It's been a while.....
 

.......since we had a recommend me thread, so here it goes.

I need a decent photo printer for a Christmas present, I don't mind if it's an A4 or one of the compact ones. I can spend up to about £150 on it and I'm not really bothered whether it's any good as a normal printer as the person I'm buying for already has a printer.

So, what would you peeps buy?

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Top of me head I would say something by Epson or Canon and possibly HP sorry cant be more specific, I will have a look at some photo mags for you.

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The gadget show recommended this one
HP Photosmart A516 - £29.95


From amazon. Will print up to 10x15 prints.

So you have £120 to spend on beer or the Mrs :)

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According to 'What digital camera' mag the Epson picture mate comes in at approx £100 and is a compact printer or if you fancy an A4 size they recommend the Canon ip 5300 at about £95 both of these got 91% in recent tests, also I have heard the Epson stylus photo R340 is pretty decent and thats about £120 i think, check this out though www.pricerunner.co.uk or www.dpreview.com

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Cheers guy's, I gotta few ideas now so I'm gonna head down to pc world for a gander.

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My advice - dont.

You will get cheaper/better by heading down to your local photo shop with a disk/memory card.

There was a study that showed that photo printers were about twice the cost of going to a real photo place.

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I know that but it's just for printing pictures quickly.

My mates just had a boy and he doesn't get a lot of time to trundle off to the photo printers so he can do some on this, then every now and then he can take a disc with the rest down to the photo printers.