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Chat => Photography => Topic started by: Privateer on December 20, 2007, 13:31:52 PM
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100 Sheets 5x7 Mirror Glossy Photo Paper 260gsm-Very HQ
0n my cheap canon I 250, cartridges of ebay are 99p, I bought 100 sheets of 5x7 Pro Photo paper of ebay for £8.94 inc delivery, I printed 10 pics so far and IMO, if they were done by a lab or me 10yrs ago I would not notice, they are good for cheep pics.
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Cheap inks are pretty good for most stuff, although the colours are questionable at times and longevity of the prints are not as good as they have a tendancy to fade much sooner than the canon/hp/epson ones.
Anything you want to put in an album I would just use an online service like Photobox. Although for day to day stuff, the 3rd party ones cannot be beaten.
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I found that laminating them can help a bit as the inks oxidise in air, got the idea from a photographic magazine article. It also stops grubby little hands smearing the ink all over the place.
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Cheap inks are pretty good for most stuff, although the colours are questionable at times and longevity of the prints are not as good as they have a tendancy to fade much sooner than the canon/hp/epson ones.
Anything you want to put in an album I would just use an online service like Photobox. Although for day to day stuff, the 3rd party ones cannot be beaten.
Thats a trading fact, non genuine cartridges are weak in colour, I expected that, but these prints are superb, the only question is longevity, Ill suggest to the kids the get them laminated, like Serious said, lol we read the same mag.
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I found that laminating them can help a bit as the inks oxidise in air, got the idea from a photographic magazine article. It also stops grubby little hands smearing the ink all over the place.
Top tip!
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100 Sheets 5x7 Mirror Glossy Photo Paper 260gsm-Very HQ
0n my cheap canon I 250, cartridges of ebay are 99p, I bought 100 sheets of 5x7 Pro Photo paper of ebay for £8.94 inc delivery, I printed 10 pics so far and IMO, if they were done by a lab or me 10yrs ago I would not notice, they are good for cheep pics.
£8.94 + cost of inks. = 100 prints.
8p a print... I can get 111 professionally printed prints for the same price as just your paper..
Not so cheep pics now.
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100 Sheets 5x7 Mirror Glossy Photo Paper 260gsm-Very HQ
0n my cheap canon I 250, cartridges of ebay are 99p, I bought 100 sheets of 5x7 Pro Photo paper of ebay for £8.94 inc delivery, I printed 10 pics so far and IMO, if they were done by a lab or me 10yrs ago I would not notice, they are good for cheep pics.
£8.94 + cost of inks. = 100 prints.
8p a print... I can get 111 professionally printed prints for the same price as just your paper..
Not so cheep pics now.
Nice for u but why mention it if u do not tell where or how ?
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100 Sheets 5x7 Mirror Glossy Photo Paper 260gsm-Very HQ
0n my cheap canon I 250, cartridges of ebay are 99p, I bought 100 sheets of 5x7 Pro Photo paper of ebay for £8.94 inc delivery, I printed 10 pics so far and IMO, if they were done by a lab or me 10yrs ago I would not notice, they are good for cheep pics.
£8.94 + cost of inks. = 100 prints.
8p a print... I can get 111 professionally printed prints for the same price as just your paper..
Not so cheep pics now.
Its ok if your pictures are as 1, but I literally have 1000s all over the place.
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There is also the problem of when you only want a few prints quickly. Much easier to just print them out and be done with it. If you do need a lot then the bucket sites/shops are the way to go.
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100 Sheets 5x7 Mirror Glossy Photo Paper 260gsm-Very HQ
0n my cheap canon I 250, cartridges of ebay are 99p, I bought 100 sheets of 5x7 Pro Photo paper of ebay for £8.94 inc delivery, I printed 10 pics so far and IMO, if they were done by a lab or me 10yrs ago I would not notice, they are good for cheep pics.
£8.94 + cost of inks. = 100 prints.
8p a print... I can get 111 professionally printed prints for the same price as just your paper..
Not so cheep pics now.
Nice for u but why mention it if u do not tell where or how ?
Most photo places will do it. As soon as you start hitting 100 prints, they lower the prices considerably.