[BUGS] making photos

[Rob Hurle]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Trevor Roydhouse wrote:
> 
> Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> In my experience, inkjets give better colour rendition than laserprinters,
>> though I haven't tried using glossy photo paper in the latter.
>
> I subsequently purchased an Epson 830U colour inkjet in 2003 which still 
> produces excellent photo prints - good enough for my recent passport photos :) 
> For a couple of weeks in 2006 I had an HP 2605DN colour laser and again, it 
> failed to impress for colour photos (quite apart from the inherent flaw in the 
> laser engine it uses and shares with a Lexmark model).

I've used a Canon BJC8200 for colour photos, and it gives excellent results on 
glossy paper, but too expensive for snapshots (my wife is an artist and uses the 
Canon professionally).  I'd be interested to know what the problems were with 
the HP2605dn.  I have one, and it's been great.  Again, I don't use it for bulk 
photo printing, but I've been producing some printed material which contains 
illustrations, many of which are photos.  I've been very happy with it, although 
I think that it may almost be cheaper to buy a new printer on special than to 
replace the toner cartridges!

> In my experience, the biggest factor in quality results is the paper used. We 
> use Kodak ultra-glossy. Almost any colour inkjet is up to the task nowadays, 
> even the HP ones which used to be the worst of the worst.

Agreed.  Archival quality is another problem, but I've not enough experience 
with that.  Canon changed their ink formulation a few years back and I've some 
faded photos of children that were produced using the old formulation.  No 
experience with the new one.

Cheers,
Rob Hurle
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