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Summary: Reply to Negative comments
Review: None of the Photo Printers come with a USB cable. Why? Because most are USB and Parallel compliant, so Canon, HP, Lexmark and Epson leave the choice to the consumer which cable to choose. Maybe you need 3' of USB or 10' of parallel. No sense in putting a cable you don't need in the box. The Pict-bridge cable is the cable that comes with your digital camera. The Pict-bridge port on the front of the i960 is a standard USB port (like the one on the back of most computers, type A). If your camera is Pict-bridge capable just plug it into the port with the same cable you use to download pictures to your computer. COULDN'T BE EASIER! To find out if your camera is Pict-Bridge capable do a google search for "Pict-Bridge", you will find a site that lists all the cameras with this feature(Sony, Canon, Nikon, Samsung, Olympus, Fuji to name a few).
The i960 is a great printer in my opinion. The best thing about it is that the inks are only $11 and Canon prints how many milliliters are in each container, 13ml's. How many ml's are in each of the Epson print tanks? No one knows, they don't print it on the box! Amazon should block company reps from posting here. The guy that posted the 4 negative reviews below is obviously an Epson rep and biased. I own a Canon camera and this printer and my wife and I couldn't be happier.
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Summary: WOW
Review: Pictures are amazing. I upgrading from a Epson c80 (ink eating pig) to the canon. I have printed dozen of pictures and the ink levels haven't even moved. The photo editor is really easy to use. This is a great printer. I was thinking of buyiing the 860 but since I only want to print pics this is the one to buy.
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Summary: Lab Quality Results!
Review: Excellent printer, lab quality results... be sure to have plenty of Canon Photo Paper Pro in the sizes you want and a USB cord for it. You'll WANT to print lots just to believe the quality it outputs.. very fast and quiet. I have researched this purchase very carefully and I am happy with the results. The negative reviews are unfounded.
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Summary: Photo Printing - The Next Generation
Review: Every once in a while we cycle our digital technology at home in a hand-me-down way. Every time we do this, there is an order-of-magnitude improvement in speed and/or quality, and this purchase was no exception. We logged a departure from HP with this purchase, moving from a DJ 712 to the Canon i960. I am an anti-banding freak. I select my printer by walking through Best Buy (or whatever store) and examining print samples for banding. IMHO HP used to distinguish itself by not having any. But I've grown tired of visible dots as well. I have never seen an Epson printer of any kind pass this banding test in the stores I visit. Epson sales reps - take note. Wanted to go to the 6-tank variety because I was just irritated by the $30 cost when ANY color ran out. This should be more efficient. I already have a Canon PowerShot S50 and the little CP-300 dye-sub portable. Love 'em. Was pleasantly surprised to see the i960 print one of my digital photos off the computer on 4x6 Photo Pro paper, and it looked as good as the dye-sub (except, of course, for the lack of protective layer). No visible dots, no banding. Looks like lab quality to me. I have no technical or ergonomic issues with the i960, love the speed and quality of the output. Had a great OOBE, and am looking forward to years of continued successful and professional results. It was a good purchase for me. Cheers, -- Mike
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Summary: Now now, you know I make sense
Review: `I feel for those who were made to believe this was a good printer. Do I need to go over the details again? - No supplied USB cable.
- Pictbridge? Another cable NOT supplied - and if you have a camera that's older, you can't use it. And like I explained, you're using more Power to keep the camera powered - which is actually not good for the camera anyways.
- No Card Slots, not even 1. With the Epson, you can either look at the screen on the R300, or print a nice little Index card on`` the RX500.
- The inability for the printer to print BORDERLESS photos from other files formats other than JPEGs.
- Lines on my Photos, even on their own 4x6 Pro paper with its own Ink.
- $200 for a Printer which is making people use OTHER software (WHY?) to print better, forcing you to get these other things you need - compared to Epson, which, for $179 you can get the R300 which has a Screen for reviewing pics and has the ability to print CDs, and if it's the RX500, for $250 (only`` another 50 bucks more!!!!) you get a SCANNER as well. USB cables supplied, mind you.
