Hi to all.
I am looking for a bit of help here. I want to buy a printer that will produce photo quality prints. It will also be required to print normal pages of material. Sharpness of image is critical, as I have been able to generate a small. but growing market for my wildlife work. I am not ready to sink thousands of dollars into this yet, but would like to be able to produce a photo quality product.
Can anyone advise, from personal experience, which printer I should be thinking about. I would like to stay under $500.00 if possible.
Thank you all
Y. D.

Check out this link it reviews photo equipment.
Look at the Canon i960 printer. I have the i860 and satisfied with the print quality.
http://www.steves-digicams.com/printers.html

I've used many brands, and you will be happy with most!

However, ink for Canon inkjects is often substantially cheaper per page than many others. Make sure that you get one of Canon's models that have separate ink tanks for each colour so that you only replace the colour you are out of. The savings add up! Get a Canon with 4 ink tanks (3 colours plus a bigger one for the black ine), and I'm sure you will be happy.

If you want to set a printer up on a home network, then many HP printers have this networking capability built in.

I cannot find the website I had thought I bookmarked regarding costs per page printed, but I do recall that the Canon inkjets were much less than everybody else.

I have a (cheap!) Canon injet set up on a network serving 40 people, and it has performed WAY beyond any reasonable expectations.

John

If you're going to print large numbers of 8 x 10 photos, I would suggest getting an Epson that has bulk ink supplies. I have seen these at several computer shows, and they use 6 oz. bottles of ink. The bottles sit at the side of the printer and are connected by small hoses to the print head. The cost of the printer is not much higher than a standard printer, but the savings will make up the difference when using bulk ink. Do a Google search for continous ink printers.

Nashcat