It's pleasantly surprising, for once. The black cartridges are about $7 at Sam's Club, and the color (5-ink) are $15 INCLUDING 180 sheets of 4x6 paper. The TriColor for that little portable of hers (HP PhotoSmart 335) is around $27 for small, $34 for "high-yield" so I'm relatively happy.
If and when we need something more, um, "professional" I will look into the multi-cartridge printers with individual inks. Advice much appreciated! Tony >On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 23:27 -0600, Christine Aguila wrote: > Well, sounds like you guys are happy with your purchase & that's the > important thing. Happy printing. Cheers, Christine > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony" <to...@compusource.net> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:28 PM > Subject: Re: Printer Question > > > > On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:45 -0600, Christine Aguila wrote: > >> Hi Tony: I'd never heard of these printers, so I googled them & > >> discovered > >> that they are all-in-one printers--& I didn't check to see what they are > >> selling for--but I'd like to say this: If you are the Tony that just > >> joined > >> the list & bought a K20D (which is a pretty serious camera) & are now > >> taking > >> a night-school photography class, it sounds like you're pretty serious > >> about > >> learning photography. If so, then I'd suggest you get a photo-dedicated > >> printer as opposed to an all-in-one. Of course, I don't know your budget > >> & > >> all your needs etc, so maybe this advice is off base, but why don't you > >> check out HP, Epson, Canon web sites & see if there is a photo dedicated > >> printer within your budget. Also, I shot for a year & a half before I > >> had a > >> photo dedicated printer--I used online printers to do prints--mostly > >> proof > >> size, but it was something. Also, will you have access to inkjet > >> printers > >> through your photo class? If so, you might want to use them before you > >> buy > >> to kind of see what you end up liking with respect to photo dedicated > >> printers. As to the ink & paper, well you had just better make peace > >> with > >> the cost of that :-). Just my 2 cents. Cheers, Christine > >> > >> > > > > Thanks for that, and yeah, that would be me - got the K20D at Adorama > > during that 3-day $699 kit sale. > > > > Got the Kodak printer today (before I read your email) and have actually > > been quite pleasantly surprised with it. It was $190 @ Best buy, plus my > > wife had some sort of 10% off coupon, bringing it down to about $171 > > plus tax. The cartridges are $10 for black, $15 for color (5-pigment) or > > $22 for the pair, which is quite cheap compared to that P-O-S Lexmark > > she's had for a while, while, which I STRONGLY argued against her > > buying :) > > > > I ended up getting the Kodak ESP 7, which has built-in Ethernet and > > WiFi, which was a BREEZE to set up - it was printing within 20 minutes, > > from breaking the tape, to getting output. I was also surprised to find > > out that it also has duplex (double-sided) printing, and has 2 trays: 1 > > for 4x6 or 5x7 print paper, and then the standard A4/8.5x11-sized > > adjustable tray. I dropped a photo of hers on the scanner bed, and > > pressed "copy" and it made a pretty darned good copy for her, so she was > > also happy. The WiFi is kick-butt - we usually surf/play in the living > > room on the laptops, and the printers are in the master bedroom near the > > desk, so this will be a MOST welcome feature! > > > > Quality seems pretty good, expecially for the price - maybe later when I > > get REALLY serious about getting printed output, I'll get something up > > to the task, but for the next year or 2, this will probably suffice. > > > > I'm hoping to be able to afford the Pentax K2000 in White for her when > > it's released, as I know she saw it and liked it, and then I can drag > > her kicking-and-screaming into the dSLR world with me :) Right now, she > > has some sort of HP P&S that came combined with one of those teeny-weeny > > HP photo printers (the 4x6 portable) and I have been teaching her to use > > my K20D, well, whatever I've learned so far... > > > > Tony > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
