M E - Have you not thought about using you printer to produce photo's? I do it all of the time using my HP Photosmart printer, the results are fantastic. If I am printing something I tend to go for full A4 page size. The photo paper is now fairly inexpensive, and the inks, I do not buy HP inks at their silly prices, but get generic one's on E-Bay, I think the last one's I got were only about £20, and that was for three full sets on inks, (my printer has five colours and one black). Also, the actual printer are now really cheap, even for a good one, no need to pay more than £100 for a photo printer. I would certainly recommend my printer which retails around the £100 mark.