{"id":402,"date":"2007-05-20T17:28:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2007-06-17T21:22:46","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T02:22:46","slug":"buying-an-inkjet-for-photo-prints-get-one-with-at-least-six-ink-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Buying an inkjet for photo prints?  Get one with at least six ink colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s inkjet printers can create photographic prints that rival or beat the image quality of a photo lab. \u00a0 Some high-end inkjets produce the best image quality you are likely to find anywhere, and under proper storage conditions the prints will last as long as conventional photographs. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/sixcolors1.jpg\" alt=\"sixcolors1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Six individual ink cartridges in a Canon S9000 printer. \u00a0 Yellow cartridge, far right, \u00a0 is missing its label.<\/p>\n<p>If \u00a0are going to print at home, be sure to get a printer with at least six colors of ink. \u00a0 A four-color printer, using yellow, magenta, cyan, and black ink, can produce good-looking photographs, but they will lack the color range and realism of a six or eight-color printer. \u00a0 A six color printer adds photo cyan and photo magenta inks to bring the prints up to the next level of photographic reality, and it is a difference that anyone can see. \u00a0 Eight-color printers add either red and green, or a light black ink and clear ink to improve quality even further, but these are usually found in expensive wide format (13&#215;19 inch) printers. \u00a0 For most home users a six-color printer will exceed their expectations. \u00a0 The illustration above shows a printer with six individual cartridges. \u00a0 Please note that some printers have six ink colors, but only two cartridges- one for black and one for the colors.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/rx580.jpg\" alt=\"rx580.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Epson Stylus Photo RX580<\/p>\n<p>All-in-one machines (scanner, printer, copier) have become increasingly popular for the convenience and value they offer. \u00a0 In the past \u00a0I have shied away from recommending them because the print quality usually lagged noticeably behind a dedicated photo inkjet printer, but this may have changed. \u00a0  \u00a0I will soon have a review of Epson&#8217;s Stylus Photo RX580, \u00a0 one of the only all-in-ones I have seen that uses six-color inks. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I have seen the RX580 on sale for as little as $99 and if the quality is as good as it is reputed to be, it&#8217;s hard to imagine a better \u00a0value in an all-in-one. \u00a0<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  addthis_url    = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.soundadviceblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D402';\n  addthis_title  = 'Buying+an+inkjet+for+photo+prints%3F++Get+one+with+at+least+six+ink+colors';\n  addthis_pub    = '';\n<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/addthis_widget.php?v=12\" ><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s inkjet printers can create photographic prints that rival or beat the image quality of a photo lab. \u00a0 Some high-end inkjets produce the best image quality you are likely to find anywhere, and under proper storage conditions the prints will last as long as conventional photographs. \u00a0 \u00a0 Six individual ink cartridges in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,13,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}