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Do photo printers make better pictures than a regular color printer?

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1. yeahh..
2. No, they are not as good as a dot matrix printer. It's a secret the printer manufacturers don't want you to know.
3. The best photos are made at photo labs at a much lower cost than buying and using an ink-jet printer when you consider the ink, paper and time it takes to make prints. If you don't have a program like Photoshop, it will be even more difficult to make colour corrected prints using any ink-jet printer
4. Yes they do. This is because photo printers have more ink colors, typically 6 or even 8 colors to a regular printer's 4-ink system. This allows for smoother transitions between colors, and better shadow areas. Photo printers often have finer resolution, delivering much smaller ink drops onto the paper, than regular color printers as well. Also, photo printers may have more nozzles and so, are faster at delivering good images. Finally, I will disagree strongly with the other answer that inkjets do not deliver good images. Large size digital images are printed on inkjet printers for gallery display; the term used is "giclee" which is a fancy French word for an inkjet nozzle. Clearly, if such printers are used for gallery display, they are *not* inferior. See this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gicl%C3%A9e Also, it's important to also note that the color gamut, or range of possible colors, from a home inkjet printer is actually *higher* than from a non-inkjet commercial device, like the Fujifilm Frontier used commercially. See this link (check out the section labelled "in print") for diagrams showing the actual gamut of an inkjet vs. a commercial non-inkjet printer. http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/sRGB-AdobeRGB1998.htm It is also not difficult to obtain good color from a home inkjet; it just takes a little research and some software. First, you just have to profile your monitor, which can be easily done with a $70 device like the Spyder2 Link here for prices: http://computers.pricegrabber.com/monitor-accessories/m/17631337/search=spyder Next, you need to use good printing software; I happen to like Qimage which is fantastic for printing: http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage But the bottom line is that photo printers are in fact better than regular color printers. And the fact is that a home inkjet will deliver better color than a commercial printer when properly (and inexpensively) calibrated.