The C62 is NOT a Photo Stylus. Look at Epson's inexpensive Photo Stylus models...

I have a fuji 3800 that I use a HP Photosmart 1115 to print photos with. It does a good job. Picked the printer up on clearance at walmart for 120.00 i've seen at sam's club for around 140.00..

I've got an older Epson 880 that does a fine job. I could never get high quality prints off of it or any other printer until I got luckey & talked with a Kodak rep at best buy one day. He had a huge portfolio of shots taken with 1-3 meg Pixel cameras & all looked great. The trick is in the paper & the settings. If you purchase the high gloss premium or ultra Kodak photo paper, read the package. There is a kodak web site listed on the photo paper package.

We get really nice prints with a 1 Meg Pixel Sony camera. Good luck. Todd..

No way. Kodak papers on an Epson are TERRIBLE! Okay, not terrible, but due to the surface absorption of the paper being completely wrong for the Epson inks, the black ink spreads after 6 months. You'll think your prints have sprouted fungus! You won't go wrong with an Epson Photo Stylus model that is priced around $100, that is replacing the 820. I haven't looked at their newest models so I can't tell you what that model replacing the 820 is, but that's the one to get...

Actually I finally bought the Epson Photo Stylus 820 and really am impressed with it. Heck, my pictures look simply perfect! So I found a nice combo with my Fuji and my Epson, now I need to match my monitor so I can get a better idea of how it will look when printed since the printed image looks like the original view on the camera's lcd but on the monitor it looks a little different which makes it impossible to retouch. What do I need and .icm file for my printer? BTW if anyone wants to know the photos look superb no pixels or anything visible just like a good quality regular photo and the color is very accurate...

Well, if you use a Mac, it's pretty easy with a Colorsync workflow and softprofiling one's monitor with the included monitor utility or Adobe's Gamma utility. Using a PC, I suppose if you have Photoshop, there might be a Gamma utility allowing you to softproof your monitor to create a custom profile. If your prints are matching what your camera is showing, perhaps, the PIM2 feature is at work. That is, the printer recognizes what digicam you are using, and thus applies the correct color profile. As for your monitor, if you don't/can't softproof, then perhaps if you can select sRGB as your monitor profile, as presumably this is the color workspace that the Fuji 2650 is working in...

I have a fuji finepix 2600 and an Epson 820 also. Could you tell me what software you are using and the settings? I'm having off and on strange problems. Tried to save some money and bought compatible cartridges. I printed (or tried to) one of my daughter's wedding pics and the black tuxes were flourescent orange! Changed back to Epson and the color looks good but still having problems with sizing the pics.

Thanks for any suggestions. I'm very new to digital cameras and photo printing.

Lisa..

Hi Lisa,.

Well I finally bought the Epson photo 820 and am really happy with the image quality it delivers specially in the Premium Glossy photo paper. Right now I am using the Photoimpression 3 programs that came with the printer since it's pretty easy. When I need to edit and crop more specifically I am using Ulead Photo express (it came with an old Ezonics Mega Cam I bought). But most of the time I just check the digital cam correction option in the printer set up screen and thats it. Did you downloaded the latest Epson 820 driver? It gives you an extra "resolution".

Regards..

Hey, I was wondering if you could send me the Finepix 2650 drivers?..