- Canon makes you do a lot of work to just to get it unwraped out of the box, onto your desk, and THEN, YOU have to insert the Print Head thingy - I know some of you are having problems because of the crooked way the print head went in.
- Canon's is a shoddy build, cheap plastic, and takes up more room on your desk as it sticks out front and back, because the USB cable stick out with the power cord, and in`` the front, the tray pulls out TWICE taking up that much more space. Epson RX500 has the USB cable input BUILT inside the machine, and the tray is underneath so there is no jutting out to the table (which makes no difference to me, like I explained, I print mostly panoramas on 8x23 paper).
- - which is another thing about the Canon - they give you Photostitch software, but then the printer won't accept any other paper other than the ones already programmed, even if you try to customize the`` sizes. I even tried with the 8x10 size on an 8.5x11 paper, CENTERED - compared the ability of the Canon to the Epson - Epson's is smarter because it measures from the LEFT and TOP margins, so I can go ahead and print on an 8.5x11 and then cut it on a board down to size without even thinking. With Canon, I had to work out where it would be in the center doing the old "left-right-up-down" margin settings before I even printed, so that it would land SOMEWHERE on the paper - then I had to go`` and cut 4 sides instead of 2, which is what I do now with the Epson. Please do not ATTACK me for my reviews - I am being very technical, and, if you read the "Review Guidelines" it says you shouldn't comment on other people's comments. I DID BUY IT, and TESTED IT - then returned it for a better printer within the alotted refund time period. Oh yeah I just checked - the Epson store is SOLD out of the RX500. But I am sure you can get it from somewhere else. Hey if you're happy,`` you're happy. But no need to attack me for my technical help from the field. I am doing it for everyone's benefit - you should be glad I put in this much time into explaining things that people will eventually come across anyways. And being out here in Hollywood, I had better know what the heck I am talking about, ya know?`
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Summary: The best printer in the world
Review: I am Very happy with the canon i960 because of the great pictures it prints out and the speed that it prints out. The ink for is also cheaper than Epson ink and the canon ink tanks are see through and the Epson ink Tanks are not so they may tell you that you are out of ink when you have 2or3 prints left so over all I think the Canon i960 is good buy and a very high quilty picture and it is the real best buy see ya later.
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Summary: Dear Troglodytes's Reviews
Review: This is to all the people that have read these reviews. If you notice that all of the 4 Neg reviews have been by one man "Troglodytes's Reviews" This printer is way better thatn the Epson printer. You need to try a diffrent printing software. If anything you should only diss on Canons software not the printer.
Thanks
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Summary: NO CARD SLOTS and don't worry about INKS (explanation below)
Review: `The Epson RX500 has card slots as well!!!!!! Besides - using Pictbridge means you have to get that CABLE, again! And what if you own a Camera that does not have that function? On the Epson, I can insert a card, print out an INDEX real quick, choose which one I want to print from the thumbnails, and go ahead and print - for the INDEX I would use a regular paper, of course! Then, on top of that, on the Canon, you have to keep your camera POWERED the whole time you're browsing! WASTE of energy,`` I should think, and sapping your battery if you do it that way. I would not worry about the INK lasting you up to 100 years and all that for OUR private pictures and such - if one was to pay thousands of dollars for a nice photo by a famous photographer, then, I would want it to last as long as possible! But: Faded photos have a cool artistic quality of their own, wouldn't you say? And: So if my photos I give as gifts, or sell them to people for less than $100 (combined with the`` costs of the frames and setting that I do myself) last around 30 years - I'd say the enjoyment of the photos has gone well past the costs behind them, so the worth factor should be beyond your wildest dreams! Then, if the Photographer can provide you with