Why Choose Between Great Photos and Crisp Text?
Is the one-hour film lab down the street too slow for you? With a digital camera and a low-cost ink jet printer, you can enjoy instant gratification: Snap pictures during a dinner party and print digital images as guests nibble on dessert. More than ever, an ink jet printer can turn your PC into a surprisingly effective digital photo mart. Keeping an ink jet handy to print your own snapshots offers advantages over sending a roll of film off to a lab: You can use a graphics application to clean up images before printing them, and resize and combine them in layouts any way you want. And best of all, you don’t have to pay for the images that you don’t like. Unless you’re a professional photographer, however, photos won’t be the only files you’ll need to print. Some printers are marketed as being designed especially for photos, while others are supposed to be general-purpose units. Most photo-oriented ink jets do a respectable job of printing letters, spreadsheets, and so on; and many ordi
