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Summary: Exceeded Expectations
Review: I have heard comments about banding. Under close examination it's process is clean and sharp. I see no banding at all. I have compared a prize 35 mm film photo scanned on my Nikon 4000 ED 35mm film scanner with the same print by a professional photo lab on Kodak exhibition gloss. They are 99% identical. If one has a fine digital file you will be be very pleased... It is super fast and the print heads are user replaceable in case of a clog! ...I conducted a test on Canon Photo+glossy and Canon inks.
3 weeks in the morinig sun and 3 weeks in the afternoon sun - direct sunlight. To the casual look no fading at all - a very critical look 1-2 % loss. This is very impressive. Even then one has to be very critical under lighted magnification. I have heard of claims of fading - they must be using non canon related supplies. So Canon's claims of 25 years seem very realistic and then some. Update some months later severe fading on black and almost black images including dark blues. This is with Canon ink and their finest paper. So disappointing! This was in a normal home environmemt!
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Summary: Trust me
Review: I have three working printers in my office. epson 2000p, hp photo1100, and now this canon i9100. This canon is half the cost of the epson and it blows it away. The reviews are accurate it is a perfect printer. I have not had one misprint yet. The epson only gets the color right about half the time.The hp was fine for regular print jobs, but the resolution on my last 13x19 print was unreal.separate ink tanks are a bit of a pain, but they save you money in the long run.
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Summary: Great pictures, high cost ink, limited printer life
Review: I have used the S9000 for three years, mainly to print 11x17 drawings. It has been a flawless printer, but today I purchase another brand. I am so mad I could spit!
Apparently the Canon products have a spent ink container that cannot be self serviced. There isn't a sensor to indicate that it is filled, the printer just stops working after a given time period or set number of copies. I have tried the internet codes to reset the printer, but to no avail.
The local Canon service center wants $100 to reset the codes. Add to the fact that a complete Canon ink refill is about $90 and this printer is too expensive to keep.
Whatever marketing genius came up with this plan to get more money from their client base has lost my loyalty and business forever.
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Summary: This printer is like having a photo processing lab
Review: I needed a good printer for my business to print brochures and photo postcards. I received it today and printed a couple of family pictures I took with my Canon Powershot S20 3.3 Megapixel digital camera on a piece of the Canon Photo Paper Pro 4"x6" (5 sheets are included with the printer) to test the quality. I can truly say that the picture quality using this combo was better than labwork. The colors were more vibrant without the slightest hint of pixels anywhere. My jaw dropped to the floor when I saw this beautiful photo print in less than 30 seconds. This printer, I am convinced, is the best you can buy. It does borderless printing in all sizes... Even 13x19! Prints on other papers provided good results but not as stunning as the combo used above. I printed a borderless photo on a piece of regular 8 1/2x11 paper and it looked great! This printer is truly a marvel and the speed is unmatched with the quality of the prints that rival and surpass professional photo labs. The Canon paper costs a few cents more but is well worth it. Make sure you get Canon Photo Paper Pro and not just the Photo Paper Plus. Ink use is minimal. I printed 5 4x6" photos, 3 5x7" photos and 3 8 1/2x11" photos and the ink level did not go down. I bought mock-up ink carts off of Ebay that cost $10.95 for all 6 carts! Truly, you cannot go wrong with this printer.
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Summary: High Quality Guaranteed
Review: I picked up this printer to print 11x17 and the occasional 13x19 photo. I've owned a Canon back in 1997, but have been using Epson printers since. Now I'm switching back to Canon for good. This printer is flat out amazing. The print quality is fantastic, as is the design and quality feel of the actual product. The materials and colors are nice, and not cheap and loud like Epson printers. My other Epson is a photo 820 which was only [$$] but a fortune for ink, and Epson never did finish the drivers for Mac OSX. It was advertised that it could do borderless printing, but it would only do it in OS9 which nobody uses anymore. The Canon prints borderless 13x19 prints in OSX and they're brilliant. Epson's are nice printers, and I think they had the edge for a few years but Canon has clearly caught up. I'm surprised how fast and quiet this printer is, but I guess that's what you get for [$$]. It's worth it though. I am a graphic designer with a meticulous eye for detail -- trust me, this is a good product.
