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Delighted with this printer, Jun 30, 2006
reviewer: Andrew Pickup
from Slough
Since our local printing company closed, we have had to post the team photographs to Sheffield for printing. there was considerable hassle with this, so we decided to print in-house.
Was originally going to go for a Mitsubishi, but System Insight said that the prints with this have a border. The only one which doesn't at 8" x 10" is the Kodak 9810. We bought it.
Although the installation of media looks complex, it is actually quite easy - second time no thought was required. The media can be quite hard to get, so we are keeping a stock now, well in advance.
The cost of each print (disregarding the capital cost of the printer) is rather over £1. This compared unfavourably with Peak Imaging, which we used before (29p per print on a big order). However, there are other advantages, well worth the extra:
1) The colour management is excellent. Very few have had to be reprinted, and that was because of carelessness on my part. With Peak, if the colour was wrong because the balance was wrong (on the file prepared by me) we had to live with it - no time to send away again. I do have to make the picture look unnaturally light on my monitor, but I could solve that with a profile. Whatever, the results are so good it doesn't seem worth the hassle - I know what to do. If there is a doubtful print I do a single one to test the colour/lightness, make corrections, and print the rest.
2) It avoids adminstration hassles. When sending them away last time the DVD hadn't written correctly, so I had to put them onto a CD as JPEGs (surely not, for pro printing!). When the prints arrived, they then had to be looked at and sorted before they could be sent out.
3) The software/connections are reliable. In fact it is a very boring printer. You just click print, and it prints!
I do have a couple of minor criticisms:
1) The 10" x 8" prints are actually 10.05" x 8". Not a big problem, you might think, but they will have to be trimmed slightly to fit into our school 10x8 mounts. When the mounts are re-ordered, I will have them made slightly wider. It might be possible to change this setting on the printer and will ring Kodak technical support next week.
2) It is not a quick lab printer. However, the software and printer are so good that other things can be done while jobs are printing. They also go straight through to the printer, so you are not waiting looking at an hourglass for it to start.
This has been one of the best purchases our school has ever made. An occasionally difficult parent even wrote the word "lovely" next to one of the photographs ordered. It has paid for itself already.
For individual prints (for example, a parent who might want a good one of her son in a play, or whatever) it is brilliant. It was never worth the hassle to send one file up to Peak Imaging. Now, I just print one, put it in a folder, and give it to them.
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Since our local printing company closed, we have had to post the team photographs to Sheffield for printing. there was considerable hassle with this, so we decided to print in-house.