Anyone have a wide format printer?

NettieB

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Care to share what you think of it? Love it? Definitely worth it? or not?

It seems like they have come down in price considerably, as have color laser printers. I haven't been able to verify archival quality on color laser ink, though. Maybe I'm justifying, rationalizing and excusing my drooling over wide format printers, but with cost of paper, ink, scrapbook albums, plus the printer, around 7 albums you break even with Shutterfly?

Let's use an example: an annual review album, with a two page spread for each month, a title page and last page = 26 pages. Doing the math on printing albums/photobooks through Shutterfly and the like, I come up with:

12x12 photo book, 20 pages, photo cover: $55 +$12 S/H = $67
Each additional page $1.50, so album cost is $76
7 albums = $532

(Didn't do the math for 8x8 as you wouldn't need a wide format printer)

Yes, Shutterfly sometimes has no S/H specials, and % off books, which is not included in the math either.

What do y'all think? Your comments are appreciated!
 
I have a Canon i9100 that prints 13x19 and I love it. I never print anything except Christmas cards out of house. I still paper scrap so all my photos are done at home which rocks cause I can print them as I want to use them and can vary sizeds 4x6, 6x6, 5x5, 5x7, 8x10, whatever!

Plus when I do hybrid projects I can print out 12x12 papers!
 
That is what I was thinking, not only could I print out my own LO's in 12x12, but I could print digi papers for Hybrid stuff 12x12. I live in Canada, and it always seems to cost so much to ship stuff up here from companies in the US, I have my fingers crossed for a wide format, but then I also want a Laptop, and I can't have every thing, ;(
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