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Summary: Damb Good but could be better!!!!!
Review: I have owned the s800 for over a month now and I am very pleased with most of it's performance!
It prints great quality photo prints and is super quiet, also very easy to use. I like to experiment with settings to see what happens (what resaults I get) So a few more advanced settings would have been nice.
ONE BIG downer with the S800 is that it costs almost $100 US ($185AU Dollars) to replace all the ink cartriges at once. So I hope thay don't all finish at once one day. Also you need to buy a full set of inks each year , so as to get the new print head that comes with a whole set.Canon advises to replace the print head 0ne time every year for the average user(whoever he is).
Another thing that as far as I know all buble jet printers (& laser for that matter) have a problem with is printing on any surface, such as plane old plastic (not the special transparency stuff) A printer manufacturer should come up with a new printer that has ink which will print on anything even glass if you could feed it through your printer. Even better Canon should just bring out a range of more permanent inks ,like marker pen ink that writes on anything. I WILL BUY IT BY THE DOZENS every week and I know many people who would especialy if it was for a printer as good a quality as this THE CANON S800. With ink like that the small home buisiness could use the one printer to do everything even the plastic packaging your plastic printed Key rings (printed by your canon S800)are packaged in it would save the small develiping SOHO & Shop a small fortune. Canon would monopolise the market with that product. SO WAKE UP CANON!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: So far so good!
Review: I just set up my new S800 today and so far it's working great. The photo quality is fantastic! I printed a high-res image onto one of the glossy 4x6 sample sheets they include and you really can't tell it's not a genuine photo. Setup was nice and easy - I had no problems with the drivers or instructions. Now I just need to buy more paper and I'll be good to go. Thank you to all the helpful reviews on here - they're why I bought the product and why (I hope!) I'll continue to be happy with it as others are, too.
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Summary: Highest Quality Photo Printer you can buy
Review: I purchased this printer last night and was absolutely amazed at the quality. I have owned and used many color printers including an HP4500N color laser printer that I use all the time for work. And believe it or not, the quality of these print outs is better. Canon included a pack of sample 4x6 glossy paper and I printed out a picture that I took with my digital camera while in Milan. It was unbelievable. It looked exactly like a normal 35mm photo.In purchasing this printer I also considered the S630, and the HP 1218, 1215 and 1115 models. I can't speak for the quality of those printers but I can speak for the quality of this printer and it is exceptional. It prints at 2400x1200 which is the same as the other printers but it uses more separate color cartridges which I think makes the difference. The HP printers use one cartridge which gets expensive when you have to replace it. The S630 uses 2 color cartridges but the S800 uses 6 individual ink tanks. There are a couple of things that were not perfect. 1. Setup took longer than I expected. (mainly because my wife was helping J) 2. It does not print edge to edge. Meaning that it will not print all the way to the edge of the paper. But to get that feature, you will pay a lot more and probably wont get the same quality. Its just as good to get this printer and the paper that is perforated. Believe me when I say that I am very impressed. The photo quality is unbeatable. You literally can't tell the difference between a developed 35mm photo and these print outs. You will not be disappointed. I highly recommend this printer.
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Summary: I Don't Get It
Review: I read all these great reviews but my photo output doesn't come any where near professional developing or what I see on my computer. Most all my photos are washed out even if I use photo editing software to make adjustments prior to printing them. I've been using both the Canon Paper and Kodak's Premium paper. Can someone make some reccomendations on the exact printer settings on the S800 that results in the best color match to what I'm seeing on the computer? I consider my self very technical but I can't seem to figure out the best mix of settings.
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Summary: A great photo quality printer; read the instructions!
Review: I take a lot of fairly high res. digital photographs and, although I loved my HP printer, I was always running out of one color ink and having to replace the cartridge. I bought this printer because of the 6 separate ink tanks and the quality on plain paper has blown everyone away, who has seen my pictures. I had a few teething problems with picture quality- first with color, which was solved by un-checking one little box in the printer set up, the second with graininess in photos with a lot of fine shading. I was using Kodak Premium Picture Paper and I solved the graininess problem by going to (...). This site will tell you how to get the best results using Kodak paper. The recommended settings will surprise you!
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Summary: Not worth it
Review: I went photo printer shopping and tried out the HP's. I was not overly impressed at first, but once I saw a print on high resolution paper, I was pretty much sold. Then two of the store employees told me that the Canon S800 would impress me, as it's prints could blow any HP, Epson or Lexmark print out of the water. The only problem was, their S800 wasn't set up to print samples. I went to another store, and their S800 couldn't do samples either. I researched it online and saw many rave reviews, which said that you couldn't tell the difference between a normal photo and one printed on the S800. Combining that with the individual ink tanks, I figured I couldn't go wrong. I got the printer yesterday, and have tried many prints on it on a variety of papers. I have yet to be impressed, I am highly disappointed though. I will be returning the S800 and purchasing an HP or Epson.
