What is the current favorite higher end printer?

[Anthony_S]

Probably a recurring question, but if I'm ready to buy a printer to create hard copy suitable for framing...archival...all that, what are the hot tickets?

Epson 2200, Canon 9900?

[robertwgross]

It helps if you state what maximum paper size you want the printer to handle.

---Bob Gross---

[MadTony]

I am currently in the market as well. In fact, I have been looking at the two that you mentioned. One of the other things you may want to look at is what kind of photography you do. For example, if you want to print panoramas, I think the epson will give you prints up to 13x44", while the canon will probably be more limited. This might be the deciding factor for me when I finally pony up the cash to buy one myself.

[Maureen Souza]

I have had my Epson 2200 for a year now and I would buy it again in a heartbeat. It does a fabulous job and is so easy to use & maintain.... I have printed over 2500 pictures on it without a problem.

[Avalonthas]

I had the 2200 before i had my Canon i9900, but the Epson loves to guzzle down the ink, so i switched to canon and i never gonna look back. The 9900 successor is supposed to be coming soon so u should wait and see what thats about. In a perfect world it will be a 10 catridge wide format printer :P

[etaf]

i'm looking at the dy-sub printers from HiTi 730PS - although the max size is 8"x6" having played with it at a show focus-on-imaging @NEC birmingham UK last monday - great quality.

[Illegally_Alive]

The one thing that I don't like about the i9900 is that we can't get a set of monochrome inks. Other than that I think the prints look great and are soooo fast!

[chris.bailey]

Ive had my Epson 2100 (2200) for about 2 years and have still not seen anything to better it by any margin. It does guzzle ink though.

[kong]

I had the 2200 before i had my Canon i9900, but the Epson loves to guzzle down the ink, so i switched to canon and i never gonna look back. The 9900 successor is supposed to be coming soon so u should wait and see what thats about. In a perfect world it will be a 10 catridge wide format printer :P

Dosn't archivel life play into any thoughts?? I'm just asking cause I have a r800 and am waiting for the r1800. I am a full canon man in camera equipt. but is the archivel life good enough to live with and sell on the I990?? I know that the i9900 successor is going to the monochrome inks and then it will be like the r1800.

Just a thought that I'm always wondering

[kb244]

Dosn't archivel life play into any thoughts?? I'm just asking cause I have a r800 and am waiting for the r1800. I am a full canon man in camera equipt. but is the archivel life good enough to live with and sell on the I990?? I know that the i9900 successor is going to the monochrome inks and then it will be like the r1800.

Just a thought that I'm always wondering

Well for archival canon does have the BCI-7 inks, which can be used in any of the printers that uses the BCI-6 , for the 100yr life, its called Chromalife, but currently only aval in japan. But yes I think you are right that the i9900 sucessor will probally come standard with these tanks.

[Avalonthas]

Dosn't archivel life play into any thoughts?? I'm just asking cause I have a r800 and am waiting for the r1800. I am a full canon man in camera equipt. but is the archivel life good enough to live with and sell on the I990?? I know that the i9900 successor is going to the monochrome inks and then it will be like the r1800.

Just a thought that I'm always wondering

archival life doesnt really matter to me for digital photography. If it fades, i just print another, easy. Ive had mine for like a year and so far all my prints are perfect, and one year is good enough for me, 20 years would be great, 100 years i do not care for. Even with personal prints where i use generic ink (since i print out dozens for myself) i have not witnessed any fading or other sideeffects.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Expect the i9900 replacement later this month,... April at the latest.

At which point you can get the new printer with it's new archival Bci7 ink system,.. or in a short period of time the i9900 will drop to about $350.00 where it is still in stock,... that window will be very breif though before they disappear alltogether.

[kb244]

archival life doesnt really matter to me for digital photography. If it fades, i just print another, easy. Ive had mine for like a year and so far all my prints are perfect, and one year is good enough for me, 20 years would be great, 100 years i do not care for. Even with personal prints where i use generic ink (since i print out dozens for myself) i have not witnessed any fading or other sideeffects.

Hehe wait til you see how much it cost to buy a pack of 13x19 photo paper. I dunno if I'd just wana re-print it after that much ink cost and paper was put into it ( Though its not nearly as bad as getting a lab to print it for you ). But yea I do feel the 9900 is much more vibrant of a print, and I've told people in the past you can always get that spray coat to lock in the ink and such.

[scottbergerphoto]

Just another vote for the Epson 2200, or as we call it at home, the "Humvee", due to its weight and size.
Scott

[RJSorensen]

We use the i9900 . . . I am looking forward to see the new replacement however. CDS where does one get into the rumor loop?

[R.T.]

Is the photo quality of the i9900 much better then the ip8500? I'd like to get a canon printer but don't think I need the large format of the i9900. But I do want the best quality I can get, will the ip8500 give me that? Thanks!


R.T.

[msmack]

Epson is coming out with the R1800. Will be in the stores late March early April.
Google it. Archival inks, fast printing, wide format. Looks like a winner to me.

Merrill

[kb244]

Epson is coming out with the R1800. Will be in the stores late March early April.
Google it. Archival inks, fast printing, wide format. Looks like a winner to me.

Merrill

the R1800 gona use the same ink as the R800, so the quality off the R800 will give you an indication, the R1800 just a wide format variation of it, the 1800/800 using a new version of the UltraChrome ink, formulated for glossy paper to compete against Canon's more vibrant printout frmo the 8500/9900 ( By the way 8500 = 9900, just 9900 is wide format ). But from what I've seen the R800 still not as vibrant as the iP8500/i9900 , but better than the 2200.

[R.T.]

Thanks KB244, appreciate the info!


R.T.

[CyberDyneSystems]

We use the i9900 . . . I am looking forward to see the new replacement however. CDS where does one get into the rumor loop?

No rumor,. just an educated assesment ;)

The i9900 replaced th i9100 in February/March 2004

The new Inks have been on the Market in Japan since November 2004... or earlier.

So we start to see it looming on the horizon.

In the Spring and summer months people like to be outside taking photos,. in late winter? Were stuck inside and should be printing!

[kb244]

No rumor,. just an educated assesment ;)

The i9900 replaced th i9100 in February/March 2004

The new Inks have been on the Market in Japan since November 2004... or earlier.

So we start to see it looming on the horizon.

In the Spring and summer months people like to be outside taking photos,. in late winter? Were stuck inside and should be printing!

Course dont forget, the i9100 only been out for just a short few months replacing the 9000, before the 9900 came out ( 9100 seemed to be rather short lived )

[gary_hendricks]

Probably a recurring question, but if I'm ready to buy a printer to create hard copy suitable for framing...archival...all that, what are the hot tickets?

Epson 2200, Canon 9900?

I'm using a Canon iP4000 PIXMA printer. It's been wondeful so far :)