On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:45 -0600, Christine Aguila wrote: > Hi Tony: I'd never heard of these printers, so I googled them & discovered > that they are all-in-one printers--& I didn't check to see what they are > selling for--but I'd like to say this: If you are the Tony that just joined > the list & bought a K20D (which is a pretty serious camera) & are now taking > a night-school photography class, it sounds like you're pretty serious about > learning photography. If so, then I'd suggest you get a photo-dedicated > printer as opposed to an all-in-one. Of course, I don't know your budget & > all your needs etc, so maybe this advice is off base, but why don't you > check out HP, Epson, Canon web sites & see if there is a photo dedicated > printer within your budget. Also, I shot for a year & a half before I had a > photo dedicated printer--I used online printers to do prints--mostly proof > size, but it was something. Also, will you have access to inkjet printers > through your photo class? If so, you might want to use them before you buy > to kind of see what you end up liking with respect to photo dedicated > printers. As to the ink & paper, well you had just better make peace with > the cost of that :-). Just my 2 cents. Cheers, Christine > >
Thanks for that, and yeah, that would be me - got the K20D at Adorama during that 3-day $699 kit sale. Got the Kodak printer today (before I read your email) and have actually been quite pleasantly surprised with it. It was $190 @ Best buy, plus my wife had some sort of 10% off coupon, bringing it down to about $171 plus tax. The cartridges are $10 for black, $15 for color (5-pigment) or $22 for the pair, which is quite cheap compared to that P-O-S Lexmark she's had for a while, while, which I STRONGLY argued against her buying :) I ended up getting the Kodak ESP 7, which has built-in Ethernet and WiFi, which was a BREEZE to set up - it was printing within 20 minutes, from breaking the tape, to getting output. I was also surprised to find out that it also has duplex (double-sided) printing, and has 2 trays: 1 for 4x6 or 5x7 print paper, and then the standard A4/8.5x11-sized adjustable tray. I dropped a photo of hers on the scanner bed, and pressed "copy" and it made a pretty darned good copy for her, so she was also happy. The WiFi is kick-butt - we usually surf/play in the living room on the laptops, and the printers are in the master bedroom near the desk, so this will be a MOST welcome feature! Quality seems pretty good, expecially for the price - maybe later when I get REALLY serious about getting printed output, I'll get something up to the task, but for the next year or 2, this will probably suffice. I'm hoping to be able to afford the Pentax K2000 in White for her when it's released, as I know she saw it and liked it, and then I can drag her kicking-and-screaming into the dSLR world with me :) Right now, she has some sort of HP P&S that came combined with one of those teeny-weeny HP photo printers (the 4x6 portable) and I have been teaching her to use my K20D, well, whatever I've learned so far... Tony -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
