It prints quickly on anything from individual 6x4” photo paper to borderless A3+ posters. The Canon PIXMA Pro-100S is a sizable and solid desktop design that uses metal components in its print engine to guarantee accurate high-resolution results on large sheets of paper. Pigment ink is more durable, but you can expect to display dye-based photos for around thirty years before fading occurs. And instead of pigmented inks, Canon has specified brighter dye-based inks for prints that look good enough for gallery display. Read our full Epson EcoTank ET-18100 A3+ Photo Printer review Best budget A3+ photo printerĪ more affordable A3+ printer than the Epson Expression Photo HD XP-15000 is the Canon Pixma Pro-100S.Īimed at professional and enthusiast photographers, this high-quality photo printer achieves superior color fidelity by drawing on eight individual inkjet cartridges to create detailed prints on photo paper sizes up to A3+. Ok, that’s not the fastest photo printer on the market, but ideal times for producing proofs or limited photography runs that boast clarity and eye-catching colors. An A3 borderless print took two minutes twenty seconds.

Speeds were acceptable - a full-sized A4 image took a little over a minute to print. Helping to bring photos to life in vivid fashion are six color dyes, allowing for more depth and color in your images, with designers given the option to calibrate the printer to match the controlled colour metrics on their screen. The Epson EcoTank ET-18100 performed very well in our tests, effortlessly handling glossy photo paper and producing genuinely stunning colors. This means you get all the benefits of an inkjet printer, which excels at photo printing, but it’s cheaper to print than using ink cartridges. When you want to go big with your images, the Epson EcoTank ET-18100 is one of the best photo printers thanks to its vivid print quality and support for A3+ size paper types.įirst off, this is an ink tank printer - so you top up refillable reservoirs within the printer with ink bottles. Read our full Epson EcoTank ET-8550 review Best A3 photo printer Each print is vibrant and well-contained on coated paper, and if you're looking for colors that truly pop, this one's a winner and worth the steep price. More importantly, the Epson EcoTank ET-8550 performed well during our tests, faring particularly well when printing photos on glossy photo paper, thanks it large part to the 180 nozzles per colour and 360 black nozzles that deliver very finely detailed prints. The printer itself is also very well specified, with excellent connectivity, high print, and scan resolution, and a surprisingly prompt print speed. So, you will soon see that money back if you plan to print lots of large photos. Yes, it is rather expensive for an inkjet, but Epson’s bottled ink refills are not. Best of all, it’s an EcoTank, which means you’re not tied to cartridges, and you’ll find enough bottled ink in the box to print 2,300 photos. Secondly, it uses six individual inks to create superior quality prints. For starters, it’s a sleek, practical design with a large tilting touchscreen interface and the ability to print on any kind of paper up to A3+. This is one of the best-rated photo printers we've tested and reviews, tailored to any studio, office or home office where you're printing a lot of pictures. Read our full HP Envy Pro 6420 review Best photo printer for photographers But for casual, quality photo printing, it’s ideal. And we did find the quality of the ink declined when printing a lot of photos at once, especially for the cost. The main tray can only hold 40 sheets of photo paper (or 100 sheets of standard A4), while the output tray is capped at just ten photos (or 25 A4 sheets).

In our tests, glossy photographs came out vibrant and true.Īs a budget pick, there are limits here. Surprisingly at this price-point, print quality is excellent. So, overall, this printer has real utility in a home or small office. For photography purposes, the printer supports photo paper, as well as A4 paper and envelopes.

There’s Bluetooth, app support, and essential tools, like an ADF. It’s a true all-in-one, too, with printing, scanning, photocopying, and fax facilities. Picking up 4-stars in our review, we loved the amount of features packed into this all-in-one. For the best budget photo printer, the HP Envy Pro 6420 is an excellent choice.

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