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Summary: Wow - now I got my own photo lab
Review: Let me start with the strength of this dazzling product:
FAST - SILENT - and most importantly BEAUTIFUL picture quality.
There are some more professional reviews out there for this product (http://www.steves-digicams.com/printers.html) so I don't wanna cover every aspect - just what came to my attention and hasn't been covered there.
First this thing about borderless printing. The follow up product is the S9100 where you pay 200 more for more options on borderless printing for certain paper formats. The higher resolution of 4,800 by 1,200 compared to 2,400 x 1,200 dpi for this model gives you theoretically an advantage. Everybody who compared them said that the differences are minute and only noticable with a lense. Now with the S9000 you can print borderless the following papers: A4, A3, Letter(8.5x11) and 4x6. Every other format up to 13x19 appears with border. You only get to those formats in the software if you uncheck the "borderless printing" box.
About the paper to use with this printer I can only talk about what I tried personally. The Paper Pro seems to be the best. Equally good the Ilford smooth gloss (way cheaper and comes in larger amounts of papers- up to 200 sheets per box). The Canon Matte didn't convince at all. Maybe they work if you transform your pictures with digital darkroom software to an artifical painting, other than that: don't use it.
Finally the tint. The seperated cartridge system (6 different colors) saves you quite some money here. The poto magenta and the photo cyan seem to be the most needed. Check around for best prices (www.asap-inkjet-cartridges).
I did some math and came out way cheaper on my printer than in the local photolab. Particularly with large sized pictures you end up saving a lot of money. Another important aspect is that you can be way more creative with your own printer than the lab can be. What dissapointed me the most with a professional lab was that the computer software would cut away a considerable part of the picture. Now with your own printing software you can control the actual outcome way better.
So get this product and have fun!!!
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Summary: Canon S9000......Truth in advertising
Review: Right out of the box the Canon S9000 is everything they claim.....fast, quiet, and most importantly Great Photos ! I've had my eye on the Epson 1280 for a while but when the S9000 came out I'm glad I waited. My first printer (other than a dot matrix) was a Canon BJC-610 and it was a great reliable printer and I tend to stick with brand names when I've had good luck with them. As stated in the company literature set-up is straightforward and simple, I run XP-pro and had the printer hooked up, ink installed and printing in about 15 minutes. The print alignment page came out very well and no adjustments were necessary. The first print out was on plain paper and had excellent detail. Next was a picture I took of my son and his girlfriend at a nightclub, it was approx 1.2mb and was taken with a flash on a Kodak dc4800 camera. I printed on a generic brand glossy photo paper, 8 1/2" X 11" the result was outstanding, great resolution, fantastic color, black background was perfect. Next was a print I downloaded from the internet, a 5.4mb aerial view of the World Trade center. I printed on Kodak 11" X 17" glossy photo paper. Wow! the resolution was out of this world. crisp details I took it to a friend who is a professional photographer and he was very impressed. Now for the bad news, the only reason I didn't give it five stars. The software leaves quite a bit to be desired, no print preview! When I'm printing on paper that costs more than a dollar a sheet I'd like to see my layout before I print. I know with time I'll get used to the software but most likely I'll end up getting a third party software such as photoshop. Overall I give this printer two thumbs up. Good looks, quiet, fast, and most importantly Great pictures !
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Summary: Excellent printer
Review: Superb print quality. Fast (printed a 4X6 foto in about 17 seconds, printed fullpage colorimage on 8 1/2 X 11 in 22 seconds). Easy to set up. Works fine under MAC OS X with downloaded driver. Only complaint - a 499 retail printer should ship with a usb cable. Compared to the HP 2000cse color printers we had in the office the Canon is way superior. The cse's were constantly broken and we have s_it canned the hp 2000cse printers.
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Update - just spent dollars for a new print head - almost what the new cost has dropped to. Live in a dry climate? u b hosed. Peee Ohhhd!
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Summary: The best Printer all around. For $200 it is bargain!
