i am looking to buy a printer for some functions in the new year, i wil be selling mostly 8x6'' prints so i dont need anything bigger than a4.

i allready have a epson 3800 wich is great so i'm looking at the epson r800, it doesnt seem to be the quickest a4 printer out there but having only ever used epson i dont know wha the quality of the makes is like.

canon seem to have some quick photo printers but i dont know where to start.

the review on the cheaper (hiti) sub dye printer i had a quick read over did'nt seem much quicker than the r800 70seconds against 1min 20sec, and again i have'nt seen any prints from it.

i dont mind spending up to around £250, and of course cost per print will be a big factor.

thanks in advance for any help.

hi
I'm in Tiverton (just of junction 27 on the M5).
we could meet up sometime if u fancy a chat, very busy up till christmas though.

Thanks to Dom (thanks a lot dom )i have just diagnosed my k10d as havng a aperture problem so it needs to be sent of and fixed under warranty, has anyone got a clue on the sort of time it might take.
They said 10-15 days but they have said a lot of dates in the past and well

Pete

Thanks a lot for the help everybody
i'm sure it would of taken me ages to figure this out, sometimes its so easy to overlook the obvious.
Tanks again

well done don you found the problem, how the hell do i fix a sticking aperture, and why is it doing it on 2 different lenses.
Peter

i have just checked that don hoping you were right but it seems ok,
i have rechecked the raw data to see if i did +the ev comp not -, but i did indeed expose as i said.

i have just taken a few shots with my 50-200 da, it also overexposes at f22, if i use -3 ev, there is only some small amount of highlight cliping so i assumed that all k10's do the same.

i will try to take a shot at f16 iso 100 tomorrow, it should be sunny in the s/w.
i hope it will be me not the camera.
Thanks for the help

They were all tacken with the 16-50 da*
The two on av mode were both at iso 200, but the 3rd in m mode was 100.

sorry i meant to reply to my post on av mode exposure problems

here is my first attempt F22 av mode, -1 ev comp, 3 second exposure, iso 200



i then dialled the ev comp down to -3 ev comp and still got some highlight clipping
f.22 0.7s, iso 200



i don't know how to reduce the shutter speed further in av mode, so i used manual still f22- 0.5s, iso 100


i would love to know if there is anything i can do to make the metering system a little more accurate, maybe there are some settings i can change.

cheers Peter