For printer's you can't do better than the Epson R2x0 series. The higher-priced R3x0's are the same printers with more features (LCD's, DVD trays) but identical print quality. I've got the R320 myself and the print quality is superb on good paper (I use Epson Premium Luster). Ink is always expensive until you get into the pro models (Where the tanks are expensive, but hold 10-100x as much ink).
For scanners, I'd look at the Epson 4490 with a pair of Betterscanning.com 35mm ANR inserts, or a used Minolta Scan Dual III or IV and a copy of Vuescan (The minolta software doesn't work on 10.4, it will work on 10.3) -Adam Glen Tortorella wrote: > Thank you, Adam. I have a relatively recent iMac (running 10 point > something), but the printer I own was given to me, and it is an older > one (an inkjet) with mediocre poor print quality and expensive > cartridges ($30 at Wal-Mart). Thus, if I take your advice and go the > scanner route, I would have to buy a scanner and printer. What would > about $200 or so (for each) buy? I gather the new inkjets are a good > deal better than those made five or ten years ago? The older inkjets > I have seen make digital photos look like a study in Seuratian > pointilism and blue-is-green-black-is-purple color variance. > > Glen > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> Get a scanner, and you can do the same with your film stuff. All my >> film >> work (and I'm only shooting film now) is scanned and printed with an >> inkjet. It works pretty well for me. >> >> -Adam >> >> >> Glen Tortorella wrote: >>> Good commentary, Godfrey. Have you read Rebekah's remarks? I tend >>> to think that this is just another financial black hole. On the >>> surface, I think: great! I can just get a good deal on a DSLR, buy a >>> rreasonably-priced printer, hook it up to my IMac, and make as many >>> prints as I wish, but then there are those "hidden" costs...ink, >>> paper, software, and who knows what else... >>> >>> Perhaps this is why I have tried to remain ignorant of the DSLR >>> world. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Glen >>> >>> On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>> >>>> Glen Tortorella wrote: >>>>> While I have been resistant to digital for quite some time, I find >>>>> this article interesting. The idea of getting a good "budget" DSLR >>>>> has crossed my mind, but I know so little about working within the >>>>> DSLR format that I cannot get motivated to buy one. I tend to like >>>>> prints. Thus, I ask the supremely elementary question: how does >>>>> one >>>>> turn the zeros and ones stored in the DSLR's memory into prints? >>>>> Would a computer and/or scanner be necessary (I do not have a >>>>> scanner, but I do have an iMac), or can a camera shop or photo lab >>>>> supply the means to do this if one does not have a scanner? >>>> You're asking these questions as if you knew nothing at all, which I >>>> suspect isn't quite true. >>>> >>>> - No scanner is used when you're using a digital camera. Scanners >>>> are >>>> used to capture film and print images into digital images. A digital >>>> camera produces digital images. >>>> >>>> - You print a digital camera's photos the same way you print >>>> anything >>>> else: to a printer connected to either camera or computer, to an >>>> online print service having moved the image files from camera to >>>> computer, or by using a printer kiosk at a local store. >>>> >>>> - If you have an iMac, you connect the camera to the computer with >>>> its supplied cable. By default, iPhoto (supplied on every Apple >>>> system by default) will start up and download all the photographs so >>>> you can sort, show, and print them, to either a connected printer >>>> via >>>> a print service on the internet. >>>> >>>>> And, finally, how does the K100D compare to the Nikon...the D40 or >>>>> D50, I gather? >>>> A matter of opinion. They all work well at the level of questions >>>> you >>>> are posing. If you already have Pentax lenses, it makes sense to buy >>>> a Pentax DSLR: it will save you money. If you don't have Pentax >>>> lenses, pick whichever one feels best in your hands and enjoy it ... >>>> they all work better than the majority of owners can exploit. >>>> >>>> Godfrey >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
