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Summary: Test out your i850 AS SOON AS YOU BUY IT!!!!
Review: I had a Canon 610 for photo printing; loved it. I had a Canon 6000 for several years but it now needs a $110 repair. Used the 6000 mainly as an all purpose printer (Not photos). Bot a i850. I was impressed by the photo quality until I compared a photo of parrots with some red feathers. Compared to the HP 932C and using Photo Imaging and matte finish, the HP 932C gave a nice crisp and sharp print. The i850 was not as crisp & sharp and the colors seemed faded. (I use PhotoShop and other high quality programs & a lot of expensive equipment restoring hundreds of family photos.) When I compared a page from my album printed on the HP932C vs i850 on photo imaging matte paper, it was amazing. The HP932C won hands down. Again the print was not crisp & sharp. And I could not get a "red" from the i850. Changed the parallel cable for a new USB. It improved some. Tried the i850 on a Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium IV with different monitors and graphics cards. Same results. Disappointing. Red is probably the most difficult to print but red is an important color for photo work. Called Canon tech support. They suggested that I use Canon Photo Paper Pro since their printers like Canon paper!!! I did. Same result. Suggested I download a picture with true red. I copied the photo of "Red Car" from their Zoombrowser software which came with the i850. I have the most beautiful print of an ORANGE car on CANON PHOTO PRO paper. I thought my eyes were deceiving me! Placed an ORANGE marker pen next to photo. IT's ORANGE. Had someone else look at picture. It's an orange car. Canon suggested I bring it into a Canon Service Store. Rather than traveling 20 miles one-way, I returned it to Best Buy. Conclusion: Print the RED CAR in ZoomBrowser as a test for your i850. If it's red, you have a great printer. Maybe it's a quirk, but TEST YOUR PRINTER.
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Summary: A great all-around printer at an attractive price
Review: The reason why I decided to get the Canon i850 vs. other brands like HP and Epson is because of its low ink cost. The 4 separate ink tanks system will allow you to only replace the ink that is out, not the whole cartidge. I've had the printer for a month now and printed numerous documents and photos, but all ink cartidges remain nearly 100% full! Not to mention its superb print quality and speed!!! Now I can just print whatever I want without worrying about my pocket! You can't go wrong with the Canon i850, especially if you are concerned about ink costs.
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Summary: small; fast and good
Review: I love this thing. I can carry it in my briefcase/backpack along with my Powerbook. It is quiet. It is fast. It prints well.I guess if you think about what could be better, smaller? But how small can one get. In fact, I liked this Canon so much I bought another one for my home office. I haven't printed photos....which I guess means I haven't tried all the features. But for me, the decision was made to purchase it due to its size and previously positive reviews on speed and quality. Rocks.
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Summary: Excellent printer
Review: I wanted a printer that printed good photos, and this printer is awesome. I like it very much. It's extremely quiet, very fast, and does not take a lot of desk space. We have a laser printer for plain black/white text printing, but I did try the text printing capabilities of this printer and they are very good. Very highly recommended!
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Summary: Great Printer!
Review: I have had horrible experiences trying to get my digital pictures printed in stores around town. Either they are too dark or they are streaky. It seems as if the technology has not developed to accurately print digitial pictures. I decided to look into getting a photo-quality printer instead, and I just purchased the i850 and am very impressed. Not only is the picture quality great, but it is also very fast. The only downside is that I have tried many other companies for photo-quality paper, and have found that the more expensive Canon brand papers produce the sharpest pictures.
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Summary: Suprisingly good printer
Review: I recently bought the HP 7550 photo printer, supposedly the top of the line printer....I wasn't impressed with the photo quality nor the expensive price so I returned it. I decided to try one of the canon printers and was going to get the I950 but the reviews weren't great. The cheaper I850 however seem to get better reveiws with a much better price. The canon i850 is a great all around printer the photo quality is on par with the HP 7550 ( use good quality photo paper ). The text printing blows away the HP . I am definetly keeping this printer and suggest for anyone looking for a good all around printer this is the one!
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Summary: so-so software and you must align the print heads
Review: The printer is a day old and I must say the software is not terribly intuitive. Give it a letter grade of C. I prefer my old HP 950's software. If you want darker print in the HP you simply move a slider toward darker. Good luck in figuring out how to do this on the Canon. Also I was a bit surprised that you must manually align the printheads in the Canon, which is a minor annoyance. Its an automatic function in my very old HP. On the plus side, the print head in the Canon is easily replaced in a few seconds unlike some Epsons which require a trip back to the factory. On the other hand, you get a new print head on the HP every time you put in a new ink cartridge (they are part of the cartridge). The printer is pretty quiet but there is a snap as it loads each piece of paper. There is a quiet mode I havn't tried. The printed manual is almost as bad as the software. Replacing ink cartridges couldn't be easier. I was very concerned about the faintness of the printing when I printed the alignment pages but an actual document looked much darker. I've printed the alignment pages and the noozle test pages a number of times and they are always very faint but actual documents look fine. Seems to me a test page should print out correctly but not in the Canon's case! Another software issue. As mentioned, the printed manual isn't very good either. A number of settings aren't even discussed. This may be one very good printer but its software and manual are pretty poor. I bought it because ink costs are reportedly low. Time will tell.
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Summary: It's Not All That...
Review: Bought this product based on the recommendations from one of the computer talkshow host (will not mention name), and reviews I've read. I do have 5 mega-pixel Canon S50. If I were to print the pictures I took as the way they are, the prints are just beautiful. But once you crop to increase the object or modify the color, I get these green lines across the picture. I've wasted many photo papers just because of that. I'm bummed about that.
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Summary: Better than I hoped for
Review: I bought this after I was disappointed with the way my ink jet printer handled photos from my new digital camera. The price seemed low for a quality photo printer, but the reviews were good so I figured it was worth the risk. I am amazed by the quality of the prints I am getting with this printer. The colors are vivid and the detail is rich. In fact the prints are much better than I was getting from my old 35mm camera and better than the digital prints I was getting from professional photo printers. The Canon software is easy to use and creates better prints than the Kodak software that came with my camera. The most significant factor, though, is the quality of the photo paper. Canon Photo Paper Pro seems to be, by far, the best paper and the brilliance of the prints deteriorates markedly with lesser quality paper. Unfortunately, the paper is expensive and makes printing at home slightly more expensive than sending the pictures to Shutterfly, York or CVS. Nonetheless, this printer provides the option of quickly printing high quality pictures at home. No more waiting for pictures to come in the mail
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Summary: Quality
Review: The quality of the photos I print with this are outstanding. If you use a good photo paper you will get prints you'll think came from a lab.
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