Expression Photo XP-8800

I second this. Just got the XP-8800 and it prints beautifully. Very compact too. I recommend printing at least weekly and using OEM ink for best results.

As long as you print one photo a month, and only use oem ink. Photo printers for yourself will be fine. Don't use refills on a photo printer. Fan of the Epson Xp-8800 if you just want a personal photo printer with occasional regular use.

Epson Expression Photo XP‑8800 will be the best to print pictures.

… ET-3950 is ***not*** photo quality printer… It works alright but at 4 inks and simple app… no. It is an all purpose document printer that handles photos alright for home use. Canon printers are good printers, I don’t know they aren’t in the list at all, when Canon brand excels in photo printing… Epson Xpression: XP-7100, XP-8800, aren’t by far the only good photo printers. In fact, many printers specializing in photography are cartridge printers… and are not on this list… Like the canon pixma pro series or the Epson surecolors which are closer to hobbyst/professional grade… Ink tanks are inkjet printers, just a subset… General inkjet cartridge printers are anything but cost-effective… Wideformat includes ET-15000… Brother INKVestment Tank is a hybrid but imo it’s closer to being tank printer than being a cartridge inkjet… That’s WHY it is “high yield”. Cartridge inkjet printers are by nature *not* small footprint due to the use of cartridge (so much plastic with only a few drops of ink) and due most accepting only proprietary cartridge…

Picked up an epson 2988 at Costco for 200 and has been amazing

Go with the Epson 8550. A huge range of print media and if your selling art prints on etsy, it's safe to assume your customers aren't seeking archival quality. Dye inks will give you a wider more vibrant gamut and once you select your paper of choice and icc profile (red river papers for the profiles and sample packs of paper)you will get thousands of prints out of the tanks. And the cost for all six inks as refills is like $30 on amazon right now. The Epson claria inks are rated to last 75 years+, much longer than any of your customers plan to have the print anyways. And if pigment ink is a necessity then when you buy the 8550, fill it with pigment inks and not dye inks. But this must be done on empty clean tanks and there is no going back. The 8550 will give you much better profit margins. The only reason to go with something like p900 is that 17" wide format is a must have, but then in that case you might as well just step up to a 24" inch plotter. After that, you move into the big leagues and run eco solvents One last note if you want a lower entry point but wide format you can go with an Epson expression for like $200 or so that will print in super a3 or 13"x19". It uses claria inks as well but in cartridges. Lower initial cost but higher long term. Your choice.

I have an Epson expression and it's fucking horrible do not get one. The biggest waste of money of anything I have ever bought.

Hi, what you are looking for, is specifically a “photo printer” I can highly recommend the Epson ink tank printers, model numbers: Et-8800 Et-8850 They are ink tank printers, and both are identical in all specs, with the exception of the et-8850, being able to print larger sizes. They are both wide gamut printers. And the quality of the prints they produce will no doubt, be even more impressive than those your canon printer has printed. I own both models and I also still own an Epson artisan 1430. An excellent older photo printer, that uses the expensive, disposable cartridges. The difference in ink cost per print, between using a printer with ink tanks, compared to cartridge printers is night and day. Another advantage is that you don’t have to “babysit” your ink tank printer, because unlike cartridge printers, it can print 100’s of pages before needing an ink tank refilled. Conversely, the cartridge printers, seem to run out of ink in one of the cartridges, as soon as you walk out of the printing room, causing the printer to shut down. Which also means that you have to always have at least one spare cartridge in each color in stock, or the machine is useless. Soooo… Instead of walking back into the office, expecting to find your completed print job, you find (as an example), only 8 prints, from a set of 75 pages waiting to be printed, and then you have to replace the individual cartridge and re-pressurize the whole set of cartridges, before it can start to work again. When this happens, (an ink dump), (and it also can happen when you start up the printer, or do a head cleaning cycle), the printer forces ink at a higher pressure than normally used for printing, through the minuscule printer ink nozzles, and then the ink that is flowing through the head gets sucked into the “ink maintenance/waste box”. It is an overflow tank used to collect all of the ink wasted during a cleaning cycle, etc, and when you print borderless photos. Eventually the tank fills up, and needs to be discarded, and replaced with a new empty one. The ink cannot be recycled from the waste tank. All of the different ink colors, are mixed together in the tank, and is no longer useable, unless you want very muddy looking monochrome prints! The printer will also shut down, if that waste tank is full. So you need to have a spare on hand. And therefore a larger ink waste tank is an advantage, because it extends the time between printing and having to replace it. The printers I suggested above, do have large capacity waste/maintenance tanks. Best of luck with your decision. If it helps with your decision, I have printed over 32,000 full color 8.5”x 11” or larger prints, between my three printers, and have never had any issues with them, whatsoever. As a matter of fact, I had to sell my multi level house, and move into a ground level house. And for more than 12 months, due to illness, all three printers, sat in a moving pod, outside on my driveway, through a complete year of nasty weather conditions. When I was able to finally set them up, I automatically did one head cleaning cycle on each printer and then made a head check print. Wow, was I surprised to find that the heads were completely clean, no clogs, whatsoever. I probably should have checked them first, before the first ink purge. Be aware, When comparing the price of a new tank printer to a new cartridge version, be aware that the cartridge machines, which generally cost less, usually only come with so called “starter” cartridges. They don’t have the same ink quantity as the real complete replacement cartridges have. A true hidden evil. While the Epson ink tank printers that I recommended, come with what the manufacturer calls, “two years” of ink. My set of included inks, only lasted me for about two months, because I was doing heavy nonstop printing. For the math, I would not be surprised at all, if you took the huge amount of ink, that is included with the tank printers, and used that ink to fill the little cartridges with the correct amount of ink, using all of that ink, into the small cartridges, the value of just the ink filled cartridges, alone, would far exceed the cost of the tank printer, with the ink!! So, not only are you saving money by not having to buy replacement ink, for a while, you are displaying your art in the grandest form. The humble print. ymmv, imho, 📸 Regards, Randy 📸

Epson, et-8800 or et-8850 for beautiful photo printing, and everyday usage as well. I recommend that regardless of brand or any model of any given manufacturer’s products, you only get an ink tank printer, instead of individual ink cartridges. The ink tank will save you a whole lot of money, over the long run. ymmv, imho, 📸 Regards, Randy 📸