[ironguy]

We've been buying the Epson Glossy Photo Paper at Costco. 120 8.5x11 sheets for about $19. I've never seen a better deal. Now I have to get rid of my Epson piece of junk printer. OK, it's not a photo printer, it's a C80, but does OK with photos but it's been nothing but trouble since day one. Originally, it made horrible noises, an extremely noisy paper carriage. Epson replaced it. Still made a racket. Next, paper jammed in it and the black ink continued to spew. Literally, puddles of ink were in the printer.

I'm now glad I read this thread. I like the Canon and HP comments. I thought the HP cartridges were very expensive compared to others. Can anyone comment on prices of cartridges and duration of use or page count?

[ironguy]

We've been buying the Epson Glossy Photo Paper at Costco. 120 8.5x11 sheets for about $19. I've never seen a better deal. Now I have to get rid of my Epson piece of junk printer. OK, it's not a photo printer, it's a C80, but does OK with photos but it's been nothing but trouble since day one. Originally, it made horrible noises, an extremely noisy paper carriage. Epson replaced it. Still made a racket. Next, paper jammed in it and the black ink continued to spew. Literally, puddles of ink were in the printer.

I'm now glad I read this thread. I like the Canon and HP comments. I thought the HP cartridges were very expensive compared to others. Can anyone comment on prices of cartridges and duration of use or page count?

[Macguy59]

I've been using an Epson Stylus Photo 925. It makes outstanding looking prints but is on the slow side. Lately I've been thinking that the cost of printing my own photo's is surpassing the convenience that it affords me.

[PeterB666]

Originally Posted by Gary Sheynkman

Ill go against the grain here. At a quarter a print online photo printing will cost you less and a nice compact/fast inkjet or laser will prove to be better for documents and such :wink:

8O But then not everything is about cost.

Print to my printer, 1 minute. Send to online photo printing. 3 or more days including postage.

Don't like one of the prints and want to crop it, remove red-eye, lighten an area, say 5 minutes (including the first print). With online, nothing within a week, including mail for two lots of photo.

I don't think so.

I print to a cheap multifuntion printer that gives great photo output with standard inks. I get better colour reproduction than I could ever hope for from one of those digital prints for a quarter outfits.

[jeansonline]

I chose a Canon i950D. The current version of this printer is the i960: Really it is very useful for me.