Club Printer

You can certainly pick up a small printer, but it will only make small 4×6 prints. A large printer can produce prints as big as 13×19, which are big enough unless you have a Sistine ceiling to plaster. As you move up in size, the cost of trouble-free, small dye-sub consumables becomes unreasonable, so you find only inkjet options with either dye or pigment based ink systems with their inherent tendency to clog and spit.

With its $399.99 MP950, Canon has rethought the printer game, producing a rather large box that includes not just a printer but a copier and a scanner, too. Also included is a card reader and PictBridge port. And a generous 3.6-inch color LCD panel lets you run the whole thing without turning on your computer. Built-in intelligence automatically corrects red eye, sharpness and brightness values (or you can fine tune them yourself). Canon has built a photo lab into this box. (more…)