| Photo printers are printers capable of printing images | | | | printers and thermal-dye printers, are the most popular |
| with or without a computer. Photo printers became | | | | photo printers after inkjet photo printers. In a |
| popular with the coming of digital cameras. The major | | | | dye-sublimation photo printer, the CMYK color ribbon is |
| types of photo printers are ink-jet photo printers and | | | | heated and the color is transferred to photo paper. |
| the dye-sublimation photo printers. | | | | The CMYK color scale includes cyan, magenta, yellow, |
| Inkjet photo printer takes print by spraying dye-based | | | | and black. Dye sublimation photo printers have higher |
| or pigmented ink through a series of nozzles onto the | | | | resolution than inkjet photo printers, and can create |
| photo paper. To produce high quality photos, some | | | | clear and high quality photos. When compared with |
| innovative inkjet photo printer manufacturers have | | | | inkjet photo printers, the dye sublimation photo printers |
| come with additional colors such as light cyan and light | | | | are much faster. A good quality dye-sublimation photo |
| magenta. With a resolution of 2880 dpi, most of the | | | | printer will cost more than $150. Canon, Kodak, and |
| inkjet photo printers can produce sharp and pattern | | | | Olympus are some of the popular brands of dye |
| free photo prints. | | | | sublimation photo printers. |
| HP, Canon, Kodak, and Epson are some of the | | | | Other than ink-jet and dye-sublimation photo printers, |
| famous brands of inkjet photo printers. Canon Pixma | | | | laser photo printers and Fuji film PG-series are the |
| iP4000 and Epson Picture Mate are the most | | | | commonly used types of photo printers. The Fuji film |
| commonly used models of inkjet photo printers. On an | | | | PG-series includes Fuji film's PG3500 and PG4000-II |
| average, a top quality inkjet photo printer will cost more | | | | printers. These photo printers use a special type of |
| than $150. | | | | dye-transfer process, which gives the photograph the |
| Dye sublimation printers, better known as dye-sub | | | | look of traditional color prints. |