no more of the same picture - well, you can always try to restore the one you've got 30 years from now with the technologies of that time (which should be ABSOLUTELY mind-boggling), if you're still alive or care a lot about the picture - or`` throw the picture away, but use the frame for your own or give the frame to someone!!! Or hand the picture and have it restored by someone else!!!! And did I mention moisture? Depending on WHERE you live, the inks have varying degrees of stability, obviously. It's like Stamps - I have a lot of stamps I've collected over the years - living in Southern California has been a blessing - because there is NEVER a huge fluctuation in HUMIDITY - so the prints do not have to go through a change in`` the chemical compositions year to year - you should see some of the stamps I have from 25 years ago, and some American ones from 150 years ago - absolutely perfect, as if they were printed today. You have to think about this moisture factor too, when you read people's reviews and from where they are writing. And just in a quick reply to you about using OTHER software, Sir, or Madam - this is a Canon printer, and you're already talking about using some OTHER software to print better? WHY?`` Makes no sense to me, what you suggest. It should not have such problems with its own stuff. And what stuff do they give ya, really? No cable, taking off all those orange tapes, insert the print head yourself (worrying whether it went in properly or not), no card slots, and making YOU use your camera's powers and tiny little LCD to go through your pictures one-by-one, instead of being able to power down, take out the card and into the slot, insert, print Index, choose quickly from the list, and`` print. $200 is a TOTAL ripoff! If you've had it for less than the alotted refund time from your establishment where you purchased it - return it - then get the Epson. I only wish I could give this thing a ZERO star. Canon should GIVE these away with their cameras. It's really embarassing, when you think about it. And remember - I do not work for Epson nor am I sponsored by them - I actually bought the Canon 5 days ago, ya know - did tests all night, and returned the awful machine.
`` And did I mention I can SCAN with the RX500 too? I shaved off $150 bucks from the separate printer-and-scanner situaiton I was contemplating: and as far as resolution goes - scanning from the Negative is never a GREAT thing, but there are wonderful scanners out there (for THOUSANDS of dollars, for PRO applications!!!!) but for my own thing? I can scan the Neg, and if the resolution of this scanner seems low - well I can print a 4x6 or even a 8x11 and RE-SCAN that!!!!! So I can get a BIGGER`` File out of it - but then I can't print those on this Prnter anyways - I would take those LARGE files and have the LAB print it, you see? Boy now let me tell you all the things I have figured out in the last year...... hahaha`
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Summary: I forgot about the "lack of cable"
Review: `Why does one have to BUY a USB cable for this thing? Not only that, you actually have to INSERT the print head thingy, and tear off ALL of those ORANGE tapes! Easy set-up? Nah - I was nerve racked! I thought I would break the thing if I touched it wrong! I am still in fear of it..... how did it survive the shipping, I wonder! I got the Epson RX500 instead. Took it our of the box, unwrapped the plastic, plonked it on my desk, attached the PROVIDED USB cable to the Mac, then the power cord,`` inserted ink, CD, and voila! I think I shaved off around 15 minutes compared to the Canon's way. All those tapes - also shows you that the Canon is NOT built very well. The Epson had not such tapes! It even has a locking mechanism for the scanner!!!! The Print head being separate, and making YOU install it may seem like a smart idea - cos if they think it's the Print head, you just send that part in - but you still can't print, can ya? So what if it ends up being something else? You`` send the whole thing in anways - so you're making 2 trips. I don't get it. Making you do all the work - that's supposed to save them production money at the factory - and save you money as well - but then all that time wasted with the orange tape - and it still costs $200? The RX500 costs only $250! And it's got a scanner! And prints better without any lines at all, with better inks!!!!`
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Summary: Please, read my review again!
