#Printers for mac best buy portable#
The best portable printers (opens in new tab) The best photo printers (including all those in our list) use individually replaceable inks, so you only need to replace cartridges that have actually run dry (see our guide to best printer inks (opens in new tab) to find the best prices)Ĭombined prices for manufacturers’ own-brand inks and high-quality papers generally average out to around £1.40 per Letter-size print, and up to £4.80 for a larger format 13-inch wide print.Įpson has introduced its 'EcoTank' system where you get a much larger ink supply when you buy the printer, but we're not convinced this makes better economic sense since you have to pay much more up front. Ink cartridges are renowned as being expensive, but the costs actually compare favorably with prints created by an online lab. The best photo printer doesn't necessarily use one or the other – it's up to you how you want to balance immediate print quality against long-term stability. They're both 'inks', but they have different pros and cons and printer makers will choose one or the other (or combine them) according to what the printer's designed for. Very broadly, pigment inks last longer without fading, but dye inks tend to give richer, denser colours and sink deeper into the paper surface. Moving up to larger A3+ printing, there’s a choice of printers based exclusively on dye or pigment inks. Read more: Epson Expression Photo XP-970 review (opens in new tab) Pigment vs dye inks for photo printersįor A4 size printing, most recent models follow Canon’s lead of combining a pigment-based black ink for crisp document printing, with four or more dye-based inks for premium photo output on glossy paper. The Epson is smaller, lighter and less expensive to buy, but has dearer ink costs. Even so, for glossy colour and black & white photo output, the XP-970 loses out to the more specialist Canon PIXMA Pro-100S A3+ printer. Going large to A3/wide format printing makes your photos look much more imposing, and print quality itself is very good. It works very well as a standalone printer and photocopier, with intuitive touchscreen controls. There’s a lot to love about this new Epson printer, although it’s incredibly similar to the previous XP-960 model. Read more: Canon PIXMA PRO-200 review (opens in new tab) Even so, the PRO-300 has the edge for printing on matte and fine art media, with its more robust pigment-based inks and additional matte black ink cartridge. Colour output on glossy paper is simply spectacular, easing ahead of Epson’s larger-format 6-ink photo printers, and the Canon also delivers very convincing output for both colour and mono photo prints on matte and fine art media. The built-in colour screen makes for more intuitive operation and again, as with the pigment-based PRO-300, you can create panoramic prints of up to 990cm in length. An upside of this is that borderless printing is now available for matte and fine art media, instead of just for glossy paper (as with the imagePROGRAF PRO-300 and PRO-1000 models). The uprated paper transport mechanism features auto skew correction and automatically retracting side paper guides, enabling greater precision. There’s also better gamut matching between what you see on-screen and what you get in print. The replacement to Canon’s popular PRO-100 and 100S dye-based A3+/13x19-inch printers, the revamped PRO-200 has a revised range of Chroma Life 100+ inks that deliver richer deep colours and blacks.
Read more: Canon PIXMA TS6350 review (opens in new tab) This printer is also available in white (rather than the standard black) as the Canon Pixma TS6351. As usual with document/photo printers, there’s a built-in scanner, ideal for creating photocopies, but this model lacks a memory card slot for direct photo printing, although it does have built-in Bluetooth. The motorized output tray adds a touch of automation and the on-board controls are simple and intuitive, based around an OLED screen.
#Printers for mac best buy skin#
The four dye-based inks for photo printing naturally have a smaller gamut (or colour space) than in Epson’s competing photo printers that use six dye-based inks but, even so, the Canon’s colour rendition looks very lifelike and natural for everything from portrait skin tones to vibrant landscapes. Better still, you can keep plain paper for document printing in the internal cassette, and load sheets of variously sized photo paper into the upright rear feeder, as and when you want to create photo prints.
Typical of Canon 5-ink printers over the years, this one runs on a pigment-based black cartridge for rich, solid text in document printing, along with dye-based cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks for photo output.
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