If your budget can stand a $1200 hit, you can shop around and find an HP-4550N color laser printer that will (IMHO) produce better quality pictures at a fraction of the cost per picture of an ink jet printer.

One of my original requirements was:

- Deliver solid, film-like color on glossy photo paper.

I was under the impression that a laser printer could not do this. Pages that come out of a laser printer, as far as I know, always look like laser prints rather than photographs printed on photographic film.

I'm willing to be sold, however. If anyone can convince me otherwise, I will listen. Who's got some evidence in this area?