Dye-Subs Aren't Dead Yet
With digital cameras becoming ubiquitous and more capable, the need for photo-quality printers has never been more pressing. Although dye-sublimation technology once reigned supreme, today's photo-quality ink-jet printers offer equal or better quality, with a much wider choice of paper stocks. We rounded up ten of the latest and greatest photo printers -- seven ink-jets and three dye-subs -- and put them to the Macworld Lab torture test. The two clear winners, the Epson America Inc. Stylus Photo 1270 and the Hewlett-Packard Co. DeskJet 932C, are both ink-jet printers, but one of the dye-subs -- the Panasonic Corp. PV-PD2100 -- deserves an honorable mention.