[seeemilywrite]

Do any of you have any suggestions for a good photo printer to print out digitals at home. I know all in ones generally arn't good for pictures, I'm looking for something that will be reasonaly cost effective however. I'm particuarly fond of Canon.

[sfharper]

We bought the HP 5150 for about $100. The real cost is the ink. To change to print photo's you replace the black ink cartridge for a photo quality cartridge, otherwise everything else is the same. I've printed my Christmas cards on it for the past three years. With photo's you have to select a lot of options.

[seeemilywrite]

I've heardthat the better photo printers will have seperate colored ink catridges for eachcolor. tghat way if you print for instance a lot of blue, then you dont have to replace the whole thing.

[EbayMom]

We just got the EasyShare by Kodak. Very reasonable....and great looking photos!

[seeemilywrite]

Those arethe ones that plug directly into your camera right? I would want to print large photos thats the only turn off to the model for me. Yours can only do 4x 6 right?

[babydawn]

My husband got me an HP Photosmart printer for Christmas and I LOVE IT! It has the 6 seperate ink cartridges, which I like because I only have to replace the empty ones. I think that the ink is pretty reasonably priced. I pay either $10 for an individual cartridge or $37 for all 6 + 150 sheets of 4x6 photo paper. The printer itself I think cost a little over $200. I am not sure what your budget is, but I love it and I think it is well worth the money. It also comes with some really neat software for making cards, calendars, flyers, etc. You should check it out.

[writehandgirl]

I've been thinking about investing in one of these as well. We have a color Epson, which is a magnificent printer (and you do have to buy seperate cartridges for each color - but I actually find that to be more cost efficient), but for photos, it's just not what I'm looking for. I would love to have one that connects directly to my digital camera. I have a Kodak Easyshare camera with the docking bay, so I'm guessing I need to go with a Kodak photo printer?

[babydawn]

Originally Posted by writehandgirl

I've been thinking about investing in one of these as well. We have a color Epson, which is a magnificent printer (and you do have to buy seperate cartridges for each color - but I actually find that to be more cost efficient), but for photos, it's just not what I'm looking for. I would love to have one that connects directly to my digital camera. I have a Kodak Easyshare camera with the docking bay, so I'm guessing I need to go with a Kodak photo printer?

I am not so sure. Mine has four completely memory card slots to accomodate several different types of cameras. You should check into that. I have a Nikon and can insert my memory card directly into my printer and print photos.

[scrapbookguru]

I have three HP's and I love them - they are all different. I have an all in one HP and it prints absolutely beautifully, so I'm not sure where the misconception is on that.
Epson also has some awesome printers. I love them too.

[writehandgirl]

Originally Posted by babydawn

I am not so sure. Mine has four completely memory card slots to accomodate several different types of cameras. You should check into that. I have a Nikon and can insert my memory card directly into my printer and print photos.

That's true. I just realized that I only use that docking base to recharge my camera. Whenever I put the photos on the computer, I always take the memory card out and insert it into the card slot on my computer. It's just more convenient for me for some reason, so it makes sense that a printer that allows that feature would be a good match as well.