Hi,
Just wanted to garner opinion from anyone using a laser printer for photo printing. I'm about to replace my colour printer and did not initially consider a colour laser because of the photo printing. Inkjet printers around at the moment are quoting print resolution of anything from 1200dpi up to 4800dpi or more, whereas pretty much all lasers (at least in my price range!) are 600dpi.
But then I realised that during PP I usually crop to 7x5, 300dpi, so surely a laser printer could cope with that, or is that a bad assumption?
For most photos I send them off for processing by a lab - it's really for copies for friends and family or special creations that I print them myself, so we are not talking huge volumes here.
I have read that inkjets generally work better with the glossy paper around today (presumably because it's made to work with inkjets), but would really like to hear from anyone who is actually using a colour laser printer for photos - how happy are you with the quality?
Or should I just stick to a good inkjet photo printer?
Just wanted to garner opinion from anyone using a laser printer for photo printing. I'm about to replace my colour printer and did not initially consider a colour laser because of the photo printing. Inkjet printers around at the moment are quoting print resolution of anything from 1200dpi up to 4800dpi or more, whereas pretty much all lasers (at least in my price range!) are 600dpi.
But then I realised that during PP I usually crop to 7x5, 300dpi, so surely a laser printer could cope with that, or is that a bad assumption?
For most photos I send them off for processing by a lab - it's really for copies for friends and family or special creations that I print them myself, so we are not talking huge volumes here.
I have read that inkjets generally work better with the glossy paper around today (presumably because it's made to work with inkjets), but would really like to hear from anyone who is actually using a colour laser printer for photos - how happy are you with the quality?
Or should I just stick to a good inkjet photo printer?