Printers Guide Article

Finding the Best Photo Printer

Your photos are cherished memories that you can keep for a lifetime. You should be able to use the best photo printer to help make them better in quality. But the best photo printer will vary based on what you are looking for. Photo printers have different levels of resolution and various levels of colors for printing. Some will even work with other operating systems and many will have other features that can be especially useful. Canon, Olympus and Epson have a wide range of photo printers for sale, and by knowing the differences you can find the best photo printer for your personal printing needs.

Let's look first at the Canon CD-200 photo printer. This photo printer has continuous tone printing technology with a 288x144 dpi (dots per inch) level of dye-sublimation printing. Also, it features 24-bit color printing, which makes it the best photo printer for photographic output. Also, this Canon photo printer can accept sticker sheets and A6 (4x6 inch) glossy paper, which are especially popular for printing.

If you have an older operating system the Canon CD-200 may be the best photo printer for your needs. This photo printer works with Windows 3.1, 95 and 98 systems, and it also works on Macintosh computers. You can also use a CompactFlash disk with this printer to help read images that come directly from video cameras or other media players.

Olympus is known for its line of handheld cameras, and the companies makes some of the best photo printers for the many features the cameras offer. The P-11 Digital photo printer uses dye-sublimation printing with top quality continuous color tone printing. Nearly seventeen million colors are read on this photo printer. It also prints quickly, as it takes a little over thirty seconds to print a photo on 4x6 inch paper.

Epson also makes photo printers. The Epson Stylus Photo 2200 is one of the best photo printers made by the company. This printer features a continuous tone that is especially accurate, and it has a resolution level of 2880x14400 dpi with four picoliter ink droplets. This is one of the best photo printer resolution models on the market. It also features PRINT Image Matching technology and can exchange inks to print black and white images. An automatic cutter for roll paper is also included.

These are some of the best photo printers on the market, but be sure to get one for your individual needs. The best photo printer for you should be one that is able to handle the needs that you have in mind and can print all of the photos that you have at a level of quality that you are especially comfortable with.

You can learn about photo printers and what models are available for you to choose from online at websites for Canon (canon.com), Olympus (olympusamerica.com) and Epson (Epson.com).