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Summary: 100% Satisfied Both With Product & Service
Review: I'm just an average Computer guy. I couldn't believe how simple it was to set this printer up and get it going. Now that I've had a couple of weeks to practice and refine my Adobe skills, the prints are looking absolutely fabulous. I had one item while preparing the image to print wherein I needed to contact customer service. I called on Saturday morning and was on hold for less than a minute. The rep. guided me through my issue with complete ease and was very courteous. I'm 100% satisfied with this acquisition!!
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Summary: Best photo printer I've seen
Review: The S900 is by far the best color photo printer I've ever seen. I don't use it for anything but photos (separate laser printer for normal text), but the pictures this thing produces are amazing! Some coworkers were skeptical until I showed them the output - they're now convinced that it produces pictures as good as a professional photo lab!I've used Canon paper and HP paper in the printer, and the Canon paper works wonderfully. The HP paper didn't work well at all, but I havn't tried playing with the settings much yet. YMMV.
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Summary: The Best Yet
Review: I'm very impressed with the excellent quality of print, the speed of printing, the individual color cartridges that eliminate waste of ink and the ink levels display that informs you of how much ink there is left in the individual cartridges. I've never printed photos of high quality before until this printer came along.
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Summary: Spectacular!
Review: This is the printer I've been looking for all my life! When using Cannon photo paper, you cannot tell the printed picture from a lab print. (I am using the Cannon G1 digital camera- 3.1 megapixel). I am thrilled. The only 'problem' is that the results aren't as good when using any brand of photo paper other than Cannon, and Cannon papers are hard to come by in retail outlets. It think the issue is with the paper absorbtion differences. I most highly recommend this printer anyway. I just have to get my photo paper online.
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Summary: This printer is amazing and fast
Review: I bought this printer a few weeks ago and I am totally blown away by the quality of the color print! It is amazingly fast. And quiet. The only part that I am not too happy about is that the price dropped ... from the time of purchase. Overall, I am very happy with this printer. I highly recommend this over the slower Epson printers.
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Summary: Beware!
Review: The claims are that the colors in the prints will last twenty years. Unless you adhere very carefully to their suggestions they barely last twenty days. So you must go elsewhere to print any photos you want to keep without excessive worry.
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Summary: I expected so much more...like quality and durability
Review: After reading all the kudos on this site and on CNet, I purchased the Canon S900 in early August. Here it is, not even three weeks later, and I'm returning it. The photo print quality was no better than my old Epson (which I bought nearly 3 years ago). Worse, after less than three weeks of use, the printer gives me a message that the printer head is defective and will need to be replaced!! Three weeks?? Yikes, now I had expected more use than that. I think I'll upgrade to a newer Epson.
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Summary: Prints will fade
Review: Well the S900 and 9000 series of Canon printers with their speed and separate ink tanks represent a useful product design. However, any idea that the output produced is archival is a misnomer. At first I was satisfied with a fast and photo realistic print output, but then following only a matter of weeks I found my prints in the office prone to a color shift and then to fading. This is effect quite pronounced and occurs with Canon ink and Canon photo papers. So if you want archival stuff that lasts longer think again (try Epson) or if you are into prints that spend their days in the dark (album) then your probably ok. My personal feeling is this printer has to go. It just not good at making a lasting impression!
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Summary: Complete the Set
Review: I purchased the Canon G2 camera, and my Epson 600 gave out about the very same time. Fix or replace, that was the question. I decided to replace. The Epson 600 was a fine printer for its day. But I decided it was time to look at chewing up 3 or 4 years of technical development. I read a lot about the printers, and decided to go with the S900. Big brother to the S820 and same basic printer as the S9000 less giant print capability. It took a little soul searching, but decided that the S900 had the qualities and print sizes I would more than likely use on a regular basis. In fact, when working with film, I don't remember doing anything with a 16x20 print. So, decided to go with the printer that I would really use. The S900 did not dissapoint me. It has beautiful, vivid color prints on the Canon white glossy print paper. Quite frankly, I have yet to understand why people knock the text quality. There does not seem to be any problems that I can see. The only down side I have read is the waste ink tank that fills and you have to take the printer in for service. If that is the most I have to put up with, it will be a small price to pay indeed. I only wish they included that on the feedback panel so you can plan for it. The idea that you are surprised by the event is what I am sure that most disturbing to most people. I hope someone from Canon reads this review. It is the perfect companion to my digital camera and reproduces my printed pages faithfully. An oversized blank ink well would also be a nice enhancement. Again, there is no problem I see, I just figure that black will have the greatest demands placed on the printer, so that ink tank, if any should be oversized. As I did with the camera, I rated this printer 4 stars. The only reason it did not make 5 stars is just in case I run across the perfect printer and I did not make room for it in my ratings. The perfect printer would have ink wells that save replacements and reduce costs. It would have print heads that never clog and it would practically perform without maintenance. If anyone finds that printer, let me know. In the mean time I will use the S900 and enjoy photo printing along with great looking text pages.
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Summary: For the economizing geek in you
Review: Ink is where you make (or lose) your money with a printer and with Canon, you can't go wrong. According to CNET, you're looking at only 5 cents B&W text, 37 cents 4x6 photo, averaged out. Why? There are six replaceable cartridges. You only replace the color you need, rather than some generic color cartridge with residual red, yellow, or blue still in the tank. Zero waste. BTW, all cartridges are priced the some, so there's no benefit to hitting that "grayscale" option unless you're out of color cartridges. Is it really zero waste? Oh yes, my friend. True story. I'm printing off some long administrivia document I needed for work. The little icon has been messaging me "low on black" for quite a few pages now. Finally, it tells me I'm out. I'm thinking that I will decide when I'm out and wait for a faded page of text. It won't let me print! I pop the cover and sure enough...black is bone dry. Amazing. The last page before it went dry was perfect. Yes, the geek in me was quite happy with this. Of course, I'd been happy since day one thanks to the excellent quality of b&w, colors, photos, blah blah. It cuts the mustard. Coolest thing is online monitoring (through the control panel) of ink tank levels. Yes, very cool. When you see a tank getting down to half or so, time to get on Amazon. Unless you need Yellow, that is. For some reason, this is the only cartridge not stocked by Amazon. Back to the economic aspect, the S900 does seem pricey compared to printers of similar capabilites. If you plan to print a lot of digital photos, though, YOU NEED TO CONSIDER the price of ink per 4x6 photo over the various manufacturers. As of three months ago, Canon was the best buy in this area.
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