What printers do you use to print your photos?

mpenza · 9th April 2003

Choose the printers that you use most often....

ckiang · 9th April 2003

What if I own a Fuji Frontier 350 Digital Minilab?

Regards
CK

mpenza · 9th April 2003

choose Minilabs!

For "photo labs", I meant sending pics/film/negatives/slides to the shop for printing. whether they use minilabs or whatever is not important....

MaGixShOe · 9th April 2003

Canon S820
its slow and had a greenish cast on photo, but heard that it can be adjusted but adding more of certain colour

erwinx · 10th April 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by MaGixShOe
Canon S820
its slow and had a greenish cast on photo, but heard that it can be adjusted but adding more of certain colour

my canon s800 doesn't have a green cast and what i've seen of the s820, it doesn't have a green cast either. there may be something wrong in your workflow? s820 is pretty fast if you've been using a budget epson like 810

Wai · 10th April 2003

Used to own full range of inkjet, mono laser and colour laser from all the manufacturers in the world

if need advise in buying probably i can help

Adam Goi · 10th April 2003

Haha ... so far I have no intention to have them printed for 2 simple reasons.

1. No space to keep them.
2. No quality work, print for what?

mylau · 10th April 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by MaGixShOe
Canon S820
its slow and had a greenish cast on photo, but heard that it can be adjusted but adding more of certain colour

it'll will be faster if you dun use the highest setting.

MaGixShOe · 10th April 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by erwinx
my canon s800 doesn't have a green cast and what i've seen of the s820, it doesn't have a green cast either. there may be something wrong in your workflow? s820 is pretty fast if you've been using a budget epson like 810

no previously i was using the Epson 740
the 820 is slow compared to the 5series from canon.

i was wondering why is there a greenish cast also... i compare the print from the lab and mine from the s820, same photo, the black seems abit greenish thats all

overall the quality is great

blizzy · 10th April 2003

wats the cost of printing 4R at home? how much is the paper... and the ink catridges?

Jer76 · 10th April 2003

i tried the printing services at fotohub.com, i must say they are good

Goldmember · 10th April 2003

tried the canon i950 in my company. its the fastest 4r print i have ever seen. can confidently say that it took less than 20 seconds. quality wise, 5 stars.

Azure · 12th April 2003

I used to use inkjets (like 18 or more months back). Then I discovered somethings called Frontier and Durst Lambdas....

Anyway I send all my (modest few) digital shots to FDI labs now.

14th April 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by Azure
I used to use inkjets (like 18 or more months back). Then I discovered somethings called Frontier and Durst Lambdas....

Anyway I send all my (modest few) digital shots to FDI labs now.

Hiya.. eh can elaborate abit more on the FDI labs? where to find and what's the cost like?

ckiang · 14th April 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by Harrican
Hiya.. eh can elaborate abit more on the FDI labs? where to find and what's the cost like?

FDI = Fuji Digital Imaging. A lot of Fuji labs are FDI labs. E.g. Colour Lab, Konota, RGB, etc.

Regards
CK

lennon · 17th April 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by blizzy
wats the cost of printing 4R at home? how much is the paper... and the ink catridges?

Depends on wihch printer are you using, diff printers have diff paper recommendations which has diff price.. and the price of the ink differs as well.

Just to give a rough idea, I'm using S820, ink costs 14.33 X 6(colours) = 90$ but you can print hundred over of A4 photos already.

Canon photo paper pro A4 20 sheets costs about 18$.

If you'll be printing more than 30pics, might as well bring it to FDI.. i think it will save you cost and effort.

Rgds,

Azure · 18th April 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by Harrican
Hiya.. eh can elaborate abit more on the FDI labs? where to find and what's the cost like?

CKiang's right. Last I checked their website, they listed 20+ FDIs in Singapore. Price-wise, they are supposedly controlled by Fuji - $0.50 per 4R print with a $5/- handling fee. But if you are a regular customer...... well, I getting mine at $0.30 aprint, minimum 10 x 4R.
Hmmm.... I'm sending some for printing at KT Color at Upp Cross St. Maybe should ask the boss there to offer a blanket rate to CS members?

25th April 2003

For 4R printing, I feel sending to a photo lab will get up a better quality and better price per print ratio.

unless you only want to print 1 or 2 sheets for a friend.

For A4 (8R) printing, The price per print ratio, tend to favour the inkjet printing as the photo labs charge pretty high for an 8R print.

