Speaking of things with magic filters, Canon has announced two new consumer printers today whose most notable features are that they let you skip Photoshop if all you want is something like toy camera, miniature or fisheye to jazz up your shots. There’s also something that claims to be able to give you softer depth-of-field more like DSLRs. Both models can print to DVDs and CDs directly. The MG5320 is a wireless all-in-one model and the iP4920 just a mere inkjet printer. If you want to read all the sordid details, including how later this fall Canon’s app for Android and Apple will update to let you scan documents and beam them right to your productivity-killer Angry Birds handheld smartphone, hit the jump and slug away through Canon’s press release.
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DPReview now reviewing printers, secrets of the universe revealed
For those of you looking to take up the exciting practice of printing your photos at home the fine folks at DPReview have added reviews of printers on their site. As of this post they have just over 204 printers in their database for side-by-side comparison of their specifications, but no in-depth reviews have been posted yet. Having relied heavily on DPReview’s database of D-SLR and lens specifications and reviews in the earliest part of my time here at Roberts, I’m glad to see that they’re adding more data to the database.
Epson Mail-In Rebates for your R1400 or R1900
Kicking off a new practice here at Roberts -we’ll be posting info about Mail In Rebates here on Roberts Raw! I’m now the Web Lackey overseeing the uploading of the rebate documents, so if you’ve got questions, comments, concerns -you can drop me a line at nhenry@robertsimaging.com.
Right, serving up a pair of Mail In Rebates from Epson – Get $80 back on an Epson Stylus 1400 Ink Jet purchased from us between July 4th and October 2nd 2010. Epson Stylus R1900 Ink Jet printers garner a $150 rebate. Now the money comes back in the form of a check from Epson, and it could take 8 weeks -but this is pretty standard Mail In Rebate behavior.
Give us a ring at 1-800-726-5544 to speak with a sales associate about the full details or visit our rebate center.
Canon and Epson Rebate Synergy!
Yeah, that title has me a little freaked out too.
If you’re looking to buy an Epson Stylus R1900 or an Epson Stylus R2880 and a current Canon D-SLR* you can get $450 back from Epson -so long as you purchase them together between August 1st, 2010 and August 31st, 2010.
For full terms and conditions, give us a ring at 1-800-726-5544 or check out the .pdf on in our Rebate Center.
*EOS 50 D, EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 7D, EOS Rebel T1i, EOS Rebel T2i, EOS Rebel XSi, EOS Rebel XS
Canon and Microsoft Bring Drivers For Wide-Format Printers to Windows 7
Boy, that’s one blog post title that says it all, right there. So, I’ll keep this short and just provide you the link in case drivers to make your Canon printers work with Windows 7 is exactly what you’ve been needing:
http://www.usa.canon.com/opd/controller?act=OPDSupportWindows7Act
Quick Print
Yesterday, about 35 minutes before the closing bell rang on the sales floor, one of my co-workers (Micheal Wilson if you need to put a name to the mention) brought Mr. Jim Alkire, a friend of his to me for a little information and help on printers. His desire was a lab quality printer that would print up to 11×14. The Canon 9000 and 9500 immediately came to mind. The problem was we didn’t have any on hand and there is scuttlebutt that Mark II versions are soon to be shipping from Canon. Jim asked if there was a good Canon printer at the 8 1/2 by 11 size that might fill the bill. He also asked if he could print from his Canon Digital SLR camera or memory card, could his wife also print from her Olympus Digital point and shoot camera? I led him to the Canon printers and started to recommend
the Pixma MP980 mutli-purpose printer that has built in card reader, document, print, slide and film scanning capabilities. He said that did much more that he needed his printer to do. Right next to that stack of printers was another stack of new Canon Pixma iP3600 printers. I said this a a very good inexpensive photo printer and has Pict Bridge input to direct print right from the both cameras.
“Do you have one on display?” He asked as time was winding down on the retail day. “No, but I can open this up and set it up if you would like a demonstration, ” I offered. Please was the response.
The Prints and the Pauper.
Someday your Prints may come, if you ordered online and wanted images larger than 8×10 you may have a long wait. You might get yor prints in a tube that need to be flattened before you can use them, or worse they might damaged in transit.
