Ask any given expert in the consumer printer industry about what printer to buy when you’re on a budget and they’ll tell you that beauty is only MSRP-deep. That’s because in the long-run, you also need to account for ink and toner costs over the life of your printer. As a result, seasoned consumers calculate [...]

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So I was lying in bed the other night, thinking about the printer industry (as I often do), when I suddenly wondered if readers understand the terms I casually throw around in this blog. Sometimes they’re acronyms, sometimes they’re abbreviations, and sometimes they’re seemingly random words. Whatever they are, I’ve gotten increasingly familiar with them [...]

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For many photographers, the choice between dye-based and pigment-based inks is the printing equivalent of paper or plastic. We touched on the topic in our coverage of the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 Inkjet Printer and it deserves some elaboration, especially for beginners who may not even have known the choice existed. Let’s begin with a [...]

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