A A4-size Photo Paper Pro, costs below $2 and add the inks spent, the total cost should not exceed $3 for ink-jet printing.

Harlequin · 9th July 2003

I'm using a Canon S820 and like the speed and quality.

On Canon Photo Paper Pro or Canon Glossy Plus papers, the print quality is very good.

Have recently changed from Canon original ink cartridges over to a 3rd party brand, Sepom at S$8.50 per piece (50% discount man !)

Also tried Kodak Glossy Papers 4R at S$8.50 for 30 pcs. Quality of the printout is as good as the Canon Glossy Plus paper.

bimmer · 22nd July 2003

Hi guys,
Is it advisable to use 3rd party brand photo paper to print? Saw a Taiwan brand photo 4R paper selling less then $9.00 for 50 pieces at Sim Lim.

View Poll Results: what printers do you use....
Inkjet/Bubblejet	271	57.05%
Dye Sublimation	35	7.37%
Laser	9	1.89%
Minilabs	14	2.95%
Others	2	0.42%
Photo labs	97	20.42%
I never print!	47	9.89%
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9th April 2003	#1
mpenza Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: New York City Posts: 13,397	What printers do you use to print your photos? Choose the printers that you use most often.... Last edited by mpenza; 9th April 2003 at 11:51 PM.

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MaGixShOe Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 2,638	Canon S820 its slow and had a greenish cast on photo, but heard that it can be adjusted but adding more of certain colour __________________ Photo Gallery http://magixshoe.clubsnap.org/gallery

10th April 2003	#6
Wai Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: South Pole with Penguins Posts: 5,133	Used to own full range of inkjet, mono laser and colour laser from all the manufacturers in the world if need advise in buying probably i can help __________________ We are HDD of PC & FT are MB add to storage; so PC never hangs with enormous storage capacity - LKY

9th April 2003	#2
ckiang Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Singapore Posts: 6,597	What if I own a Fuji Frontier 350 Digital Minilab? Regards CK

9th April 2003	#3
mpenza Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: New York City Posts: 13,397	choose Minilabs! For "photo labs", I meant sending pics/film/negatives/slides to the shop for printing. whether they use minilabs or whatever is not important....

10th April 2003	#7
Adam Goi ClubSNAP Idol Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Jalan Suka Posts: 5,321	Haha ... so far I have no intention to have them printed for 2 simple reasons. 1. No space to keep them. 2. No quality work, print for what?

10th April 2003	#10
blizzy Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Bedok South Posts: 616	wats the cost of printing 4R at home? how much is the paper... and the ink catridges?

10th April 2003	#11
Jer76 Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Posts: 1,109	i tried the printing services at fotohub.com, i must say they are good

10th April 2003	#12
Goldmember Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Moon Posts: 376	tried the canon i950 in my company. its the fastest 4r print i have ever seen. can confidently say that it took less than 20 seconds. quality wise, 5 stars.

12th April 2003	#13
Azure Deregistered Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: ClubSNAP community Posts: 2,783	I used to use inkjets (like 18 or more months back). Then I discovered somethings called Frontier and Durst Lambdas.... Anyway I send all my (modest few) digital shots to FDI labs now.

25th April 2003	#18
newuser Guests Posts: n/a	For 4R printing, I feel sending to a photo lab will get up a better quality and better price per print ratio. unless you only want to print 1 or 2 sheets for a friend. For A4 (8R) printing, The price per print ratio, tend to favour the inkjet printing as the photo labs charge pretty high for an 8R print. A A4-size Photo Paper Pro, costs below $2 and add the inks spent, the total cost should not exceed $3 for ink-jet printing.

9th July 2003	#19
Harlequin Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: East of Singapore Posts: 1,651	I'm using a Canon S820 and like the speed and quality. On Canon Photo Paper Pro or Canon Glossy Plus papers, the print quality is very good. Have recently changed from Canon original ink cartridges over to a 3rd party brand, Sepom at S$8.50 per piece (50% discount man !) Also tried Kodak Glossy Papers 4R at S$8.50 for 30 pcs. Quality of the printout is as good as the Canon Glossy Plus paper.

22nd July 2003	#20
bimmer New Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 25	Hi guys, Is it advisable to use 3rd party brand photo paper to print? Saw a Taiwan brand photo 4R paper selling less then $9.00 for 50 pieces at Sim Lim.