Brother Printer for Photos

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

Hello,
We have had great luck with Brother laser printers for our office clients so would like to stick to that brand. We have a residential customer that has had nothing but problems with HP printers and it's gotten to the point where it's time to replace their HP Photosmart 7520. They use it to print photos.

Does anyone know what the equivalent or a good print quality inkjet photo printer from Brother is?

TIA.

 

[Your PCMD]

I have 2 Brother HL-3170CDW laser printers and a Brother MFC-L8900CDW deployed at a local photo studio and they have no issues with them. Of course, your/theres budget dictates what to get. HP printers are crap now-a-days.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

I have 2 Brother HL-3170CDW laser printers and a Brother MFC-L8900CDW deployed at a local photo studio and they have no issues with them. Of course, your/theres budget dictates what to get. HP printers are crap now-a-days.

I have the HL-3170CDW for our office. It's been great for office documents, but I tried glossy paper a couple times and it just didn't look that great. Never tried actual photo paper. The 8900CDW is going to be more than they want to spend.

 

[alexsmith2709]

You dont want to be using glossy photo paper on lasers, thats a recipe for disaster!
For an inkjet photo printer look at Canon (their 5/6 cartridge system printers, not their 2 cartridge system printers). Older Epsons were good but not anymore and HP dont make any good photo printers. Brother again are not that great for photo printing

 

[coffee]

Photo paper will just jam in the Brother printers. They are pretty much copy paper only.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

You dont want to be using glossy photo paper on lasers, thats a recipe for disaster!
For an inkjet photo printer look at Canon (their 5/6 cartridge system printers, not their 2 cartridge system printers). Older Epsons were good but not anymore and HP dont make any good photo printers. Brother again are not that great for photo printing

You can get laser specific gloss paper. https://www.amazon.com/Hammermill-Premium-Letter-Bright-163110R/dp/B0000AQOAK

 

[alexsmith2709]

You can get laser specific gloss paper. https://www.amazon.com/Hammermill-Premium-Letter-Bright-163110R/dp/B0000AQOAK

glossy paper yes, but not photo paper. That kind of paper has a glossy sheen to it and is nowhere near as thick as photo paper. It is uk equivalent of 120gsm. Photo paper has a full gloss layer on which if put through a laser printer will melt in the fuser and cause a horrible mess. Photo paper usually starts at around 260gsm (around 100 lb american weight i think) which as @coffee mentioned, paper that thick can cause jamming problems with a lot of Brother machines.

 

[Altster]

Tell them to set up an account with their local drug store (Walgreens in my part of the world) and send their pictures there to be printed. The price is right and the prints are very nicely done.

My Brother printer is a color laser, but in my opinion, doesn't do a very good job at printing photo-quality pictures - even when I used the paper tray bypass feature. So I'll just send my pictures off to the drug store - OR - take them a USB stick with the photos I want printed and pay them a visit in person.

 

[Porthos]

Tell them to set up an account with their local drug store (Walgreens in my part of the world) and send their pictures there to be printed. The price is right and the prints are very nicely done.

My Brother printer is a color laser, but in my opinion, doesn't do a very good job at printing photo-quality pictures - even when I used the paper tray bypass feature. So I'll just send my pictures off to the drug store - OR - take them a USB stick with the photos I want printed and pay them a visit in person.

Exactly my advice to clients. Ink when printing color is like florring a 4 barrel carb back in the day. It uses up lots of expensive ink.

 

[GTP]

When you can get prints for 9 cents each at Harvey Norman, why would anyone bother trying to print photo's?