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Summary: Only one word, WOW!!!
Review: Bought this printer after reading all the reviews on it. Now got the chance to see it myself. I can only say one word, WOW! Cannot believe the print out is from a printer, not from professional photo lab! Extremely quiet while printing and it is fast. Only took 20 minutes to set it up, including the alignment. Manual is extremely easy to follow.
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Summary: Great Printer
Review: Going from the reviews I've seen here I went and purchased this printer as an upgrade from my HP1215 Photo Printer. This thing is amazing! It really does print fast and the quality is perfect.A reviewer mentions that it doesn't even include slots for camera memory. Who cares? Its a 200 dollar printer with some excellent features for that money -speed and quality prints. In fact, that same reviewer mentions it doesn't even contain a USB cable among his 5 seperate negative posts. Show me a printer that does include the cable to connect to your PC. I may be breaking the rules by comenting on anothers reviews but when the same person has commented 5 seperate times in an attempt to drive the negative numbers up something should be done about it.
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Summary: Capable of better & cheaper results than commercial labs
Review: After shopping around for a month or so, my wife and I ended up getting the Canon i960 photo printer, and so far we're very happy with it. I bought her some prints from our digital cameras from Ritz Camera as a Christmas present, but now that we've got the photo printer, we've made fresh copies of some of the same images and the results from the Canon seem to be at least as good as the commercial prints, if not better. Plus, we have more control over how images are scaled & cropped when printing at home rather than having someone like Ritz or CVS do them for us. One of the features that convinced us to buy this printer was the fact that the inks are sold separately. My hunch is that this should make the printer cheaper to operate in the long run than a printer with multi-color ink cartridges, but only time will tell if that's actually true. From some "back of the envelope" math, it seems like it's going to be roughly as expensive to print at home than to get them made commercially (we're estimating about $.30 per print either way), but the convenience & flexibility of having our own setup should make it worthwhile. So far, we've tried running the printer with the sample Canon paper it came with, some Kodak glossy photo paper, and some mid-grade Epson photo paper. The prints with the Canon paper seem to look best so far, but the paper also seems to be one of the more expensive options available. The Epson paper looks almost as good, and it looks like we can find it much cheaper than the high end Canon stuff. The Kodak paper, on the other hand, has produced pretty disappointing results so far -- we haven't been able to get printouts that look as good as the Epson or Canon paper. Moreover, the geometry of the Kodak paper isn't as advertised: it's 6.5 x 4 sold as 6 x 4 paper; the printer is using about half of that extra length, but it's leaving a blank margin on one side of each print, and so far the supplied Canon photo software doesn't seem to be able to compensate for this. So, I would recommend this printer, but not because it's a better deal than your local CVS/Ritz/Wal-Mart/etc's photo lab. At best, you're likely to break even with commercial printing. On the other hand, you can expect to get excellent image quality that's at least on par with the commercial labs, if not better -- but try running different kinds of paper through to figure out the results you'll be happiest with: the supposedly high end Kodak paper seems to be disappointing with this printer, but the Epson paper is more than satisfactory, and it currently seems to be cheaper than the Canon paper.
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Summary: Canon i960 -excellent printer
Review: I received the Canon i960 as a gift. It produces excellent pictures. Quiet and fast. I have had good luck buying from Amazon. Also, the sample pack of Canon 4x6 glossy photo pro paper produced superb pictures. I would highly recommend this printer.
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Summary: The best printer I ever owned!
Review: I bought this printer last december, I have been using it to print all my christmas pictures. I have been using the photo paper "Ilford Printasia - Premium photo glossy paper" and the results are just amazing! The quality is better than you can hope for. I am very glad about my purchase.
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Summary: Great Product
Review: For the price, I would definitely recommend this printer. It prints a borderless 4X6 in about 30 seconds and its quality is unparalleled. As for ink consumption, I know the ink is expensive, but I've printed about 30 borderless 4X6's and the ink level hasn't budged from full. Also, the ink tanks are separate and clear so that you can purchase them one at a time as you need them and you will be able to see for yourself whether or not there is any ink left (as opposed to inferior software based ink level systems in which software counts the number of drops that have been printed and then estimates how much is left). Not only that, the ink dries almost instantly-once the paper ejects I can touch the print and not smudge it. Wonderful! One caveat, use canon photo paper (any type) unless you go with a more expensive professional type paper. Inferior paper will produce an inferior result and the sample of canon paper included with this printer will convince you of its quality. The special 4X6 tray is a time-saver and Canon should be commended on the quality of this product.
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Summary: Must have printer
Review: Purchased this printer for photo printing only. Main reason was that it has two USB ports. Utilized the high speed port to connect an iMac flat panel and the full speed port to a Windows XP computer. Installation was a breeze and had both computers up and printing in 25 minutes. I have only printed out with the borderless 4x6 pro paper that came with the printer so my review is with limited use. I have a Nikon 885 3 mega-pixel camera taking pictures on the highest quality setting. The pictures are amazing with vibrant colors. Speed to print from the XP computer is immediate while the iMac typically takes an extra 10-20 seconds to send print information. Although, I believe this is the Mac OS X problem and not the printer since it takes this long to send information to the HP all-in-one also connected. The quality of the prints and the price of the printer make this an excellent buy. Compared the same photo from this printer to one done at a decent photo lab and was hard pressed to notice differences.
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Summary: Most Excellent Printer
Review: Don't listen to the whining and moaning of the disaffected few. This is an excellent printer, and out performed the Hewlet Packard even when the Hewlet Packard representative was demonstrating her machine. Color is gorgeous, and the software installed easily.
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Summary: glad I waited this long to buy a photo printer
Review: I'm not an 'early adopter'. Didn't buy a digital camera until I was convinced the photos would rival my good old OM-1! Same with the photo printer. Anyway: The i960 looked so good in the store that it became a family Christmas present. We were all very pleased from the very first print. We don't print anything without a quick check of framing/cropping on the computer's nice, big screen. So, who cares that the printer doesn't have a memory card slot or a 2-inch LCD for editing/previewing? The supplied Easy Photo Print software is pretty easy to use and hasn't confused or disappointed us. We may never graduate to anything more sophisticated! Prints made on the cheapest Canon 'Glossy Photo Paper' have impressed everyone. On the 'Pro' paper they have even more snap. We don't seem to have used up much ink yet either... so I really won't mind buying Genuine Canon cartridges when the time comes! Yeah, the i960 resides toward the more-expensive end of the printer spectrum and it is optimized as a photo (vs. general purpose) printer. But if, like us, your goal is glorious photos you can't help but be pleased with its output. And the entertainment value of watching this 'magic' happen again and again is undeniable. Buy one!
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Summary: Canon convert
Review: My experience with my two Epson printers had made me cynical about color printers. I don't print often so I had to clean, clean and clean the print heads and often just replaced ink cartridges which were still half full. To be fair, I've only had the Canon one day so maybe I'll still be throwing things across the room over printing problems.... But set-up on the Canon was a snap. The much-feared manual alignment amounted to a mouse click. The photos produced are, to my eye at least, stunning. I wasted a lot of years fighting with Epson printers, but I think I finally got a divorce.
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