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Summary: Amazon Does it Again
Review: Got the i850 printer in absolute record time from Amazon and set it up immediately. Works exactly as advertised and I am more than pleased with its performance as both a text printer and a photo printer. Set up was extremely easy and I was in operation in less than 30 minutes. Did both 8.5X11.5 and 4X6 photos. Excellent detail, true color and the software is very user friendly. As a Small Business I need this maximum flexibility at a reasonable price and the Canon i850 delivered on both...
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Summary: Great all-around printer!
Review: With inkjet manufacturers dividing the line between business and photo printers, it's become harder and harder to find a good all-around printer, but the i850 fits the bill. It's amazingly fast and quiet (especially compared to the Epsons I've owned) and the output is outstanding for a ... printer. If you're looking for a printer that can handle text and photo printing without guzzling ink, this is it.
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Summary: Tight printer
Review: See tomshardware.com for an indepth review and benchmark comparison with other photo printers (look for the i950 printer review, the article compares it with the i850). The i950 is only slightly better in quality, but more than a hundred dollar more. I've bought this printer after weeks of research. My roommate and I are very pleased. A must have if you have a digital camera. A great value for high outputs also. I printed a 8x10 at high resolution, and it came out awesome and in less than a minute!! Very fast. Just because it's labeled as a photo printer does not mean it only does photos. It gives great quality on text and on normal color graphics, and I've heard it saves ink doing so. If I remember correctly, tomshardware.com said that it prints about 20 pages per minute b/w text. Again, very fast. The page feeders and paper holders are built on, and the printer closes into a box without any detachments. So what it does not have a card reader, which is a useless idea in my opinion. Most people, I think, prefers to see their pictures on their computer first and maybe edit them. Plus printers that have card readers does not support all formats, such as xD (which I have). I'm surprised that it is priced so low. Looking for a high quality photo printer without paying too much, just buy the i850 and you're guaranteed to be happy with it (unless you're the geeky type who must have better stuff than your friends and will pay anything to get it). You'll get more than what you pay for.
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Summary: Not perfect, but prints very well.
Review: Makes a loud whirring noise when beginning a printout. Makes a similar noise between subsequent pages. It is quiet as it is actually printing. But between pages, it's kinda noisey. You can hear the motor and the rollers as it spits out each page. Text quality is fine in spite of what some people have said. With black & white text in draft mode, the text is good... clear and sharp. But any "colored" text or text imbeded within color graphics is not as sharp in draft mode. In fact, the text can be rather jagged. This can easily be corrected by switching to a higher quality setting. Photos are pretty awesome. 4 x 6's look like they came from a lab. I have only used Canon photo paper for photos. So, I can't make a judgement on other papers. May not be the quietest printer around. But for the price, it would be hard to beat the i850.
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Summary: What a great printer
Review: I bought this printer based on both the many positive reviews I found on Amazon and Canon's Mac support (I use OS X). Installation was painless and I am now producing fantastic borderless prints on Canon Photo Paper Plus Glossy in seconds using iPhoto. Less expensive than the HP Photosmart 130 I was considering, and the HP only prints 4x6 and the Mac support is not as good. The quality is a little better than the HP Photosmart 230 used by my roomate, with the same camera. Bottom line: a great value for a photo printer and especially nice for Mac users.
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Summary: Soooo AWESOME!!
Review: I shopped and shopped for 6 weeks for a new printer, I saw the i850 on Amazon, liked the reviews but wanted to see it in person before I bought. Nobody had one on the shelves! So I looked at other models, HPs ect., just wasn't convinced and I kept coming back to the i850. So, I stuck my neck out and ordered it. I am so glad I did because it is AWESOME! So quiet I have to look at it to see if its printing, so fast I can't go do something else while I'm waiting for my pages to print, and such great prints I'll never have to go to the drug store again! We are RVers and it travels with us and size-wise it fits nicely on the dinette bench next to the table. The delivery time was super and easily tracked. Amazon is AWESOME too!
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Summary: Outstanding Printer!!!
Review: We bought this printer to upgrade our virtually obsolete HP Deskjet 697C. It has far exceeded our expectations in every regard. (Of course, the standards we were used to with the older HP printer weren't difficult to exceed.) Nevertheless, the Canon i850 is amazing. The text quality is outstanding. The photo quality is even more outstanding. (Especially on the "Canon Photo Paper Pro" paper, which they strategically include 5 sheets of in the package with the new printer bundle. It's a "get you hooked" sample because pictures printed on this paper from the i850 actually exceed some of the pictures we've gotten back from photo labs.) The noise level of the i850 when printing is outstanding. It is super quiet. With our old printer, we actually had to leave the room to make phone calls because it was so loud. The i850 is so quiet that we have to visually check the machine to actually see it working in order to know it's printing. The i850 has outstanding speed. On draft mode, it actually shoots a sheet of paper out so fast that you think it will fly out of the machine. In standard printing mode, it is still remarkably fast and the text quality is ultra crisp. All of the above features, combined with its tremendous ease of use and low ink costs, made this purchase a no-brainer for us. So far, we've found nothing bad to say about this printer. We're easily impressed after using an older HP for so long, but this printer is outstanding. Hence the name of this review, "outstanding printer".
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Summary: i850 Review
Review: I have been using HP and Epson printers for some years and this is my first Canon. I still use a HP 960cse at home. This is the best printer I have ever used. Extremely fast. I use it with a Mac on OS 10.2.5 and Canon has a driver that runs native in this system. It is quiet and easy to set up. For the price I just do not see anything better out there. I am considering replacing my HP960cse at home with this printer as HP support for the Mac is not very good. Great job Canon.
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Summary: It's Exactly what I wanted.
Review: I bought this printer because of its speed. I use it mainly for drafting, so I wanted really quick, very crisp black and white images. I was not dissappointed. I haven't tried to print photos on it, yet, but judging just by it's performance on B&W, they should be great. This printer is fast. The only drawback is, if it sits unused for a couple of days, it has to go through a "warming up" routine that takes a minute. However, it's always whisper quiet and after it warms up it's really fast. I recommend it.
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Summary: very good imaging, good user control, low maintenance
Review: prints fast, pretty quietly (2/3 notches above white noise), and beautifully. i've owned it for about 5 months now. bought it to print out a portfolio of my design work and my resume, so print quality was pretty important. (it even prints decently well from AutoCAD!) it's user friendly, as in the user has control to adjust print settings, and if the nossle wrecks, it is replacable via canon. ink is pretty reasonable for separate colors (CMYK). So far i haven't had to replace any of the cartridges yet, even though I've printed out about 200 resumes and about 30+ sheets of work. so far it's been pretty low maintenance.
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