Can Photo injet printers print text?

[Guest]

I'm looking for a printer, and I'm not so sure what I should get.
I've never really own a personal printer, since I've always had access to network lasers while I was in school. Now that I'm out of the school, I sometimes find myself wishing that I have a printer so I can quickly print an email out or something. Also ever since I got a digital camera, I can only see them on my computer, so I also wish maybe sometimes I can print a few high quality 5X7 pictures out to put it in a frame or put it in my cubicle wall at work.

So anyways, I probably won't use this printer a lot, just occasionally a text page or two when i'm not at work, but most of the time I would probably be using it for photo printing.

And I really don't care about the speed at which it prints, I'm willing to wait a little longer if that's what it takes to get good photos.

So I guess my questions is should I be looking for a inkjet printer or would a photo printer work better in this case? Can a photo printer actually print text that's good enough to read?

Thanks for any advice,
Amy

 

[Arrow]

Photo printers are actually often if not always inkjet printers. They should have no problem producing clear text.

Rob
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[hammerhead]

As arrow said, photo printer's are inkjets. There are more esoteric technologies, like dye-sublimation, but not for home use.

There was a time when the average inkjet's text quality was pretty poor. I used to use a laser for text, reserving the inkjet just for photo's. These days though, even a budget inkjet is capable of razor sharp text. I use a HP Photosmart 1215 which is superb.

For a more modest outlay, I recommend the Canon S600, HP Deskjet 940C or Epson Stylus Photo 810 (which is slow but capable of stunning quality for the price).

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the input.
I had to choose between the Canon 630 (can't find a 600 anywhere except used on ebay), and the epson stylus photo 820. According to tomshardware and smartcomputing review (probably others as well) the espon 820 is a injet design for photo printing, but can still do reasonable text priting. Also epson is running a $50 rebate for the 820, so I could get it for $135-50 =$85 vs. the canon 630 for $159.99. I decided to get the Epson. And then spend the saving on the scanner I need to buy.

Amy

 

[CALV]

I have an epson stylus 850, prints FAST both photos and text, photos are just like the real thing- you cannot tell (depending on the original image of course!!) A friend of mine recently bought an epson photo 860, this is SLOWER than mine, and the quality is the same.


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