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I too received a BestBuy gift card. It's for 200.00 and I'm wondering if I should get a good photo printer. Anybody have recommendations for a brand of printer for this price that gives good results and won't eat me alive in ink and also produces pretty good results with bargain photo paper if I choose to use that?
 
You might have better luck in the Printers and Printing forum. You will certainly get plenty of advice there... Good Luck.
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Stop laughing! :) Seriously, their inkjet offerings are low cost, both up front and in ink/paper consumables.

If you're leery of spending that luscious little gift card on Kodak products, I really like my HP Photosmart 3200. All the graphics arts/design types I know rave consistently about the Epson photo printers. I don't know enough to comment on Canon, so I won't.
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It work pretty good, doesn't have to hooked to a computer, but can be. And it uses 6 different ink cartriges so you don't buy the spendy tricolor and only use some of the inks. Meaning if you use up all the blue, you throw away any other color remaining... You can buy single cartriges or a box of every color and get some 4x6 paper with it. That paper has kept me supplied so I have not bought just paper.
Very simple to use...(good for a lame-brain like me!!)
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I have a Canon and its one of the low end models (ip4300) and I am very happy with the prints.....It took a couple trys to find cheap paper and a profile that worked well with that paper but once done........it gives very good results at a good cost.... I do not believe Walmart can beat the prints or the price......especially if you consider the cost to get there. And I have complete control over the results.
I still get prints done at Wallyworld and online but I also do my own....
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genece said:
I have a Canon and its one of the low end models (ip4300) and I am
very happy with the prints.....It took a couple trys to find cheap
paper and a profile that worked well with that paper but once
done........it gives very good results at a good cost.... I do not
believe Walmart can beat the prints or the price......especially if
you consider the cost to get there. And I have complete control over
the results.
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I have one of those as well. For the price, the print quality (on the right
paper) is really quite good.
The bonus is direct CD/DVD printing (not sure if the USA models do this).

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I have a Canon IP6600D and like it very well. Photos look really good with the right settings and paper. I enabled cd/dvd printing on it and bought a cd tray to print on dvds and I must say I am impressed. I have read good things about Epson, but have not tried them.
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thanks for the help.

I will go over to the printer forums and do a search.(didn't even think of that).
as for the printer suggestions, I will google 'em and see the reviews.

The Walmart gets most of my business right now. Just wondered what was new and since my old HP printer 720c I think is starting to act up, I thought I'd look around. I truly hate how the industry almost makes it more practical to ditch the printer every time I run out of ink.

The seperate multi ink printers sounds good to me. I hate to waste ink.
 
I've got the Canon IP6600D for about a year and it produces great prints. It is also very inexpensive to run.

As for the comment about why get a printer, there are a number of reasons. First off they last a very long time and obsolescence dose not matter as long as you can get ink for it. 8X10 ink jet prints can cost as little as $50 per print 8 x 10 inch and up to about $2 per print depending on the printer and the paper you chose. Try and find a lab that can compete with this. You can proof small and print large to save ink and paper if you don’t have confidence on a difficult print. The printer will also double as a general purpose printer for all your computer work. I send out 16x20 prints. The cost of the printers that do them is too high and I don’t do enough.

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My old photo printer died after three plus years. All of my previous printers were from HP, so decided to stay with the brand. Got the #7360 and have been printing color and black and white photos since yesterday. I am favorably impressed so far. When I paid for it at Staples, the price was $20 less than advertised. Plus I turned in a spent ink cartridge for another $3 off.
 
It may be getting slightly better, but it is still pretty hard to compete with various commercial printers. There are many on line and with the Fuji machines at various stores I get excellent results. They are more durable than inkjet prints and cheaper. Surely you could find a lens, flash or something else to use your gift card for.
 
I spent a couple bucks more and got a great printer--the Canon pixma IP4500 (which some other respondents said they use).

It uses five ink tanks--two different types of black, a cyan, magenta, yellow--and they are not cheap...but, that's the price we pay if we want some good looking prints.

With the Epsons I used to use, I could never get the prints to look like what I saw on my monitor, no matter how much fiddling I did with them.

My Canon--without any fiddling--prints out nearly the exact picture I see on my monitor! And, the prints are really crisp/sharp.
I only paid $116 for it, from the Canon 'E-store' (online; and free shipping).

I've also used Costco, Walgreens, at times...they did a nice job...price was reasonable but I still prefer to print them myself...kinda gives a guy a bit of self-satisfaction, to take his photo from the beginning to the end product :-)

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It is one week since I purchased my HP PhotoSmart D7360. I am totally satisfied with my printing speed and output. It appears to have slightly greater sharpness and richer colors. I like that it take 6 different ink cartridges. What a great machine at well under $100, with sales tax!
 
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