Marilyn, thanks for your help. I am also looking at an Epson... have always had HP and we have a tendency to stick with what we know. My sister-in-law swears by Epson and she does a lot of photo printing and on heavy paper. It would be so much easier if I were near a Best Buy or Staples; I'll have to order and have it shipped. I would really like to 'see' one before buying! I print a lot of genealogy records and bind them using card stock for the covers and that's why it is so important that the printer takes card stock. I don't think any of the cheaper ones will so I need to go ahead and bit the bullet and get what I need! The HP I had was heavy duty and took card stock easily. Will continue looking tomorrow. Must watch the football game between Alabama and LSU. I'm an Arkansan. Wooooo Pig Sooie! You asked about preserving pictures. I scan with the highest resolution I can, and save to disk. I save not just one copy, but always two or more on different disks. And of course store the photos and copies themselves in acid free covers. With the change in storage venue... now I need to transfer from CD to DVD! Thanks again, Marilyn, Wanda ----- Original Message ----- From: "marilyn E B" <marilyneb@gmail.com> To: <gen-newbie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [GN] need help choosing printer > Wanda, > > I will try to answer both of your questions as best I can. If I had had a > sheet of any card stock or heavy weight paper I would have tried that but > I > do not have any. I think you could use it at least through the top feed. I > think which feed you could use would depend on the weight of the paper. > > I have printed black and white photos a few times and they usually very > good. I have found that their quality depends on several things; age and > condition of photo, your skill with scanning the original photo and > quality > of paper you are using. > > I had never done a color photo but I just now did my first one. I used a > school picture of my grand daughter from last year. I just copied it onto > a > sheet of regular printer paper and I am sure that affects the quality of > the scan. Even with that the colors seem to be fairly true. I can see the > highlights in her hair, details on her clothing, her smooth skin and the > fact she needs to whiten her teeth. Grandma talking : ) Now I will say I > might not have had the settings correct. My friend/neighbor thinks it is > of > framing quality. > > Now I have a question for you, how do you preserve pictures you have > copied > using a printer? > > Marilyn > > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ridge <wanda.ridge@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> Marilyn, I had looked at that printer. The only down side I saw was that >> it >> did not print photos well. I scan and print lots of photos ...some old >> photos for inclusion in family books and many of the grandchildren . Do >> you print photos from yours and how is the quality for that?