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Looking For Quality A4 Photo Printer
Hi,
I'm in the market for a new A4 inkjet printer - specifically for printing photo's as my trusty Canon i850 has bitten the dust - literally, I dropped it down the stairs from my office! I've used Canon for many years and I have read good things about the PIXMA IP6700D - but I think this is no longer available. My other option was the PIXMA IP4600 - but I heard that this was a downgraded IP4500? So now I'm not sure what to go for - is there a better Canon option withhout going to the expense of the PRO range. Or is there a EPSON/HP/ Or other make out there that tops the Canons. Looking to spend £100 - £150 ish But at the end of the day it's quality prints I'm looking for. Thanks Kev |
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Looking For Quality A4 Photo Printer
On Oct 8, 4:23 pm, alphawave wrote:
I've used Canon for many years and I have read good things about the PIXMA IP6700D - but I think this is no longer available. My other option was the PIXMA IP4600 - but I heard that this was a downgraded IP4500? So now I'm not sure what to go for - is there a better Canon option withhout going to the expense of the PRO range. Or is there a EPSON/HP/ Or other make out there that tops the Canons. Looking to spend £100 - £150 ish If you're pleased with canon, go canon. Unfortunately you are correct, the ip6700D has been abandoned, and the solution solution you can likely get is the mp970, which offers 7 tanks, same compliment as the ip6700D, but with an extra pigmented black. But I would guess that will run you about £180 at PC world. I would pick the ip4500 over the ip4600 due to the cost of ink being LOWER per page for the ip4500, and the ip4600 has decreased the size of it's text printing head. If you can't find an ip4500 you can find a multi-function http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/stor... category_oid= £95.04 Here is a review http://www.steves-digicams.com/2007_...non_mp610.html I can only speak directly about the mp830, and ip5200, which are slightly older models than the ip4500. Photo printing is pretty damn good on them, but the ip6700D had an advantage over them in the fact that it had small drops for yellow and black. You tend to see large blocky areas on swellable polymer paper on the ip5200 and mp830 where it uses yellow and black. Cyan and magenta have a choice of large or small drops. Aside from that minor complaint, it's still a pretty stellar photo printer and not a bad text printer either. The ip4500 added medium sized drops, which I presume (haven't seen) is good on papers that the small 1pl drops don't work well. ------ In the not canon you have the HP d5460 starting at £100. It's a new model so I can't speak from direct experience, but Druckerchannel did a review on it, and it's now in English http://www.druckerchannel.de/artikel...osmart_d 5460 It might cost a little more to print black text, but there at least seems like it does a slightly better job than Canon at least according to druckerchannel. Photos I'd have to see side to side to tell. ----- Epson is still offering their Epson Photo R285, Price inc VAT £49.99. My last experience with Epson was the r200, well excluding my a3+ printers. As such I can't fairly compare what I have vs the R285. I can compare the r200 to the ip4000 and the r200 was certainly better on CDs, and required less color tweeking for CDs to look good. The blacks on the ip4000 seemed to be shifted slightly toward the blue. For photos, the r200 won. Mine went kaput, and it was cheaper for me to sell the ink and buy a canon, which to be fair offered the better general purpose printer, then it was for me to continue using the Epson. One Epson drawback is it uses a pump to clean the heads. Installing it for the first time sucks up the ink, and from my observation it seems to waste much ink in the cleaning process. The benefit is the fact the head doesn't typically suffer from burnouts, only clogs. The Canon, you can throw money at it to fix a printhead. I presume the same is true for the new HP as well. ---- So there you have it, three options to look at. Canon AIO for 100 quid, the mp610 The HP stand alone also 100 quid The epson r280 for 50 quid. |
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Looking For Quality A4 Photo Printer
On 9 Oct, 03:46, IntergalacticExpandingPanda
wrote: On Oct 8, 4:23 pm, alphawave wrote: I've used Canon for many years and I have read good things about the PIXMA IP6700D - but I think this is no longer available. My other option was the PIXMA IP4600 - but I heard that this was a downgraded IP4500? So now I'm not sure what to go for - is there a better Canon option withhout going to the expense of the PRO range. Or is there a EPSON/HP/ Or other make out there that tops the Canons. Looking to spend £100 - £150 ish If you're pleased with canon, go canon. *Unfortunately you are correct, the ip6700D has been abandoned, and the solution solution you can likely get is the mp970, which offers 7 tanks, same compliment as the ip6700D, but with an extra pigmented black. *But I would guess that will run you about £180 at PC world. I would pick the ip4500 over the ip4600 due to the cost of ink being LOWER per page for the ip4500, and the ip4600 has decreased the size of it's text printing head. *If you can't find an ip4500 you can find a multi-function http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/stor...essionID=@@@@0.... £95.04 Here is a reviewhttp://www.steves-digicams.com/2007_reviews/canon_mp610.html I can only speak directly about the mp830, and ip5200, which are slightly older models than the ip4500. *Photo printing is pretty damn good on them, but the ip6700D had an advantage over them in the fact that it had small drops for yellow and black. *You tend to see large blocky areas on swellable polymer paper on the ip5200 and mp830 where it uses yellow and black. *Cyan and magenta have a choice of large or small drops. *Aside from that minor complaint, it's still a pretty stellar photo printer and not a bad text printer either. The ip4500 added medium sized drops, which I presume (haven't seen) is good on papers that the small 1pl drops don't work well. ------ In the not canon you have the HP d5460 starting at £100. *It's a new model so I can't speak from direct experience, but Druckerchannel did a review on it, and it's now in English http://www.druckerchannel.de/artikel...6&t=test_hp_ph... It might cost a little more to print black text, but there at least seems like it does a slightly better job than Canon at least according to druckerchannel. *Photos I'd have to see side to side to tell. ----- Epson is still offering their Epson Photo R285, Price inc VAT £49.99. *My last experience with Epson was the r200, well excluding my a3+ printers. *As such I can't fairly compare what I have vs the R285. *I can compare the r200 to the ip4000 and the r200 was certainly better on CDs, and required less color tweeking for CDs to look good. The blacks on the ip4000 seemed to be shifted slightly toward the blue. *For photos, the r200 won. *Mine went kaput, and it was cheaper for me to sell the ink and buy a canon, which to be fair offered the better general purpose printer, then it was for me to continue using the Epson. One Epson drawback is it uses a pump to clean the heads. *Installing it for the first time sucks up the ink, and from my observation it seems to waste much ink in the cleaning process. *The benefit is the fact the head doesn't typically suffer from burnouts, only clogs. *The Canon, you can throw money at it to fix a printhead. *I presume the same is true for the new HP as well. ---- So there you have it, three options to look at. Canon AIO for 100 quid, the mp610 The HP stand alone also 100 quid The epson r280 for 50 quid. Thanks Inter, I'll have a quick Google to see if i can find a 6700D - but I'm not holding out much hope! I'm not a fan of Epson but I'll check out the HP and the Canon Multi's. The printer will be used 99.99% of the time for photos - usually use office laser for documents. Cheers, Kev |
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