Great Photo Printers
By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • May 16th, 2007 • Category: Loose Ends, News for Creatives (archives)PCPhoto Mag helps narrowing down the guidelines to buying Photo Printers: “Choosing the best photo printer for your needs may mean choosing more than one printer. We’ve come a long way from the one-size-fits-all office inkjets—with specialty photo printers ranging from fast and portable mini-printers for quick proofs and 4×6s to pro-quality, large-format printers for making frame-worthy display prints. Things to think about:
It’s All About The Picoliters. With inkjet printers, the size of the ink droplets is more important than how many dots per inch. For accurate rendering of subject textures like wood, fabric and skin, as well as smooth transitions from light to shadow, a size of five picoliters or smaller is what you need.
The Number Of Colors
Ink Longevity
Print Head Speed
Image Resolution Versus Print Resolution
There’s a catch, though. The prints will only be as good as the images—the exposure, the size of the image file and the megapixels of the camera that captured them. Large-format printers (13×19 inches and up) perform best with images captured on a 6-megapixel camera or higher. For standard-format (8½x11 inches) and compact or mini-printers (4×6 inches), a 4-megapixel camera or better will do the job.” Read more here
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