Photo printers?

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:29:42 EST
"Tom Buskey" said:

>I ended up getting a laser printer.  No waiting.  99% of my printing 
>doesn't involve color.

I have an HP Laser for b&w printing.  I'm specifically looking for 
something to do color/photo-quality printing.

The problem I'm trying to solve is this:
 
We take a *lot* of pictures with the digital camera that we want to print
out and place in photo-albums or give to relatives.

We have been going to Wal*Mart to use that Kodak kiosk thingy.
It costs $.47 per sheet.  The problem is, it's an NT based system
running Macromedia sw and inevitably breaks on every other sheet
you print, requiring a reboot, which takes over 10 minutes. 
We've many times wasted 1-2 hours for pictures to print from this thing.

Since it's my wife who does most of the printing, this is a *major*
inconvenience for her since she also has my daughter with her.

I want to have a decent photo-quality printer at home, not to save 
money necessarilly, but to save time and my wife's sanity (whose pain 
thresh-hold and patience level are *far* lower than mine :) 

If the Epson for $500 is of far superior quality than the HP for 
$200, I'll spend the extra $300.  The interesting thing is that 
someone reminded me that Epson doesn't technically *make* printers, 
they re-package a Canon engine.  Ironically, Cannon is not considered 
to play nicely with open source, yet the Epson is rated as working 
perfectly.  At this point though, I am inclined to get the HP, since 
it seems to be better for a lot less $$.

Thanks,
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