Really? That flips the whole costing. Anyone has any experience with the ink usage of HP photo printers?
^ prepare to pay much more than you thought.
I dont know where who me is getting the numbers from. I have used the HP printer for almost 2 years now. One cartridge will give you upto 75 prints.
75 pages on photo quality? Thats still a lot. My current HP has the cartridge on half after 5 photo prints :p . But then....its a cheapie with small buckets.
In hp specs it says 450, 15% coverage, pages per tricolor cartridge (surprise surprise). Thats 150/color. A standard text page is ~5% coverage, just for comperison.
These specs are not at top quality on photo paper (which needs more ink). They usually quote draft or standard quality.
who---me, where are you getting HP specs... Is it some online manual? I am searching for ink usage and didn't get any reviewer to tackle this question.
The other option is to use some online photo printing service. 29 cents is probably the cheapest, with ofoto offering free shipment. But I do want to do a basic feasibility calculation whether it makes any financial sense to go for a photo printer or not
Sorry for causing the confusion… I was in a hurry … and mixed my thoughts.
The Epson Stylus Photo 900.. it prints CD's and DVD's too
So, how did we move from 970 pages (@15% cov) to 20-40 pages of photos? :konfused:
Thats a 38ML cartridge and costs 94 bucks, scroll down. I am pretty sure when the sales guy said 500 pages he meant the 19 ml one.
Who-Me is providing better numbers than the sales rep. To say you can get 500 prints is outrageous.
That 970 is based on a text document PROBABLY on draft mode or equivalent(printer mfgs display draft mode results as they produce the most prints and wow uneducated customers). A full page of text would constitute as more than 15% coverage. I assume for photos you’ll print on best quality where the coverage is 100% and where ink is wasted like hell (layers upon layers of ink is applied), so you wont be able to pull more than 100 prints. Thats being generous.
Ok my mistake
Hp says
for 7550 17ml photo cartridge. Far from 500 though plus I’d still be skeptical about their numbers. Taken From:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06c/A10-12771-69422-56983-69422-46085-46086-46088.html
Well, even if I ignore the cost of printer (~$200) by saying it will be used as a general printer too, the running costs will only make financial sense if a $50 catridge combo prints 200 4x6 prints.
200 4x6 sheets @$12 = $0.06 per print
200 ink @50 = $0.25 per print
Total: $0.31 per print
At only 100 photos, the cost jumps to $0.56 per print.
To print via online printers or even proper stores like Walmart, is 29 cents per print (plus S&H). So its hard to make a case to buy a $200 printer and incur running costs of twice what we can get from lab quality prints.
add to that the hassle of proper color calibration and you have a winner.. Walmart... i believe they do take orders online and you can go pickup next time u go grocery shopping.. Fuji Frontier prints on Crystal Archive papers should be good enough for the most of us..
Great way to ignore me. So what did you decide?
I just ordered 48 prints (each 4x6) from Walmart for $12.48. Not bad, huh! The only downside is that they will deliver in a week's time. Then again, I am in no particular hurry.
Just in case, anyone is interested, here is a round-up of the major players in online photo-printing services. For basic 4x6 printing, the prices range from 26 cents to 49 cents.
Shutterfly gets the highest marks, although they are pricey, obvioulsy. The reviewers considered factors like correcting problem photos, which are not required if you are a savvy user and know how to take pics properly and then use PhotoShop yourself. For most users, quality of the prints, price and delivery schedule are probably the most important factors.
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I just ordered 48 prints (each 4x6) from Walmart for $12.48. Not bad, huh! The only downside is that they will deliver in a week's time. Then again, I am in no particular hurry.
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Received our pics yesterday by mail. The quality is amazing. This is actually the first time, I got digital pics printed and I must say I am very pleasantly surprised. I had uploaded fairly high resolution pics 1600x1200 for 4x6 prints and the results are crystal clear and as good as the 35mm prints I used to see in early days. The colors are vibrant and there is not even a hint of pixels or anything to suggest these were digital pics and not traditional film pics.
Now that you have a 4.0MP camera you may want to upload 1800x1200 files to print at the optimal 300dpi of the Fuji Frontier printers..
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Received our pics yesterday by mail. The quality is amazing. This is actually the first time, I got digital pics printed and I must say I am very pleasantly surprised. I had uploaded fairly high resolution pics 1600x1200 for 4x6 prints and the results are crystal clear and as good as the 35mm prints I used to see in early days. The colors are vibrant and there is not even a hint of pixels or anything to suggest these were digital pics and not traditional film pics.
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Admit it. I was right!