waymond Loc: Pflugerville, Texas

Same here. Been using Brother for years. Excellent tech support when necessary

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Epson has a new line of printers that use ink tanks. One just buys the refill bottles. They claim full tanks last 1 - 2 years. That has to be a fungible number.

ganmar37 Loc: Southern California

taj334,
I have been using an outfit in New York called PEPhoto (look them up online). For the past 10 years, or so, I've been getting 5 x7 and larger prints made. When I started with them the price was about 7 cents per print for 5x7's. After going on a cruise, I'd edit my photos and have 400 prints made, which would fill two albums. You can just imagine what I was paying! The postage was about the same as the prints (not quite)!
The last time I had prints made the cost of a print was about 17 cents each, if I remember correctly. For 400 5x7's it was about $75. I'm not sure what the cost per print is now. I've got so many albums that I now save them on external hard drives or thumb drives.
The way I'd send them the files was to upload them to their site, but that took hours! Now, I send them a DVD with the files. You can send a thumb drive, instead, and you'll always get your DVD's or thumb drive(s) back with your order. PE works very fast and their prints are very good. Their turnaround is about 2 weeks.
You can call them for special instructions. Believe me, it's a lot less expensive than the printer ink! Good luck!
-Marv

taj334 Loc: Long Island

A thank you to all who gave me feedback on my dilemma of the hp ink hog. I am considering each and every response. You have given me a lot to think about. Thank you, thank you.

laini

I'm new here. Can you tell me how to pm you to find out whether to get those canon inks. I have a canon printer with 9 cartridges so beading money on inks would be great. Thanks in advance. Elaine

daf40 Loc: Mesa, AZ

A previous post recommended "Ink4work" cartridges at $1.00 each, compared to Canon's cartridges which sell for around $20 each. I was all set to order some, but checked Amazon's ratings for this product. Out of 10-20 ratings, one gave the product 5 stars and almost all of the rest gave it only 1 star, with comments of "terrible", "horrible", "awful", etc. Users complained of only getting one picture out of a cartridge, or of the cartridge putting ink blots on pictures, and mostly of not working at all in their Canon printer. Guess I won't be ordering any of the "Ink4work" cartridges, despite their incredibly low cost.

laini

Thanks so much for the info. Years ago with my Epson I could use generic inks and they worked fine but all of a sudden a few years ago they were not good

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Unfortunately, those are office printers that can print so-so CMYK photos... Not excellent photo printers that can also print documents. The difference is at least two more inks.

Bunkershot Loc: Central Florida

Try Mpix.com.

ganmar37 Loc: Southern California

There IS another alternative. HP has a program where, for $4.99 / mo. you can print 100 pages or for $2.99 / mo. 50 pages. Pages not used would go into the "Rollover Pages" feature. The sweet thing about the program is that HP will monitor your printer and send you ink (included in the program you choose), before you need new cartridges. You never have to worry about running out of ink! They also send plastic return bags, prepaid, for your spent cartridges. If you have a problem with using your printer, HP will help you solve it. They do this by, online viewing the printer and then fix the problem, at no additional charge, I might add. I believe you'd have to have a model that qualifies to take advantage of this program. Go online to the "HP Instant Ink" site and there you'll find the information. Hope this helps.

bdk Loc: Sanibel Fl.

I have used walgreens with good success.
but I also have an Epson eco printer. Ive printed 100's of photos and you can hardly see where the ink has moved.
When its time to replace ink, its only $12.00 a bottle and they say it will print 1000's of photos.
so far so good. Quality is good, not as great as a photo printer but still good. I'm happy with it.
I now print everything , if not 8x10 sometimes 4 on a page some times 9 just to have the pix...

I also set it up to print business cards on gloss paper, they look great.

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

I use Adorampix occasionally and they do a good job at reasonable cost.