Review: The new i9100 is different by the plastic cover construction and price tag around $... All the same, the printing heads, the resolution and the size. 4800 dpi for i9100 is just another marketing trick. Trough the printing quality is very good, quiet and speedy. No problem at all. Use the right paper and right inks and it will do the right job for you. By far the most trouble-less photo printer I have experienced. With Os X works perfectly (as well as just everything with Apple!)
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Summary: The best Printer all around. For $200 it is bargain!
Review: The new i9100 is different by the plastic cover construction and price tag around $... All the same, the printing heads, the resolution and the size. 4800 dpi for i9100 is just another marketing trick. Trough the printing quality is very good, quiet and speedy. No problem at all. Use the right paper and right inks and it will do the right job for you. By far the most trouble-less photo printer I have experienced. With Os X works perfectly (as well as just everything with Apple!)
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Summary: Beautiful prints, reliable, and a print preview too!
Review: The other reviews here say it well. I switched to the S9000 after tiring of wasting half of every color ink cartridge on cleaning cycles on my Epson. The S9000's been 100% reliable, without a single clog. Photo quality is on par with Epson's -- that is, superb. And the printer driver's been updated since the spotlight review was written -- this version does include a Print Preview feature. The 13x19 prints are absolutely stunning! And this thing is amazingly fast. Just two downsides. First, you need to be sure to use the right paper. With Canon Photo Paper Pro or Epson's papers, prints look fantastic. With Kodak and some other brands, the ink pools and you get a "spotty" appearance. Second, the printer won't do borderless prints at 13x19. The borderless 8x10 and 4x6 prints look great, though.
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Summary: Shocking Performance
Review: The quality of output from this printer is amazing. I had no idea that inkjet technology had come this far. I was truely shocked with how beautiful the photos came out in 4x6 and 8.5 x 11 paper size - borderless! Of course, the quality of the data makes all the difference in the world. If you take a picture with a cheap digital camera, you will not get great results. Also, you must use quality glossy photo paper designed for inkjet printers. In my case, I used the Canon G4 and the Canon Photo Pro paper. The 8.5 x 11 image I printed was as good or better than what I would expect from a film camera. I have yet to try the 13 x 20 size - I need to get a better camera for that. I cannot imagine anyone being dissappointed with this printer.
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Summary: Previous reviewer is incorrect
Review: The s9000 is an incredible printer that really blows my old hp 9xx series printer away. The shadow detail is incredible, and it can truly print amazing photos that look professional. Btw, the previous reviewer is mistaken, there is a print preview screen but it has to be selected in the driver, which that reviewer obviously did not delve into. The printer is easy to use right out of the box but can also be finetuned for those who like to make an absolutely perfect print.
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Summary: I love it! Great, versatile photo printer...
Review: This is so far the best inkjet I have ever had, and since I have owned several that says a lot. I just set it up tonight and in ten minutes I was printing beautiful pictures. I started with some snapshots I had taken with my 2mp and my 4mp camera and both came out wonderful. I didn't even print their samples. I used another brands matte paper and it also came out very well, although I will still try and find a better matte paper. You can't tell the difference between these and lab prints! I will never have to use a photo lab again, especially with the software and range of sizes this printer prints. So far I see no problems with text, so I am not sure what people have been complainging about. And finally it is super fast and you can't beat the ability to replace only the color that runs out... what a cost saver! Personally the canon paper is so good I won't bother with another, and I have found several well priced dealers online to buy it from without difficulty. Overall excellent printer, so far no downsides.
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Summary: Amazing prints
Review: This printer is great--fast, easy to use, great images. I took some prints into work and the general reaction was disbelief that I printed them at home. With the (somewhat expensive)Canon Photo Pro paper it produces prints rivaling those printed by traditional photo labs. Canon has a new driver for the printer and a new printing application (Easy Photo Print) that makes adjusting printing sizes much easier and supports more paper sizes than before; it also supports papers not made by Canon--such as matte finishes. The new drivers and application also support the Exif Print standard, which allows specific photo exposure and camera settings information to be sent to the printer to assist in accurately printing an image.
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