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Is inkjet or laser better for printing photos?

Asked by 2davidc8 (10189points) February 23rd, 2021

Also, what printer do you have, and are you happy with it?
How long has it lasted?

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Lightlyseared's avatar

Generally an Inkjet will produce better photos than a laser printer.

A laser printer will produce better text and is cheaper per page (after the initial cost)

For the best results printing photos you you just want to use a dye sublimation printer however the refills are pretty expensive.

2davidc8's avatar

Is “dye sublimation “ a third kind of printer?

Lightlyseared's avatar

Yes. It’s has a roll of film with 3 colour dyes and uses heat to transfer the dye to special photo paper in 3 passes. Usually it will only print a single size (eg 6×4”) but the output is the closest you’ll get to a professionally printed photo.

Caravanfan's avatar

I gave up on printers printing photos. They always fade and the ink is super expensive. I just take them to Costco now.

dabbler's avatar

We used to print everything with a variety of inkjet printers over many years.
There weren’t good alternatives for digital images.

Now we send them to the local Walgreens now for good prints pretty fast and we never deal with fickle cartridges and bad printouts anymore.

We do have a laser printer for text printouts.

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