Looking for something that will:
Have an Epson ET-2760 now, and tired of it. Lines on the pictures, and cleaning the print heads doesn’t seem to take care of everything.
Pretty sure I bought that on Clark Howard’s rec, but as with many things Clark, I got what I paid for. The cheap ink came at the tradeoff of poor print quality.
I think the problem you are going to face is the 3rd bullet point. There are lots of MFC devices that will scan, print, and copy. But when you talk about printing photos, you are dealing with a more specialized high resolution color printer.
I print all my pictures at Walgreens.
It is super cheap.
I also have a pretty good printer/copier at work that i can use in a pinch.
Used to get my prints at Costco online…think that they shut down. Walmart still does prints.
They have. The photo centers in the stores have gone away, and their website links to shutterfly with a discount. I rarely get a real photo made, but have used Walgreen’s.
Same here. My wife will use her iPad or cast to the TV to show her parents photos, they seem to like that better than looking on a phone or 4x6 photo.
She also prints out some important pictures to keep in the safe deposit box just in case the Internet is taken over by AI or an EMP. (Only half kidding 
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I have a Dell, 9015 I think.
I tried going with lowest cost per page and ended up with a Brother printer that constantly lost connection to Wi-Fi.
In prehistoric times, I took only slides and used a slide projector, Today, I put photos on a flash drive and plug in into the TV to bore our guests.
Probably the 1st time I’ve ever seen “super cheap” and Walgreen’s in the same paragraph.
Years ago I got sick of ink jet printers. The things would just stop working, even with (expensive) new ink cartridges.
I decided to spend some money on an office grade Canon laser printer. Yes, it was over $400. I think it’s over 10 years old now? I think it has payed for itself. The toner cartridges aren’t cheap but they last forever. I found some aftermarket cartridges on Amazon half the price of Canon, they work fine.
I dabbled in photography when I was in my 20’s and I always took slides using Kodachrome film. It was a better quality, and while I did have a slide projector to occasionally bore people with, I usually used a viewer to find the ones I wanted printed. This one doesn’t look like much but it means a lot to me. It’s looking up thru a power tower. The picture is almost 50 years old and has faded quite a bit but it hangs proudly in my den. When my dad saw this he really liked it. So for Christmas I had it professionally printed and framed. He kept it on an easel (not the wall) in his office. Dad was a perfectionist and what struck him was that all 4 quadrants were identical. I said it would have been perfect if the cloud wasn’t there, but to my surprise, THAT imperfection is what he liked. It was the only clue as to what it was. I was really honored that my dad proudly displayed it prominently in his office.
But with everybody’s phone serving as a camera, this is kind of true
That is a super cool picture.
I only started appreciating photography as “art” about 10 years ago.
I thought it was just “point and shoot”, but one of the programs we had in Drug Court was using art therapy to help addiction, and I got to know a few artists that one of their specialties was photography and I was impressed with the intricacies of it.
Thanks. That picture was about as close to point and shoot as you can get. I wasn’t trying to do anything. I was under the tower…looked up and thought it looked cool, so I flipped the camera up, pointed and shot. The sky was very blue when it was new, but almost 50 years exposed to sun and the environment faded it badkly
I would suggest that trying to do all-in-one is a stretch, especially when you want to do photo finishing. As others have suggested, there is a nice double throw-down printer down the street where they will do your photo finishing.
Scanning is also problematic. In some cases you really need a single sheet flat bed. In other cases you really wanna load a few pages into an auto-feeder and have both sides scanned. I do that with an epson ds-410. For color, new bride brought along a Canon mg-5200. Seems to do a pretty nice job, but the closest I have come to photo type quality was to print a Chickasaw Nation seal on fabric to go in a quilt for a squaw. The Canon also serves as a flat bed scanner.
For regular monochrome I have a couple of work horses – old Samsung (HP bought the line) ML2950 for duplex and a lesser one for single sided. You get a lot of pages for the money with a laser… I would not have bought the smaller Samsung but wife had it. It sure is cool to have all this stuff work without using windoze.
Damn tszefr, you have ALL the printers!
Sounds very familiar. My wife is constantly fussing with the connection to the Epson. That’s what I get for chasing low prices.
We don’t print much, bought a $80 HP that works fine, but had an ink subscription for a few bucks a month. My wife hates subscriptions and tried to cancel, that was a major pain in the ass. You basically have to do a factory reset and buy new ink cartridges or it defaults to having to sign up for a subscription.
Not thrilled to hear HP is trying to guarantee profits with forced subscriptions. That makes me very unlikely to buy one.
I get the business model, but subscriptions are where you lose money long term. People end up not needing it as often, forgetting about it, etc.
Tee hee! I didn’t even mention the Xerox Phaser 6022 color laser!
That’s OK though I get to keep 'em because wife has a serger and 7 sewing machines, only one of which is somewhat modern! She ain’t saying squat about my junque!
You don’t have to get the subscription, it was like 3 months free then I think 6 or 7 bucks for a 100 pages a month, they would send ink when you needed it. We don’t print that much and switched to a $4 a month plan.