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Summary: Junk
Review: I purchased the i9100 after my old hp died. I searched the web
read reviews and everything looking for the best printer, not considering cost. I thought this was it, but not so, it was, in my opinion junk. MY old hp that cost 130 dollars printed circles around this thing. It must be just this one, I can't believe a 500 dollar printer prints like this. I'm returning this one and ordering a new one just to see if I got a bad one. I call tech support went through the stuff ......no good, tryed everything dumb and not so dumb blotchie and faded color not even useable let along state of the art.
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Summary: Not as good a cheaper Canon printers
Review: I purchased this printer as a wide-format replacement for my Canon i850. I assumed that because this was a high-end printer, its print quality would at least equal that of the i850. This is not the case. The i850 has a 2pL printer droplet size, whereas this printer has a 4pL droplet size. The difference is noticible to the naked eye from normal viewing distance. Text printed on the i9100 is heavier and more ragged than text printed on the i850. Photos printed on the i9100 have more abrupt tonal transitions than photos printed on the i850, despite the i9100's having 2 extra ink colors to work with. Closer inspection reveals a much more pronounced dither pattern on the i9100's prints. Ink consumption seems much greater with this printer than with the i850. I've made only a handful of test prints and I'm already getting warnings from the status monitor that three of the ink tanks are almost empty. This printer is a lot slower than the i850. The only advantage I can see (aside from the obvious ability to make larger prints) is that the BCI-6BK black ink used by this printer is less susceptible to smearing than the BCI-3eBK black ink used by the i850. If you are looking for a good photo printer and don't need wide format, I'd recommend the i960, which is a 2pL, 6-color printer. If you need wide format, wait for the new i9900 (a 2pL, 8-color wide-format printer announced in February).
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Summary: Totally Amazed and Satisfied
Review: I shopped for a month - on the Internet and at local stores - before deciding to buy my Canon i9100 from Amazon.com. An article by a professional photographer in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution recommended the Canon i960, saying he couldn't tell the difference between his printouts and the work done by photo labs. I would have bought the i960 (at half the price of the i9100) but wanted to be able to create borderless 13x19 prints. So far I've printed at least one picture of every size available, from 3x5 to 13x19, all borderless, from both my Olympus digital and 35mm cameras, and I'm still amazed at what I see. And Amazon.com delivered it two weeks earlier than I expected!
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Summary: Best Printer I've Had
Review: I've been interested in digital photography for the past couple years. I got tired of my old inkjet printer not being able to print borderless prints. So I went all out and bought this printer. This printer prints borderless 4x6, 8.5x11, 13x19, etc.. prints that are absolutely beautiful. The printer was so easy to set up. It works well with MacOS X. The printer looks good too, I like the grayish color. The printer isn't too big either. I feel like this printer lets me print photos that look better than one-hour photo labs. If you get this printer you will never have to get pictures developed, you can do it yourself with this printer.
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Summary: Not for idiots--everyone else, this is awesome!
Review: I've used this printer for home use and it is simply stunning...I bought it to print true "photographic" quality prints and it comes through in spades. At the same time I purchased a Canon EOS Digital Rebel. It is amazing to capture 6 Mega-pixel images and then be able to print them in poster size.
The title of my review refers to those who have submitted bad reviews...those are certainly not indicative of the quality of this product...only the inadequacy of the user. (Well OK, I will give a pass to those Mac users who may have had issues with compatibility...on that I cannot comment). But some of the other reviews...one is not even for this printer (instead he reviews an old S3000 printer) another can't find paper (hello??? McFly! How about search Amazon Electronics on the term "13x19 paper"....you'll have about 50 choices). 'Nuff said...this printer rocks.
And I, like many others, had always been an HP or Epson purchaser in the past...I couldn't be more pleased with my choice.
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