Photo printers A3 or bigger at an affordable price

Having gotten some rather mixed results from professional photo print shops, I printed my test picture on my venerable HP PSC 750 just on a lark. Lo and behold, the colors were good, and with a lightening applied at print time, they were much closer to what I saw on the screen than the print shops could provide. Thus, I now find a good printer to be more important for my photo work than a new lens, and am starting to collect notes on photo printers I might want to invest in for fine arts photography. What I want is photo-quality printing in at least A3 size.

goecker.dk^? has useable information.

Inks: CcMmYyKkk^?*RGB = Cyan, Light Cyan, Magenta, Light Magenta, Yellow, Light Yellow, Black (Key), Light Black, Light Light Black, Red, Green, Blue.

Under DKK 5000:

• Epson Stylus Photo R1800: DKK 3700, CMYKkRG^? + gloss optimizer, 13" (33 cm) width. review on ShutterBug. Sounds like this is enough for my purposes thus far -- so all I need to find is something as good that's cheaper. Has panorama up to 10 m! This is a very serious contender.

• Canon PIXMA i9950: DKK 4000 (goecker), CcMmYRGK^?. 13" (33 cm) width. No panorama?

• HP PhotoSmart^? 8750: DKK 3750 (akam), CcMmYBKkk^?* (and others?), 13" (33 cm) width. No panorama?

• Epson Stylus Photo 1290S: DKK 3000, CcMmYK^?, fading problems.

• HP DeskJet^? 9800: DKK 2750, CMYK

• HP DeskJet^? 9800d: DKK 3350, CcMmYK^?

• HP Business Inkjet 2800: DKK 3825, CMYK

• HP Deskjet 1280: A3+, DKK 2500,

Canon i9100 Photo Printer, CcMmYK^?, 13"

Above DKK 5000:

• Epson Stylus Photo R2400: DKK 6500, CcMmYKkk^?*, 13" (33 cm) width. No panorama,

CMYK Only:

Since I can see printers with more than just CMYK, I'm going to rule out any printer that's just CMYK. For my future reference, here they are (since that information seems to be rather hidden):

• Canon PIXMA iX4000: DKK 2262, A3+, CMYK

• HP Business Ink Jet 2300: DKK 2750, A3+, CMYK

• Canon PIXMA iX5000: DKK 3075, A3+, CMYK

• HP OfficeJet^? Pro K850: DKK 3400, A3, CMYK

• HP OfficeJet^? PRO K850dn: DKK 4323, A3, CMYK

• Canon Bubble Jet i6500: DKK 3000, CMYK

• Epson Stylus Color 1520: DKK 4600, A2!, CMYK

-- LarsClausen - 04 Aug 2006
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