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Summary: Great printer and cheaper to operate
Review: This Canon BJS-8200 is an excellent printer with lots of nice features than other popular brands.Pro: 1) most importantly, it prints excellent quality pictures 2) 6 separate ink tanks really make the operation cheaper, and it consumes very little ink. 3) the see-through ink tank is also a good idea, you know which color has consumed most so you can purchase a spare in advance. 4) better resolution, 1200x1200 dpi (1.44 dots/sq-inch), in comparison to 1440x720 dpi (1.0368 dots/sq-inch) in others 5) with both parallel and USB connection is a plus Con: 1) maybe a little slow in high quality print mode, but not by alot 2) If I just print 4"x6" pictures, I have to waste all the other area of 8"x11" papers because the software that comes with the printer does not let you print multiple pictures on one sheet of paper. High quality photo paper is still expensive - althought the price has came down alot recently, so I want to layout multiple pictures of different sizes on one sheet of paper to be printed (I heard HP printer comes with software to let you layout the pictures on a 8"x11" paper).
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Summary: cartridge and paper buying difficulties
Review: This is a great printer, but I am having a hard time buying paper or ink cartridges other than on the web. At say, Circuit City or Office Max, almost all of the paper is for ink jets. The only Canon paper I have seen is the Canon Glossy Photo Paper, which is OK, but not as good as Photo Paper Pro. I did find BCI-5 ink cartridges at Circuit City, but these are discontinued and there were no BCI-6s in sight.
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Summary: cartridge and paper buying difficulties
Review: This is a great printer, but I am having a hard time buying paper or ink cartridges other than on the web. At say, Circuit City or Office Max, almost all of the paper is for ink jets. The only Canon paper I have seen is the Canon Glossy Photo Paper, which is OK, but not as good as Photo Paper Pro. I did find BCI-5 ink cartridges at Circuit City, but these are discontinued and there were no BCI-6s in sight.
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Summary: Photo quality... almost
Review: This printer is excellent. I am using it with windows 2000 (for which the setup is a little messy and none of the distributed software installs) and a Canon S100. I use ULead's PhotoExplorer 6.0 (freeware) for printing 4 pics on a 8x11. The print depends heavily on the paper being used; with the best quality print being gained from the Canon Photo Pro paper that comes with the printer. The print is indistinguishable from a photo ! Especially if you do some software trickery of resampling the image to a higher resolution. One noticeable problem is that the pictures are a little washed out. The Photo Optimizer setting makes the picture a little darker (puts more black) and gives the illusion of greater detail. The printer is also very slow ! But that doesnt really bother me. Otherwise the printer is VERY economical to run especially with Best Buy's buy 2 cartridges get 3rd free !
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