Not to add to the workload, but... I would like to see your forum review printers that can produce and/or are geared towards printing digital photos. As an owner of a Epson Stylus photo and a Olympus D400 Zoom I am wondering if there are compelling reasons to move to some of the newer printers. I have been using the Epson for some time to print scanned prints and more recently to print the digital photo's, but I find myself wondering about the newer ALPS, Epson Photo 700 and the new Lexmark. How about completing the cycle. The camera's and scanner's get the images in, so how about some input on the best way to get the pictures back out. That, or help me start a fund to buy grandma a PC. Just a suggestion.

-- William C. H. Pitt (wchp@javanet.com), January 06, 1999

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Yes, we've definitely had this on the "list" for some time! Thus far, we're barely keeping up with the camera/scanner world, so haven't had the resources to spare. We've added some writing talent recently, and Dave (me) is shedding some other work that detracts from IR activities. Given our current schedule, the soonest we could look at the printer area in any depth would probably be late spring (!). It's definitely on our minds though. There's at least one site that tracks printer developments, although they don't do the sort of testing that we do for the cameras - more just report on new models, etc. I don't recall the link, but Phil Askey has a link to them on his site. Go to http://photo.askey.net/ and hunt around for the printer link.

(We're going to be posting a mammoth internet imaging directory here, and hopefully will have links there for printer-related sites as well. This project is one of the reasons we won't be getting to printers ourselves for a while longer yet...)

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), January 08, 1999.