Posted on 03/30/2024 8:05:06 PM PDT by wgmalabama
I purchased a decent network laser printe earlier this year and it’s been great. . It’s been great. Now we have grandkids and I learn that inkjet printers do a much better job of printing pictures. So I am looking for recommendations for network inkjet photo printers. My last one sucked (10 years ago) ate ink and never operated well. I figured there were some ameture photography people that could recommend a good network printer for pictures. The laser will handle everything else. One that works with apple/MS os would be great.
Anyone have a good recommendation that doesn’t just freeze up, eat ink …. Any help would be appreciated. Price in the up to $600 or more is ok. Less is better because wife will be printing like crazy.
It never dawned on me that inkjet would be better than laser at anything. But apparently photos is that one key area.
They bought EDS, then took away any benefits EDS had that HP didn’t, but didn’t give the former EDS employees any of the benefits that HP had that EDS didn’t.
They also cut everyone’s salary by 10%.
I could go on, but I’ll just leave it with this: We called HP “hopeless and pathetic”.
My last experience with an HP product was a laptop I bought at Costco a couple of years ago. I had it for 3 whole days before the screen died with a 2 inch wide black spot in the middle. Went from the top to the bottom.
I returned it and got a Lenovo, which is working fine to this day.
Prior to that I had another HP laptop, the plastic on it started cracking everywhere, and one day I opened it up and the hinge broke out of the front of the screen bezel.
Done with HP. Only reason I bought the 2nd HP laptop is that it was cheap. The Lenovo I returned it for was another $200 but it seems to have been worth it.
When I’m able to get a printer to print a spooled job, even while it’s screaming that there are umpteen things wrong - I know that Hewlett-Packard is trying to trick another elderly chump into buying another over-priced printer.
Printers are one of the worst pieces of tech you’ll ever deal with. I’ve given up on many printers through the years.
Sorry, no real recommendations other than that.
I love my Canon Pixma Pro-10 It uses pigments instead of dyes and makes beautiful prints.
I enjoy my color laser and it is fine for me and makes fine photo prints. I don’t print much so a laser is best. It is a nice Brother I got at Costco. I will never buy another inkjet.
If you need nice prints go to a professional printshop. For home stuff. I would stick with a color laser printer. Costco has good all in ones for 3-4 hundred. You won’t regret the higher upfront cost in multitudes of savings with ink problems. My last color laser lasted over twenty years and photos printed quite well. The new one is great and near photographic quality on proper paper.
Canon is a pretty good name in my book.
excellent recommendation.
Get a Epson Ecotank printer
https://epson.com/ecotank-home-office-printers
The more colors the better photo prints. They have 4 and 6 colors.
Also you want auto 2 sided printing. Auto duplexing.
Go to Amazon and type in a model and read the comments.
All inkjets will clog but with a Ecotank you have a large bottle of ink to run nozzle check and head cleaning cycles test prints.
Far cheaper then a regular inkjet where the small cartridges are expensive.
They are large printers so look at where you will put the printer.
I’ve found Brother color laser printers stand up very well.
A previous one needed drums replaced and after I finally located an OEM set, I gave it to a relative a few years ago.
I think it still works.
On the second one for a couple of years now.
A friend of mine did wedding photography and also worked at a Sam’s Club.
Usually the pros did their prints through the processing at the store.
I haven’t printed a photo in maybe a decade locally or through a commercial place.
I can hardly think of anything that I despise more than a printer.
“I’m not current, but look at photo-specific printers from Epson, and maybe Canon.
“Look for the models with the ink tanks you can refill.”
We have two of the Canon G6020 PIXMA inkjets and are happy with them. Hubby uses them to print his astrophotography images. They have the tanks instead of cartridges which last a long time. Have had the printers for about two years, and just last month had to replenish a couple of the color tanks.
With the improvements in technology, I expect there are even better models out there.
Cheaper and easier to email them to Walmart for printing than to go through the expenses for inks and special paper.
Some of their laser printers have a chip in the toner cartridge, which prevents you from using a non-HP toner. Unless you remove the chip from the old toner and install it in the new one.
Oh, when I worked at HP, they had an entire web page on the intranet to tell employees why HP ink cartridges are better and why they should not be refilled, with instructions to tell all your friends and family.
I agree, I have an Epson 3710 with refillable cartridges. I am still on the original fill after 2 years....granted, 95% I print is B&W and only a couple hundred pages per year, but a cartridge printer would be empty within months or clogged up needing deep cleaning. (I realize the printhead might be the same for both styles, but this is a great printer.)
Time for the Office Space video excerpt.
I agree that HP is an inferior product. Also for ink, I buy it on Ebay at a good price.
I have gone through many printers over the years. I bought my second Epson about two years ago. It is the bulk ink tank style and it is the first ink jet that I can enthusiastically recommend. The whole ink sales rip-off that most other printers engage in is over for me. Whatever you do, don’t buy any printer that requires you to purchase anything but ink.
ost printers these days will work from your network.
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