Photo Quality Printers

If you've tried printing your photos taken with a digital camera on an inkjet printer you end up dissapointed of the quality that comes out. Photo printers are in lack of better words to describe them enhanced inkjet printers. They print photos in photo quality characteristice and are extremely affordable when comparing to other printers as they're inkjet printers afterall. Costs of cartridges is another issue.

There is a catch why photo printers are as affordable as they're. The companies are making money on the inkjet tanks and the photo paper you need for your photos. When buying a photo printer you need to take into consideration the resolution of images it can print and how many ink tanks it uses.

Photo resolution is measured in dots per inch also referred to as DPI. The more dots per inch the better detail the photo printer can print out. When buying a photo printer I recommend you buy a photo printer of minimum 2400 x 1200 DPI although you can find photo printers with a better resolution as well.

Photo printers are obviously optimized for printing photos and usually use six colors for printing. Having individual ink tanks for each color is a wise move as you can run out of black but have enough of the other five colors. If you have individual ink tanks you can only refill the black tank instead of if you have a tank for all the colors where you would need to replace the entire tank and the other colors would go to waste.

One more thing you need to keep in mind when printing photos is the paper you use. There is a great selection of photo papers available on the market. A photo printer will usually work best with paper from the same manufacturer as your printer.