photo printers

[user_deleted]

I'm printing out 8x10s for a portfolio using an Epson Color Stylus 880. Since I am printing the photos at the highest possible resolution (2880 dpi), the photos take 15 minutes to print out! I noticed there are a lot of new photo printers on the market. Can anyone suggest a good one? I heard Epson and Canon are good brands.

[gmask]

Maybe you could try printing at a lower DPI.. 2880 is overkill. Try 600 or even 300 dpi.

[spiderjan]

why not get them bulk printed at a specialise printing place ....not sure where you are so won't surgest specific sites...

may be cheaper and faster....

but $/sheet is way too high for the result you get from that sort of printer

[user_deleted]

I live in LA (the Santa Clarita valley in fact).

[spiderjan]

Sorry I am not US based .....( live down the road from Weta )

but I would have a look around before you print folio work view an Inkjet .... 2880dpi is good resolution but its cost per page is way too high

but you must have a "photocopy" type place that print from CD.

[tito212]

I own a HP photo printer, and it totally rox. It is SUPER quiet and fast, and superb quality. I used to own a Epson, but it was noisy, needed to clean its head waaay too often, and ran out of ink too fast.
HP is the way to go. IMHO.

[bradw]

600dpi is magazine print rez. This should be fine...

your eye wouldnt be able to tell the difference between 600 and 2880!

2880dpi is DEFINATELY overkill

what on earth would print at that res' ????

are your source images 2880???????
hope not.. open them in photoshop if poss and check the dpi
probably find its 72dpi
Screen res ONLY
If you change it to 600 you might find that your image size changes slightly. tweak and photoshop/corel /whatever and test the quality and speed with the test file.

That will answer it for you
hope that helps.
Brad.

[robin-scher]

The problem is that if you lower the print res, it is different than lowering the image res. say you have a 2800 pixel image that you are printing 4x6 at 2800 dpi. That means the printer is stretching the 2800 image pixels to 4 x 2800 = 11,200 pixels. i.e., the printer has a roughly 4x4 pixel area to print each image pixel. This allows the printer to dither its basic ink colors together to get accurate pixel colors for the image pixel.

Lowering the printer's print res will give a smaller area for the printer to dither the colors. this means that the color accuracy will decrease, and that the dither patterns might cross pixel boundaries, making the image appear softer.