i have always wanted a photo printer for almost 10 years now. Perhaps its because the earlier photo printers from back in the late 90's did not produce great quality photos, I have always been hesitant about buying one. But ever since I bought a new digicam I have been taking tons of random photos and I have been stocking them all on my computer. I never felt the strong urge to take my photos to a printing center and allow them to view my random silly family photos, so I searched the web for several months to find me a cheap affordable decent quality home photo printer. I bought this printer thinking that the quality would be okay but not so great like the photo centers. boy was I wrong! the quality of these printers are amazing! I've been printing pictures like crazy, making photo collages, scrap books etc. This is a very fun, pleasant little machine to have in your home :)