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Summary: Amazing printer and value
Review: On the right paper this printer produces amazing results and is very economical to use. If I would print my photos on my Hp 970 Cse, I would run out of ink already. The only draw back is that it does not support Print Image Matching technology found in competitors printers, but I hope that Canon will develop a new driver that will support it. Another thing is that you have to feed one sheet of thick photo paper at the time. Otherwise it is the best. Recomended highly!
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Summary: A Bad Overpriced Printer
Review: One star is too high a rating for the Canon S800. This is a bad, overpriced, overrated product... After reading the effusive reviews, I opted to go with the Canon S800 rather than another HP. I have to assume that the people who rated this machine so highly have never used an HP. It is slower, less quality, more cantankerous and more expensive than my old HP -- and that one is three years old. There are only two areas where it lives up to advertising: the separate color cartridges and the rear paper feed for card stock. Even there, the rear paper feed is manual, one page at a time... Before you buy, test run other printers. If you do, I doubt that you will buy the S800...
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Summary: A Bad Overpriced Printer
Review: One star is too high a rating for the Canon S800. This is a bad, overpriced, overrated product... After reading the effusive reviews, I opted to go with the Canon S800 rather than another HP. I have to assume that the people who rated this machine so highly have never used an HP. It is slower, less quality, more cantankerous and more expensive than my old HP -- and that one is three years old. There are only two areas where it lives up to advertising: the separate color cartridges and the rear paper feed for card stock. Even there, the rear paper feed is manual, one page at a time... Before you buy, test run other printers. If you do, I doubt that you will buy the S800...
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Summary: Highly Recommended Photo Printer
Review: The Canon S800 exceeded my expectations for a true photo printer. Previously, I was using an HP model that I thought gave good results. However, there was no comparison to the quality of the output of the Canon. Seeing the same prints side by side from the two printers convinced me that I made a wise purchase. The Canon 4 x 6 and 8 x 10 prints really look as if they came from film that was professionally developed and processed.I have used several different brands of paper with the S800 and I am impressed with all of them (Canon, Kodak, Jet Print). The non-Canon papers do require some driver tweaking but that proved to be not a big deal. The S800 prints relatively quickly and is one of the quietest photo printers available (good if your spouse is trying to sleep). After pressing the power button, the S800 is ready to print in only 15 seconds. (There is no long, drawn out start up routine.) I also like that the Canon has individual ink tanks. I take a lot of photos of lighthouses (and clouds) against blue skies. So, I was always running out of cyan ink first. Now, this is not an issue because I need only replace that one color more often. Recently Canon sent registered owners of their 8200 printers free replacement ink and updated drivers. This proved to me that Canon is committed to providing outstanding customer service. How can you argue about that kind of treatment? Canon printers are also not known to have nozzle clogging problems and color fade issues. I had been seriously considering another brand but I didn't want to risk a chance that my photos would fade or that I would be wasting time runing cleaning routines. This was important to me as my purchase has to last me a few years. Bottom line - this is a great printer from a great company. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Really good for it's prize!
Review: The good parts; + low price for such a high dpi
+ CMYK 6 process color, individual cartridges
+ desktop size + With the use of high quality paper, you can get photo realistic prints, with excellent color - very similar, if not exactly the same as on-screen.
I use Photoshop 6 and it didn't take me long to get the colors on the paper to match the on-screen colors and I am not one of these pro's that does screen and color-calibrating for a living! + The interface for the printer settings is quite user-friendly and easy to follow. The bad parts; - Why this printer looses as star is because of the fact that you can't print to the edge of the paper, not when using an A4 anyway..
- no bigger then A4
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Summary: Great, but.....
Review: The printer prints some of the finest photos I've ever printed. However, the printhead went out after two years; I replaced it and the new printhead only lasted about 45 days. I can't afford the printheads and labor charges, so I'm thinking of getting another (not S800) as I don't know if the printheads are a common problem.
