Home photo printers

This is a bit of a surprise:  a survey of 100 printers showed that many home printers -- using the right ink -- produce better prints than those produced by photo shops:

A survey carried out by PC Pro magazine looked at which of 100 home photo printers offered a better deal than handing your snaps to a photo lab.

The tests found that images from top PC printers kept their colour longer than professionally produced photographs.

But using the wrong printer cartridge could means snaps fade in months, warned the magazine.

The printers the survey found to outperform commercial photo shops (and even wedding photographers and their prints) included these as their top-rated:

Epson Stylus Photo R800

Canon Pixma iP3000

HP PhotoSmart 8150

Canon Pixma iP4000R