Spec me a Photo Printer

Greenlizard0 · 21 Sep 2006 at 19:09

I have an old HP Deskjet 895Cxi which is fantastic on black and white text documents but isn't that great with colour pictures or on photo paper.

Since I have lots of photos that I may want printing at some point - can anybody suggest a photo printer for me please? My budget is around £100.

I'm not bothered about speed - just quality of my prints.

What sort of paper would you suggest I use as well?

evilowl · 21 Sep 2006 at 20:33

Canon or Epson IMHO. I use a Canon Pixma iP5200 and it's superb for A4 (or smaller) prints. For best results I use Canon PR-101 paper but Ilford Galerie is also very good and cheaper.

If I want to print bigger than A4 then I just use Photobox

wizardmaxx · 21 Sep 2006 at 21:07

Canon Pixa IPXXXX series. Most can print on printable cd's/dvd's as well

WotDa · 21 Sep 2006 at 21:24

wizardmaxx said:
Canon Pixma IPXXXX series. Most can print on printable cd's/dvd's as well

Quoted for truth (*** didn't work). I love my IP5000. Money well spent, can print straight onto CD's for that added bonus, top paper feed, tray feed etc etc. Also has some funky USB port for plugging some cameras in without a PC.