Most of us can remember the days when a photo enthusiast spent a fair chunk of change with a professional photo lab. A good lab not only developed your negatives and slides but would also put a great deal of effort into printing them. Getting color balance, brightness and contrast, and other tonal features of a photograph right were not the easiest tasks to accomplish in an amateur’s darkroom.
In the digital age, things aren’t all that different. Most of us aren’t exactly experts with photo editing software and the fact is minor differences in how LCD displays show us color can throw off your results. Photo quality paper isn’t cheap so every time your photo printer spits out an image with unexpected differences between what you wanted to see and what shows up on the printed page, it costs time and money and proves extremely frustrating.
This is why I am excited about the launch of Dell’s newest color photo printer, the P703w All-In-One Printer. This color inkjet printer uses Kodak Color Technology to provide outstanding 1,200 dpi color printing on Dell Premium Photo Paper. It uses a separate print head and ink tanks to produce superb color accuracy and excellent ink and paper economy. It also comes with an internal wireless network adapter for convenient use from anywhere in your home and if you have a router capable of Wi-Fi Protected Setup, the P703w supports that simple and secure method of getting it connected to your home network.
One of the best features of the P703w is the Dell Imaging Toolbox software. While this software is on our more conventional inkjet printers launching this year, the version packaged with the P703w has some unique features designed to take advantage of the printer’s superior photo capability.
The photo editing and printing features of the Dell Imaging Toolbox offer an array of very simple one-click tools that produce outstanding photos. The Kodak Perfect Touch feature instantly provides excellent contrast and brightness adjustments to your photos but you can also go in and tweak your pictures in great detail if you feel the need.
The P703w is an excellent high-speed inkjet printer on plain paper, but make no mistake – the reason you will want this printer is for printing outstanding quality photographs on photo paper.
In my experience, you can’t find a better photo-quality printer without spending several times the $189199price. The Dell Imaging Toolbox software and the wireless network adapter are included in that price.