Printing digital photos

[Ryoko]

I've been thinking of getting one of those dedicated photo printers, I've been looking at how much it works out, price per print and was wondering if anyone could tell me how much shops like Snappy snaps and Jessops charge per print for a standard photo size?

They cost a fortune in ink, you are much better to use photobox once you have thirty odd to print IME. What happens is each time they turn on you have to do a print cycle and that uses a lot of the ink in the cartridges before you've even started. And the paper is really expensive too.

circa 15p btw for in shop printing.

And about 10p I think online, although you can usually find an offer for less.

Yes and photobox gives you a mumsnet discount and you can prepay for prints which makes them really cheap and then just once a quarter get them sent out.

You need to look at the individual sites for the prices.

A dedicated printer is only worth it if you are printing lots of images ie a photographer. For family snaps there is just no need imo.

photos i print don't look that great, easier to use online printing co and they can store your prints too

And there isn't really an accurate way to price per print at home. There are normally many different ink cartridges so depends on how much of each colour you are using

We have a canon pixma something, it's truly excellent and much better than the shop prints we have had in the past. It cost about £90, and we have had it two years and bought 3 lots of cartridges.

If you do buy one, make sure you get one with 5 cartridge slots - ours has text black, black black, magenta, cyan and yellow. Means you can replace each one when it runs out, at a much lower cost and it's more efficient in the long run.

I was thinking of getting a Canon Selphy which is for digital photo's only, you buy a cartridge that contains both the ink and paper , a refill that does 36 prints is £10.

I don't like normal inkjet printers, when I had one it all ways got blocked/dried up because I didn't use it enough so I would never have one of them again, lasers only for standard PC stuff.