Photo printer represents an easy-to-use device that operates by pressing a single bottom. A photo printer is turned on very easily and it prints photos directly from a computer or a digital camera. It should be noted that a sublimation photo printer is created on the bases of high technologies; therefore its printing resolution is higher than that by the laser photo printers. In the issue you receive pictures which correspond to a magazine printing quality 300*300 dpi. The quality of colour rendition makes up 16.7 million colours and tints. Such photo printers dispose of built-in programs that are intended for pictures’ correction. In addition, such a photo printer is very compact, that is why you can even take on the trip.

The principle of a sublimation photo printer is the following: a picture is transferred on a photo paper by the means of heating the dye and mixing of 3 colors at one point. Thus there an imprint remains on a special thermo paper. In the capacity of source materials for the given photo printers one uses film cartridges. The film in its turn has layers of hard dye stuffs which contain three basic colours. These colours are blue, yellow and purple. While heating, the dye evaporates from the film, transferring into gaseous state without any liquid transference. Such transition is called sublimation. Further the gasiform dye falls on the paper. It is worth mentioning that the printing head of a sublimation printer includes tiny heating elements. Each heating element gets warm closely equal. Consequently, dye evaporation and its absorption by photo paper depend on the temperature of the given elements. Such method of printing presupposes safe dye fixing on a paper. In the issue, the surface of the paper becomes smooth and glossy.

Nowadays the sublimation technology has found wide application in the capacity of photo printers for consumer users. The technology in question is highly appreciated by professionals of art of photos as well. Therefore the printers in question are often met at professional workshops and film-developing laboratories. It is notably, that one needs special paper and cartridges for the operating of sublimation printers.

One of the main disadvantages of sublimation photo printers consist in high costs for consumable suppliers, however there is an irrefutable argument. If you want to receive professional photos, a sublimation photo printer is the best choice for you.

Some people hesitate in the choice concerning a new photo printer. The crux of the matter is that at the present moment in the world market there is a considerable amount of photo printers, which differ in constructional properties as well as in concrete specifications. Before making the right decision on either a laser or inject printer one should examine the individual properties of these types of printers each taken separately.

As far as laser photo printers concerns, their principle of operation consists in putting the matt toner on the paper. If one takes into consideration the structure of a picture, it is notably that it will remind you of a printed photo in newspapers. On its closer examination one notices, that a photo, which was printed by a laser photo printer, consists of tiny black circlets. Therefore, the quality of printing is determined by the size of the given circlets. If a printing resolution is of high quality, in this case the circlets will be less noticeable. Thus the picture will be qualitative in tote. Currently, laser photo printers allow you to get pictures which are very close to the quality of photos. However, good quality also means high price. Laser photo printers that are cheaper are at disadvantage, concerning the quality of printing. Among the other properties of laser printers, one can single out high speed of printing.

The inject technology of photo printing enjoyed wide popularity over a long period of time. The inkjet printing presupposes the formation of a picture by the means of liquid ink, which is thrown off by a printing head under pressure. It is noteworthy that inkjet photo printers create halftones, by throwing tiny drops of ink on the paper. The drops are put over each other. In the following way a picture gets its tint and color saturation. A picture, printed by the inkjet printer also consists of definite circlets, and each of these circlets has a definite color. These color circlets are very tiny; therefore they are sightless by human eyes. In the issue, a printed picture looks like a continuous one. Different colours and tints are created by the means of the screening process. The given process implies mixing of points of different colours in a single matrix. It should be taken into consideration that screening reduces the resolving capacity of an inkjet photo printer. For all these reasons, the manufactures use different ways of rasters’ applying.

One of main disadvantages of an inkjet photo printer is the streakiness of pictures; however the latest technologies practically have eliminated this disadvantage.

Inkjet photo printers also means good quality of picture printing, their durability and a wide choice of photo paper of different types.