I got a Canon Pixma all in one for £37 last year on Amazon. It came with a £20 voucher refund from Canon. It prints photos just great. Not bad for £17.I gave up on Epsom printers. If you leave it unused for any length of time the cartridges dry up and you have to replace them.

I recently bought a Epson R285 complete with Continuous Ink System for around £90.

The pictures are superb and the ink costs are very low.

eg The ink for a full A4 print using manufacturers cartridges cost about £2.00 per print whereas using the CIS this drops to around 5p per print.

The Epson R285 is not one of Epson's more recent printers, but is good value and works well for me.

Kodak also doing  new ones and ink at a lowish price.....

all depends what you want from the images ... printers not too expensive  but they make the money on the inks ... cis is a good deal.....if you take the ink you use over a year..depending on how many prints..i bet it would cost a bomb just per litre ...

if you only printing a few images watch out for the ink drying up on the heads... and if only doing a few maybe cheaper to get prints done for you....

I use an HP Photosmart C6280 All-In-One, ok it has 6 ink carts including Black (large).

I have used many printers but this one, in my opinion beats all.

My opinion as to photo output is not just the printer it depends on the quality of paper used.

Its like a camera, thats the part that captures your image, what your image contains ie, detail etc; is down to the user.

Richard - wonderful - you have been missed - I am so pleased you are here!

George - I agree - Inkrite have been excellent.  I normally buy from Choice, but they tell me that Inkrite are no longer alowed to produce Epson compatibles (not sure if this is equine droppings or the truth).  The recycled ones choice supplied last time have caused me no end of problems - even printing out some plain text this evening on the D120 has cost me half an hour of  head cleaning and fiddling even on carts that were fine this morning - so when they are used up the epson will be introduced to its new friend for life, the skip, and I will start over.

Stay away from Epsom unless it will be in use constantly. Cartridges tend to dry up and prints become 'dirty'. I'd go for HP but Canon are good too.

Hello all bloggers. i like to add a good comentary about the question on top. All printers canon, epson, hp, kodak, sony etc, are good for printing pictures. You may be aware that the results may be diferent from brand to brand, even the printers are in the same system (for example: InkJet). Also i can say that in the last year i made an investigation about printing systems and the results are very educational. For example, the laser printing process of fuji frontier 400dpi is good, has very fine detail, but tend to contrasting image, you probably lose details in the dark areas, and the inkjet process the same picture get more detail in dark areas, because the printing process use 300 dpi, less contrast but sufficient dpi for photo quality. So you may be testing the printing systems to choose the better system for your photos.

good afternoon

Rodrigo

Both Canon & Brother have a facility to upload an image to their web site and they'll send you a sample printout from your chosen printer. Which can be A3 in Brothers case.

http://www.brother.co.uk/g3.cfm/s_page/166740

http://www.yourprint.canon-europe.com/

Except this thread is a year old! Think they may have got one by now!

Looks to me like he is telling you all how to do it for a laugh

Maybe wrong if so appologies

Dave

Hello Dave, may be you are asking why i bring the theme back, well, i like photography since i was a child, now a have 35 years and 12 years as a professional photographer. I have entered in this web because of my job, i work at Fujifilm de México and i give support for digital cameras and printers. I became a specialist using all tipes of cameras, not only fuji finepix, and diferent printing services and printers. I want to help people to undestand what photography is. Maybe you no trust in my words, but the thing i can tell you is that i have been made many investigations in the past to understand why the printed photo does not look like what you see in the LCD and Computer Screen. Also i have been ask of why the same paper (Ink jet for example) is printed so diferent way from an epson or an hp printer. That's why i been given responses and advice about the questions above. Now you can see my profile new info about me. Please be aware that i want help you from my desk and experience. So if you want to take or no this advice is ok for me, but please let other people to take it. It may be educational for them.

We are trying to know each other. Please Know me. I am here in mexico, i like photography so bad that i eat, breath, and live for photography, whitout this i am nothing.

Greetings from mexico, beautiful land.

Rodrigo   

Clicking on your link Mike - although it is underlined - does not take me to Rod's profile - just a pink header.

Brilliant Rod - that works and we can now see your profile. Thanks!

Actually i have two points of view, the person who works in the industry, and my experience as a photographer. Maybe i can help someone with this and gain friends all over the world. Some times you need assistance of two different persons, i am a combined one. I have the experience of working in a photo store, a lab, a photo studio, freelance, and now giving support. This experience may be useful for someone, please ask, if you not know nothing about a process inside the making a Good Picture.

write you soon

Rodrigo