On 6/25/2012 1:14 PM, John Abreau wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
<m...@buttery.org> wrote:
Photos. Affordable color laser printers don't print them as well as a good
inkjet with special photo paper does.
I find that dye sublimation printers are much better for photos than inkjets.
I'm not sure I'd say "much better", inkjets are quite good at photos
now. And you can't get a good dye-sub printer for $100. But they are
nice if you have the budget.
I'd summarize the advantages and disadvantages as follows:
Inkjet:
Pros: low capital cost, good all-around printing, excellent photo
printing on special paper, energy efficiency
Cons: high supplies cost (especially for low-end printers), text quality
doesn't match laser, some models quite slow, printouts can run (Epson
ink is more water-resistant but their printers have had other problems)
Laser:
Pros: moderate capital cost, high printing speed, excellent text and
business graphics, output is waterproof
Cons: so-so photo printing, energy use, air quality issues (ozone and
particulates)
Dye sub:
Pros: best photo printing
Cons: supply cost is fixed per page, thus poor for jobs that don't cover
the entire page with dye. So-so text. Full-page models are expensive.
Most are one-trick ponies for photo printing; most users will also need
another printer for other purposes.
My personal printer stable is an HP Laserjet 5 for big black and white
jobs and things that need to be waterproof, and an HP Photosmart C6280
for one-off quick printouts and color work. (The Laserjet 5 is too
power-hungry to keep on all the time.) I'll consider a color laser to
replace the Photosmart when it dies but I'm not certain it will be the
right choice because I DO print some photos and use the special photo
paper to do it.
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