Frankly, I don't understand why a person thinks he needs his own digital printer, by the time you buy the very expensive inks and paper, you probably have not saving much money, if any, and the digital home printers are very slow. You can have a nearby digital print lab. do it in about an hour and with professional equipment and they are cheap. The only advantage I can see is that you can fool around with the images with your cumputor and PhotoShop, -which I'm not knowledgeable in doing. My son-in-law does it all the time though. Eccept when he's doing wedding photographs, then he has a professional lab process his digital images.