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Summary: Finally, my search for a good printer is done!
Review: I'm very happy with this printer. Initially, I wanted to go with an Epson printer because I've seen the results from the 1280 (that's also a great printer) - since relatives have that I wouldn't have to do any color correction if we shared pictures. I tried the Epson photo 820... since it supposedly operates on the same technology as the 1280, I figured I could live with it being slower and louder. It was a fine printer for the price, but it had a lot of paper misfeed problems. Anyway, the S800 has really been great. It's fast (the specs I've seen are all on the mark). It's very quiet (37 db) compared with the epson printers (> 42 db) (epson 820 - 47 db). I bought the printer to print scans from slides which usually cost a lot from the store, and other photos. My only complaint is that I don't get good quality on the Kodak Premium Photo Paper (which I'd bought when I had the epson). I tried Kodak's recommended settings, which made things better, but still nowhere close to the quality I get on Canon's Photo Paper Pro. Printing onto Epson's photo paper was also very good, and only slightly less quality than the Canon paper. Without a loupe I couldn't tell a difference. I don't dock a star for this because as long as I get good prints on some reasonably priced paper it's not a problem. I was all set to return the printer after seeing the results on the Kodak paper, but I decided to try it on the Epson paper as well and that kept me from walking out the door. Although I'm not a professional photographer, it is a huge hobby of mine and I take quality very seriously. One nice thing about the S800 is that it holds A LOT more ink than the Epson. This is mainly because the difference colors are contained in their own tanks. Probably most of the inks run out at more or less the same time, so I didn't care about that feature (although the sales reps talked like this was the greatest thing in the world), but it does mean that there's a ton of ink. By the time I'd figured out what scanner/printer settings to use on the Epson, I was down to about 50% of the ink remaining. With the canon, the ink indicator is still over about 95% or more. My experience so far with photo printers has been that the output quality is generally good IF you have the right paper and the right settings. The thing that sets this printer apart for me is that it's quiet, fast enough for me, prints well on Epson papers and outstandingly well on Canon photo paper, and I won't have to replace inks anytime soon.
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Summary: Wonderful for photo processing!
Review: I've had this printer since it first came out earlier this year and have found it extremely productive processing high quality prints... especially photographs and digital images! The individual ink tanks and "printer feedback" regarding low ink, etc... have made for very uncomplicated use!
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Summary: One of the "Classic" Photo Printers
Review: My first S800 was purchased on Feb. 2002. It impressed me from the get go and every time I do a job I get the same results, "Incredible". I never get banding and the resolution & color is fantastic (I'm speaking about when I do photos, and I also always use the highest print quality settings) I liked it so much I bought a second unit the spring of 2003 for larger jobs, it was a refurbished model for $137.00 and it also prints great! I realized to get the best photos you must use the correct driver settings and paper!!! Canon paper works great and you don't need any color adjustments (except in Win.98 and ME I would set the 'brightness level' to "dark" in the 'color' tab in the 'advance dialog' on the main printer driver page, but that's it). Ilford "Galerie Smooth Gloss" works great but their "Galerie Classic Gloss" doesn't and looks lumpy in the shadow areas, similar to how the Kodak paper looks, which is terrible. All Epson papers work great with the Canon ink but the "Premium Glossy Photo Paper" seems to turn a nasty orange if you don't protect it well from UV. Same goes for Jet-Print Photo's "Professional Photo Paper", looks good but to last long you must protect it suitably from the elements. To finish up I'd just suggest that if you don't work on using the correct driver settings and paper you might as well get any printer out there because you won't get the results your looking for no matter what printer you use.
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Summary: One of the "Classic" Photo Printers
Review: My first S800 was purchased on Feb. 2002. It impressed me from the get go and every time I do a job I get the same results, "Incredible". I never get banding and the resolution & color is fantastic (I'm speaking about when I do photos, and I also always use the highest print quality settings) I liked it so much I bought a second unit the spring of 2003 for larger jobs, it was a refurbished model for $137.00 and it also prints great! I realized to get the best photos you must use the correct driver settings and paper!!! Canon paper works great and you don't need any color adjustments (except in Win.98 and ME I would set the 'brightness level' to "dark" in the 'color' tab in the 'advance dialog' on the main printer driver page, but that's it). Ilford "Galerie Smooth Gloss" works great but their "Galerie Classic Gloss" doesn't and looks lumpy in the shadow areas, similar to how the Kodak paper looks, which is terrible. All Epson papers work great with the Canon ink but the "Premium Glossy Photo Paper" seems to turn a nasty orange if you don't protect it well from UV. Same goes for Jet-Print Photo's "Professional Photo Paper", looks good but to last long you must protect it suitably from the elements. To finish up I'd just suggest that if you don't work on using the correct driver settings and paper you might as well get any printer out there because you won't get the results your looking for no matter what printer you use.
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