It’s not often that I’ll make an endorsement, but:
The Canon i960 photo printer (a worthy replacement of the already-pretty-awesome Canon i950) sells for less than $199 and kicks butt!! Whisper quiet operation! Entire 8.5″ x 11″ photo sheets printed in just over 1 minute!! Prints are vibrant and crisp, using just ho-hum Office Depot photo paper!!! Sure, it doesn’t offer archival quality pigment inks, but mostly super-photo-nerds/snobs care about that. Wow, I’m really impressed and can say goodbye to the Canon i950 without hesitation. Yahoo!! (This is not a Yahoo! (TM) endorsement.)
Note: I am not a professional actor paid to say these things.
Costwise, you may still be better off with Costco if you’re not serious about custom prints and instant gratification. Think about it: Assuming a $200 initial cost (not even counting future paper and ink purchases), you could get over 1050 4″ x 6″ prints from Costco. Oh shoot!! 0_o
Can I use it? I’ve just bought a film scanner, and am looking forward to actually having shots worth printing. 🙂
Send me some files and I will show you some prints. First couple of prints are on me! =]
Lol, thanks, I’ll keep that in mind next time I wake up with insperation to print pictures really fast…
But there is only “potential” for improvements, what if I need a picture right now. I won’t be able to get it ahhh and lots of us don’t save all our favorites, we just look at yours. Thanks for the heads up, but I’ll wait to get pictures when I have ethernet again, sigh, DSL just isn’t good enough