Just before the birth of Sara I got myself a Canon CP-400 photoprinter. It can be connected directly to my EOS 350D (and a lot of other digital cameras) and the quality is really good. Later I probably will see if I can make a direct comparision between a picture printed with the CP-400 and a picture printed in a photo-lab. Another thing I have to try out is to see if there is a driver for this kind of printers available on Linux. The protocol used to communicate with the printer is pretty much the same as the protocol used to upload pictures to a PC...