Review: `I wrote saying that I shoot LARGE panoramas. It's easy enough on ANY printer to print anything on 8x11 and paper sizes below that - but, with Canon's proprietary software called "Easy-Photo Print" the soft will not read TIFFs. Then, I go over to ImageBrowser, which reads TIFFs alright - but then it will NOT let you print BORDERLESS anything! It keeps saying "The maximum size allowed is: ......" and you have to squeeze it down! Fine, I do that and use a cutting board, but why should I`` have to? It says BORDERLESS printing on the manuals and packaging, dunnit? So what is the point of cleaning my picture in some App, saving it at the best quality it can be and then not be able to print them borderless? I had to actually take an extra step and save them as JPEGs. Cos that's all it would read. And I did clean the heads multiple times - and it's rather disappointing that I still see scan lines even on their own 4x6 Pro paper after 4 days! The ink does not "settle down" into`` the paper at all, like the Epson's would, even if you used their Durabrite inks, which is a tougher ink in composition than their regular Dye-based stuff due to its water-proof content. For $200 you get a printer that won't print as promised - AND! It will not let you "Customize" paper sizes, either - I tried to print on Epson Panoramic paper, which is 8.3x24 - it just will not let me - it kept starting the print halfway across the actual picture - god knows how many sheets I wasted! And`` this is printing through its own software, as well as many many others, including Photostitch Viewer! Which makes no sense, of course, because then why do you need to offer the ability to stitch huge pans? I don't get it, Canon, please explain it to me. Is it the Mac Print Center in OS X? I don't think so - cos I can customize with an Epson. To test, I cut 8x11 in half and see how that went - see for yourself, eh? Try cutting the 8.3x24 into 4.15x24, or even down to 14 or 15 inches and see how`` THAT works on the Canon. So, for $250, I can get a perfect Epson Scanner/Printer in its RX500 - to which I switched - the Scanner is just enough for me to do my kind of printing - I'm not Stephen Johnson, ya know - I don't need to scan anything even remotely close to 1440 DPI or above, and, at the most not (as most of us don't even print) higher than 300 - and may be 600, if you're a little more finicky about detail - and you know that most people can't tell the difference between them two,`` right? The RX500 is perfect so far - and I have not had to clean or re-align the heads AT ALL. I've printed 7 pans at 8.3x24 without a single line or dot mistake, and around 20 or so 8x11s at its "ColourLife Photo Paper" setting which is its highest setting and the results are marvelous. The inks are Dye-based which means if you kept the prints out of the direct light, it will last probably around 30 years, more if kept in a nice even light the whole time. And I've been testing it on`` various paper - Kodak is the worst. Too noisy. Then, the Epson's CD has PhotoImpression 5 for Mac, and a brilliant little software which combines scanning into paper, email, CD, or file, at various resolutions. It allows for any sort of paper size customization (up to its 11" width - although for odd sizes it's smarter to just let it print somewhere on the paper and then cutting it, which is what the framing shops do anyways) as long as you know how much border (or not at all) that you're`` going to need for the frames...... Overall, very disappointed and saddened with Canon. For want of machines that let you mickey-mouse with customizations a little more in this technological world, the machine's quality is mickey-mouse, and compared to Epson, where do you see Canon's Photo quality in Pro labs and Pro photographers' shacks anyways? Just goto Wilhelm Research and you'll see what I mean. Even the plastic quality sucks compared to the Epson, which is stronger and tougher, and`` does not take any more space on the desk - it goes taller! How smart is that? It's smart, because the front and back ends do not STICK out to bother you - kind of like some Office Copiers, the printed paper comes out underrneath the machine, saving me that much more space across the desk! Sorry but I can't give this Canon thing any stars at all - but I have to, so it gets a 1. It should be a $100 printer. And I am Japanese, who started out with Canons way back when, when the first Compact`` Point and Shoots came out that my parents owned...... Just over the last 1 year, Epson has improved 10 fold - I will get back to you in another year, to let you know how mine is doing - I woud love to hear how yours is doing then as well - so we can compare the hours and time spent for every dollar these things are worth - cos I'm scanning now at the same time, too, ya know. Cheerio`
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