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Summary: Fabulous, Top-Notch Photo Printer
Review: This great printer truly exceeded my expectations! It was very easy to install, works great (even with a computer that is not current generation) and produces lovely photo prints. In the 3 months since buying my S800, I have printed a large number of 4" x 6" and 8" x 10" prints, and the results are truly wonderful. Many reviewers say that "you cannot tell the difference between a print and film" (and let me say that I was never totally persuaded reading these effusions) but after using it for a few months I must admit that I am highly impressed and that my expectations were dramatically exceeded. A thorough comparison of all of the details and variables would be a very long article indeed, so I will summarize my thoughts thus: *** The quality of the photos printed by the S800 is a function of the quality of the image you send it and of the paper you use. But if the image and paper are both of high quality, my experience has been that the printout will be as good as (and sometimes noticeably better than) any film-prints produced by garden-variety film photo processors. *** The S800's print speed is nothing short of amazing. I used to own an inkjet printer that took longer to print a single page of black text than the S800 takes to print an 8" x 10" photo print. Canon has really done something right in this regard. On the other hand, the S800's print quality for documents, receipts, and other things besides photos is, in my judgment, "above average" for an inkjet printer. Just bear in mind that no inkjet printer really equals a laser printer for text. So save your laser printer for resumes, or make sure you have access to one elsewhere for the occasions when one is needed. Some tips on paper: my experience over the past 3 months has been that Canon photo paper (which is, no surprise, recommended by the manual) is extremely hard to track down even on the internet and quite expensive once you do. However, I have had excellent results with both Kodak Ultima and HP photo papers, in both matte and glossy finishes. I suggest that you save some of your time and money and use either of those papers instead.
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Summary: Fabulous, Top-Notch Photo Printer
Review: This great printer truly exceeded my expectations! It was very easy to install, works great (even with a computer that is not current generation) and produces lovely photo prints. In the 3 months since buying my S800, I have printed a large number of 4" x 6" and 8" x 10" prints, and the results are truly wonderful. Many reviewers say that "you cannot tell the difference between a print and film" (and let me say that I was never totally persuaded reading these effusions) but after using it for a few months I must admit that I am highly impressed and that my expectations were dramatically exceeded. A thorough comparison of all of the details and variables would be a very long article indeed, so I will summarize my thoughts thus: *** The quality of the photos printed by the S800 is a function of the quality of the image you send it and of the paper you use. But if the image and paper are both of high quality, my experience has been that the printout will be as good as (and sometimes noticeably better than) any film-prints produced by garden-variety film photo processors. *** The S800's print speed is nothing short of amazing. I used to own an inkjet printer that took longer to print a single page of black text than the S800 takes to print an 8" x 10" photo print. Canon has really done something right in this regard. On the other hand, the S800's print quality for documents, receipts, and other things besides photos is, in my judgment, "above average" for an inkjet printer. Just bear in mind that no inkjet printer really equals a laser printer for text. So save your laser printer for resumes, or make sure you have access to one elsewhere for the occasions when one is needed. Some tips on paper: my experience over the past 3 months has been that Canon photo paper (which is, no surprise, recommended by the manual) is extremely hard to track down even on the internet and quite expensive once you do. However, I have had excellent results with both Kodak Ultima and HP photo papers, in both matte and glossy finishes. I suggest that you save some of your time and money and use either of those papers instead.
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Summary: Photo Printer Extraordinaire
Review: This has been my first photo printer purchase. I had considered purchasing the Epson 785 EPX, but after reading several reviews, settled on the Canon. I am very impressed with the software bundle that came with the printer, especially, Canon Photo Record. Canon's driver installation is a breeze. The borderless printing is terrific and works best with Canon's own perforated photo paper. The only issue I have is that Canon's photo paper is a little expensive in comparison with the others in the market. I have had some success using other printing paper, most notably the Kodak and Jet Print Photo. My attempts at using Jet Print's matte finish paper did not pan out. In the end, some amount of tweaking in the properties window of the printer prior to printing helped to produce reasonable prints when using non-Canon photo paper. I have also used the printer for conventional printing using inkjet paper and find the results satisfactory.
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Summary: Photo Printer Extraordinaire
Review: This has been my first photo printer purchase. I had considered purchasing the Epson 785 EPX, but after reading several reviews, settled on the Canon. I am very impressed with the software bundle that came with the printer, especially, Canon Photo Record. Canon's driver installation is a breeze. The borderless printing is terrific and works best with Canon's own perforated photo paper. The only issue I have is that Canon's photo paper is a little expensive in comparison with the others in the market. I have had some success using other printing paper, most notably the Kodak and Jet Print Photo. My attempts at using Jet Print's matte finish paper did not pan out. In the end, some amount of tweaking in the properties window of the printer prior to printing helped to produce reasonable prints when using non-Canon photo paper. I have also used the printer for conventional printing using inkjet paper and find the results satisfactory.
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