I print on my own photo printer at home. If I need larger prints, then I use a photo lab. Or now that I've started dabling a little in the professional side of things, if I need prints for a client, then I use a photo lab as well.
How do you print your digital pictures?
Linear Mode
