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Summary: We're THRILLED with this printer
Review: We have had our Canon i850 for a couple weeks now, and we couldn't be happier with it! It was a snap to install, and the quality of the photos and graphics are everything we had hoped for. And for this price it seems like a real bargain.
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Summary: Much better than HP!
Review: I orginally bought an HP...kept jamming so I took it back. The clerk at Best Buy recommeded the Canon i850, and I'm glad he did! The photo quality is excellent, you cannot distinguish from a lab! Also prints very fast for text or photos. I think this printer would be very hard to beat for the price! Fantastic.
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Summary: i850 is an excellent general purpose-go with i950 for photos
Review: Bottomline:
If you want a photo printer go with the i950
If you want a great all-round printer go with the i850.
I owned both the i850 and i950, with the i850 first. The i850 is an great all-round printer printing fast text and photos. Using the Canon photo paper images look great, but simply lack the detail the i950 can provide with 6 inks and almost twice the nozzles and special photo inks. The extra nozzles not only make printing faster (at least for photos) but allow for more detail.On a picture, printed from Photoshop 6.0, that contained lots of details and color, but specifically a tree with multi-colored (shades) of bark - on the i850 the tree looked good with good detail, but on the i950 the tree came to life, was sharper, with more tree/bark detail and color variations becoming visible. There was no question, the i950 was better, noticably for photos. On mixed media (web page with graphics) the i950 and i850 were the same, but for some reason, the i850 was noticably faster. You get a larger black-ink cartridge w/ the i850 presumably favoring its intended role as a excellent all-round printer. If price is an issue, the i850 is the printer for you ... If photo quality is the most important, then the i950 is for you ... Can't make up your mind? Go with the i950, the extra money is worth the results.
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Summary: Great printer, Great shipping,All is well
Review: Everything was nice and easy. Shipping was about 7 days early. It arrived before the projected ship date.
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Summary: Great Printer
Review: The printer was easy to set up running Windows XP family edition. The printer works flawlessly. The print quality is great and the Photo print quality is even better. I don't no how you could find a better printer for home use. The photo prints of my grand kids are beautiful and I've been printing a lot of photo's in the last 3 month's and still have ink!!! I would have been out by now on my old HP. Thanks Canon.
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Summary: I want to completent my previous review (see above)
Review: Today I ran another EXTREME test: printed out photograph on photo paper, and immediately after printing, opened water in the bathroom and washed picture while rubbing it with hands, and, oh miricle, picture didn't get washed away. In fact, there was no discoloration of ink bleeding whatsoever!!! The paper gets wet, but picture stays on, as clear as before!!! You know what this means: you can print bumber stickers, posters and more!!!
Way to go, Canon! This printer is best buy I ever made!
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Summary: Cheap, super-fast, super-quiet, fantastic print quality
Review: * Very fast: prints 4x6 maximum resolution photo in 15 seconds
* Absolutely silent: I couldn't tell if it is actually printing when I saw photographs pop up of it one by one.
* Packed with 150MB of software; image quality and effects are implemented on the driver level, so you can do antialiasing and dithering and more from the print dialog.
* Borderless printing on any paper.
I ran several tests:
1. Print 1.2MP (Kodak photo CD) borderless photo on glossy paper.
Fantastic! It was picture of waterfall in rain forest from Hawaii. I could see every leaf, every drop of water. About 15 seconds to print it. I showd it to several people and everybody said the print out is much more vivid then picture that came from Target photoshop, and everyone said printout's quality is better then Target's. And that's from 1.2MP jpeg!
2. Print same photo on plain paper zoomed to full page with normal quality. About 10 seconds to print it; without anti-aliasing turned on in the driver, it came out OK, but much better then I expected. Picture looked even better on paper then on screen of monitor.
3. Print 20 pages of text with different fonts. Excellent!!! The letters look so sharp and crisp, no pixelation at all. All 20 pages came out in less then minute! That's faster then my laser printer (600dpi) and must better quality! Furthermore, letters looked much smoother then on laser prin out.
4. Printed somephotos from digital still camera built into my camcoder. It has less then 1MP resolution. Even without antialising picture looked OK, and with a.a. it looked almost as good as real; camcoder uses better compression for images, so they loose quality and look kinda discolored on the monitor screen, but printouts looked much more colorful because driver took care of it...
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Summary: Not a multi-use printer
Review: I am disappointed. Having read many reviews, including MacWorld's, I expected this one printer would replace my current 6 year old B+W laser printer (a wonderful Apple LaserWriter Select 360), and my (2 year old) color inkjet printer (an HP DeskJet 970 CXi with ok text and poor photo quality printing). Not so! Here's the good news. Print quality for B+W text -- which is all I've tested so far -- is quite good on the Canon -- no complaints at all. Paper loading is easy and the footprint of the machine is reaonably small. However, print speed for a page of B+W text is excruciatingly slow -- just one and a half PPM -- using a standard USB (not USB-2) cable (my 2 year old current computer does not support USB-2). My old inkjet was MUCH faster using the same computer and cable. The Canon is also much noisier than a laser printer, and noticeably noisier than the HP inkject -- I cannot talk on the phone while sitting at my desk, next to the printer, while it is printing. (I do not understand why other reviewers marvel at how quiet this printer is! It is quiet when not printing -- which was not true of my laserwriter, but is true of most inkjets these days.) Moreover, the driver available for OS X is lacking an essential option, which Canon tells me is available for Windows. Since this printer prints face up, multi-page documents need to be printed in reverse order unless you like shuffling pages. Reverse printing is a pain always -- if you made a mistake at the start of the document, you won't catch it until the entire document has printed-- but with the Canon, reverse printing is simply not available!... There is no support for this option unless the particular application you are using offers this option, which then needs to be selected for each separate document, not through the standard Canon print dialog box (which appears when you hit "print"), but through the program's own preferences or print options. Printing thus becomes a chore requiring several steps. Many apps, such as Internet Explorer, Acrobat Reader and Excel, simply do not offer this option. I will be returning this printer because I am unwilling to use a printer that does not offer this essential driver feature. Another complaint -- because there is no output drawer or guide, when printing long documents, the papers tend to flow all over the place, some of them ending up on the floor, some half way across tthe desk, others piled right at the base of the printer. To my mind, since this printer cannot replace a text-only printer, I might as well buy a photo-only printer and get the best photo print quality available. When I purchased this printer, I accepted that it would have very good but less than optimal photo print quality -- in exchange for which I would also get very good but less than optimal text print quality. That tradeoff is not acceptable when text printing is so difficult.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: After researching photo printers priced 100-300 $, i decided to purchase the I850 and all I can say is WOW! Printed out a photo that looks like it came from the photoshop(my wife said it looks even better). I for one am very happy with it and would highly recommend it.
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Summary: best printer so far
Review: We have had two epson printers and a lexmark the epsons were horrendous they made so made so much noise you would have thought it was printing out the Gutenberg bible plus the quality was poor.The lexmark was better but the ink was not cheap.The canon is the most expensive printer the others either came with the computer or were under ... . In any event the Canon is fast and so far everything looks great.My only gripe is I want to buy a Canon digital camera(...) and there is no tie in whatsoever not even a promotion on photo paper.You would think that if buying one canon product makes you want another there would be some incentive no matter how small.
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