*Finally* looking to buy a printer. nEEd your help.

[jakescakes]

Ok, I still have not purchased a printer. This will be my first one, and I know nothing about them so I need some help.

I'm looking for a printer that is relatively small, can print "nice photos", and I would like a scanner. An all-in-one seems to be what im looking for. I do not need to fax anything, however. Dont need anything fancy, I wanna spend $100, maybe a little more if need be.

I also learned about rasterbater. So I wanna use that, and print huge pictures on my wall.

I was looking at either hp/canon. Since they produce nice digital photos. But there's just so many printers out there, I dont know what to look for. I only buy from newegg, since I love their prices/shipping.

-jacob

 

[mykyi]

I fix printers and copiers for a living and it seems that epson has the best quality for photo's.
If your going to be printing a lot go with hp or canon, a lot of the hp's are actually built by canon.

 

[IanG]

Second the vote for epson. It'll be the cheapest in the long run once you factor the cost of inks. HPs have some crappy build quality imo, and while you can buy the inks practically everywhere, they cost more than Epson. Last time I checked, Epson also has a slight lead in picture quality.

Canon used to be the best (cheapest inks and great picture quality) but they've jacked up their prices for ink now and are turning into a HP.

Whatever the hell you do, don't buy a lexmark (or a Dell which is a rebranded Lexmark.) Astronomical ink prices and terrible build quality.