Picture Taker wrote:
You bought good camera equipment, spend time learning and taking pictures, buying software to process it and time processing the pictures, spent money to buy a good printer, so now is the time to save. I would save on the paper (try printing bon napkins they are cheep, and ink (that may or may not match the exact color four the Canon printer program) and then PROUDLY SHOW YOUR WORK.
La lot of us use off brand ink-- I don't and won't.
My thoughts exactly, we carry around thousands and may own 10s of thousands of dollars of gear yet will complain about a few more dollars per print. I use the Canon Pro 100 and only the Canon ink. Yes, it is more expensive and perhaps it is not any better. Perhaps it is much better. I do not want to find out that the ink doesn't look right when I am printing my latest best image. So. I will save, maybe a $1 per print until I have a problem and all of the "savings" is gone. Does anyone print on cheap paper because it is cheap or do we select the best paper for the image? If one chooses to use the best paper why not the best ink?