Okay, enough of the doom and gloom scenario’s, you don’t have to stay up nights pacing the floors hoping the custom lab you sent your images off to doesn’t mess up the colors and the crop and then send them back in tissue paper package that begs to be bent, folded, spindled and mutlitated.
Why, don’t you? Because Epson is rebating several of its most popular larger format consumer photo paper printers right now. Even better your Roberts Imaging team has them, and so can you.
The Epson Stylus Photo 1400 Wide Format Printer can print high quality photo paper from 4″x6″ all the way up to 13″x19″ size, and there is an instant rebate of $50 on this printer, no need to mail-in and wait. At 249.97 carry it home pricing you can recoup your large print budget with just a few high quality photographic treasures.
Are Your Papers In Order?
So you bought a new camera. Maybe you got yourself a new Sony Cybershot or a Panasonic Digital camera or a DSLR, or even one of those high def camcorders that do stills in high enough resolution that they could be printed on a big professional printer. You may not have the ‘cake’ for an Epson Wide format printer, or need to print on wide format paper, but you still want good prints.
Let’s say you buy one of the new multi-purpose office style printers like the Canon MP980 or the Epson Artisan 700 or 800 that print in true photo quality. What do you do next? Print your precious puppy photos on stationary? Index cards? No I don’t think so. You want them to look as good as lab prints, last as long too and you want to do it yourself. So what paper do you use?
We carry a myriad selection of ink jet papers right here at Roberts Imaging. The most popular brands like Ilford, Kodak, Inkpress and Epson and many others. All of these companies offer different styles, surfaces and sizes too. Then there are specialty papers to look at like Moab, Legion and Harman. So where do you start?
The most popular paper surface is the Luster or Smooth Pearl look. Luster is not as shiny as Glossy papers, doesn’t fingerprint easily and is heavy enough to have a durable and true photographic feel. According to one of our sales reps’ Ilford’s Smooth Pearl is the number one selling home printer paper in the world, Epson’s Premium Luster is their top paper too, and we sell more Inkpress Luster than any of their other surfaces. These papers come in sizes from 4×6 inch all the way up to 44″ inch wide by 100 foot rolls, so they do work in that Epson wide format or Canon IPF series professional printer if you did splurge. We have sample prints and swatch books available if you want to try other surfaces too, so don’t just squint at that monitor print and share your photos. You know you want too.
Canon PIXMA printer rebates are ending soon !
If you are looking for a great 13×19 inkjet printer deal, you better hurry! The current promo on the Canon PIXMA Pro 9500 and Pro 9000 are ending on January 17, 2009. These printers can make a beautiful print from good photo paper. The Pro 9500 has a $200 rebate on the printer and if you couple it with a Canon Digital SLR camera like the EOS 40D or 50D, you get $400 back! The Pro 9000 has a $100 rebate on the printer and $300 back if you couple it with the 40D or 50D. Quite a deal! Makes the Pro 9000 only $200 after rebates. These are great printers. I own a Pro 9000 and have used it for over a year now, and I love the print quality! They are quiet, fast, light on ink usage, and the heads don’t dry out easily.
Fourth Wall, Meet Breaking
So, I didn’t post anything yesterday, making it my first work day in quite some time without a post. And why? Easy: Writer’s Block.
I was wandering all over our page, looking at stuff, trying to find something I could expand on, but nothing was striking me. So, I finally manned it up and just logged in. And there’s this note saying “Ilford wide format paper, talk about Ilford wide format paper.” And, you know, rather than argue against how I’d even make that work as a post, I’m just going to run with it.
So, Ilford wide format paper, not to be mistaken for Epson wide format paper, I’m going to level with you, the last time I used Ilford it was in a darkroom, but, I do know I can buy their digital paper in “pearl” finish, which I know will be a “luster” or “semi-gloss” finish, which I’ve always liked more than pure gloss (prone to smudges and annoying reflected light) or matte (which always just seems kind of lifeless, I want my art to lie to me a little). And it claims instant dry ink setting, which I also like. Surely I’m not the only one alive who gets impatient watching a printer bring my image to life one pass at a time, right?
Ha, so there we go. Take that, persnickety little note.