Non sublimation profile or not?

[JMugs]

Mrs Janners is bit handy with a camera. She has been asked about producing cards from her photos. Simple question does a printer with the manufacturer inks on the manufacturer paper normally need a profile?
Our current Kodak general printer looks terrible with photos.
Janners.

[JMugs]

Just remembered how much I paid for it ..... Maybe that's why.
I am comparing it to s HP photo printer that we had previously, Mrs Janners thinks the HP was 5 times the price about 10 years ago that died recently ..... Smoking!

[Paul]

if you have oryginal ink and paper you dont need icc profile. profile is already included in your system and printer driver using it by default.

[JMugs]

Thanks Paul
That is as I assumed. The difference being then a specific photo printer that cost £150 10 years ago produced a far better image then my £39 Kodak printer of today, because of the quality of the printer itself.

Now to do some homework on what printer will best handle card for Cards and produce quality images. I can see Mrs Janners may have set me quite a task here.

Janners

[James990]

I use the Epson Photo R220 or the Epson Photo 1400 for my photo prints. It does edge to edge and they come out sooo good!

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we use ImagingCentre for cards - works out about 24p each inc envelopes and cellophanes. Only product we outsource.

[James990]

What size are they?

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A6 I think.
http://www.theimagingcentre.co.uk/price-list.php