Need info on best photo printer for CanonA-95

[rebekahh]

Hello to all,

I have never posted on this site, but I am needing a compact photo printer for a graduation gift.
My daughter's grandparents are giving her a Canon A-95 DC for next week's graduation and we would like to give her a photo printer. We really like the look of the photo dock by Kodak. So we were thinking of something small like that. If bigger is better, we need to know that also. Price is also an issue. We are trying to buy other needed assessories for the camera along with this printer. Is there anyone at this site who could recommend a good photo printer for this camera?
She will be starting a school overseas in Ukraine and she does much with graphic art and powerpoints.

Thank you for any input.

Rebekah :)

[aparmley]

I can highly recommend the Canon i960. with rebate ( I know I hate rebates too) its only 79.99 [orignally 150] over at tigerdirect.com. I bought mine full price from tigerdirect and for me its been worth every penny. Its not a compact printer. But its makes killer prints. I have had mine for about 4 months now and the prints are remarkable. I use my printer to print pictures from my Canon A95 and the 8.5 x 11s are breath taking. The Canon i960 is amazing. But, tigerdirect is the only place I know that you can still get this printer as canon is phasing it out with its new line of pixma printers. Ink will still be made available for this printer so that is not a future concern.

The Canon i960 is not a compact printer by any means but it is worth a look.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=634787&sku=C125-1390

note the 3,072 nozzles. This translates to dropletes of 2 picolitters in size for great detail and fine prints. This also translates to faster print speeds as a printer with only half the number of nozzles would take twice as long to output the same amount of ink. The 6 ink tank system is nice as well [ beats the pants off of the tricolor systems, where you have a black cartridge and a tricolor cartridge, if you run out of only color in the tri color cartridge you must replace the entire cartridge and throw away good ink]. each ink tank costs approx $11 USD so thats nearly 70 dollars to replace all the ink tanks, however, you will only need to replace one at any given time as they all do not get used evenly. Its a pretty efficient set up. I am very happy with my set up. canon A95 + Canon i960... Beats photo labs hands down.
Its worth a look. Good luck she'll be very pleased with the camera!

[rebekahh]

I will look into that right away. I am running out of time for ordering but hope to get this checked out quickly. I have had the Canon Selphy CP 400 recommended to me today because it is compact. I found it on Amazon for 139.00, not too bad, except for all the supplies... it adds up. I had a hard time finding this site after I had logged off. Good thing I had the history to check out.

Thanks again,
Rebekah :)

[SamuraiJack]

I have used a Canon i960 for about almost two years now. I have to agree, it's awesome for photos. If printed on decent inkjet photopaper, it's very hard to tell the difference between i960 prints and regular studio prints. I have been using JetPrintPhoto Portrait Studio Brilliant Satin photo paper that costs about $15 for 50 8.5x11 sheets at Walmart. The results are amazing.

Hope that helps your decision

Wes

[aparmley]

Just also wanted to note that I have heard very good things about the Canon CP printers. But, at 230.00 [the newest I believe] is very costly. The cp 400 is around 135 dollars. Again, that is quite a bit of money for portablitily only. You could invest that money, less actually, into a pixma IP4000 which can do your 4x6s and 5x7s, 8x10s...8.5x11s.. and contact [proof] pages out of a 8.5x11, meaning you have the ability to print any size photographs on one sheet of letter size paper. print a bunch of wallet size photos and cut them out and hand em out... CP printer can't do that and it also acts as a regular desktop printer as well for papers and things like that.

***** I personally think your money is best spent on versatility here not protability. *******

Those are my two cents. Head on over to newegg.com (http://www2.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?submit=PROPERTY&SubCategory=38&propertycodevalue=949:13440&InnerManu=1213) and check the prices... They have reviews of each product buy consumers who have purchased these items, which are useful!! if you want to go with a newer printer model, the Canon IP4000 I mentioned earlier will do quite nicely I am sure, however, if I was looking to buy today I would probably go with the IP5000. and I bet SamuriJack here will agree, if I could I would have gone with i9900, 13x19 prints... ahhhhhh! LOL Good luck.

[D70FAN]

Hello to all,

I have never posted on this site, but I am needing a compact photo printer for a graduation gift.
My daughter's grandparents are giving her a Canon A-95 DC for next week's graduation and we would like to give her a photo printer. We really like the look of the photo dock by Kodak. So we were thinking of something small like that. If bigger is better, we need to know that also. Price is also an issue. We are trying to buy other needed assessories for the camera along with this printer. Is there anyone at this site who could recommend a good photo printer for this camera?
She will be starting a school overseas in Ukraine and she does much with graphic art and powerpoints.

Thank you for any input.

Rebekah :)

You might want to look at some of the lower cost Canon Pixma iP series. The iP 1500 would probably suffice.

Epson makes their picturemate and Stylus Photo series which compete favorably with Canon.

These URLs might help:

http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/controller?act=ProductCatIndexAct&fcategoryid=103

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/Printers.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=0

The final option is to print using the thousands of print kiosks located almost anywhere there is film and memory cards being sold.

Ink refills will end up being the major cost with any printer, so keep that in mind as well. There is a temptation to use generic inks, but they may not have the long term fade resistance of factory cartridges. The same goes for papers.

Hope this helps.

[aparmley]

Good stuff George!

[SamuraiJack]

I bet SamuriJack here will agree, if I could I would have gone with i9900, 13x19 prints... ahhhhhh! LOL Good luck.


Agreed...the i9900 is SUPERB.

Wes

[JTL]

Agreed...the i9900 is SUPERB.

WesI have owned this printer since the day it came out and you would have to kill me to get it away from me! People who haven't seen 8-ink 13x19" prints on Canon Pro paper have no idea what they're missing...

[Rex914]

Epson does make great photo printers, and their inks last longer. But there's this one annoying feature that plagues ALL Epson printers, and it's beyond me why they insist on keeping it this way. Look in the CNET review of the R800 to see what I mean. There are just a few quirks like that that really break the deal for me like its refusal to print when one color runs out or how it freaks out when you change the quality settings.

Other than that, their printers do print out better. But if they can't resolve such simple and integral issues to basic printing, I'm sticking with Canon on this one. Their PIXMA line is so well designed and competitively priced.