We have an HP 970cxi and an Epson 870. While color print outs of our digital photographs look good on both, particularly on photo quality heavy matte paper, we rarely use them for that purpose.

In reality we print out very few of the digital pictures we take. Only the best get chosen and only when we can not send them to friends or family as an email attachment. We use www.ofoto.com, a Kodak company. We upload the image, select the size of the print and how many, give them a delivery address and take another hit on our credit card.

The results over the last ten months and some fifty prints have been excellent. I am still not quite sure how they deal with images we upload to them that do not have the same aspect ratio as normal photo stock paper. Perhaps there is cropping going on that we do not recognize but in any case the results look good and the service is good.

The best part is that we no longer fiddle with B&W trial runs and disappointing color prints when we did not get everything set as we should have before hitting "Print."