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Summary: Dear Mr. "U R All Troglodytes"
Review: This isn't a real review, but rather tips for the reviewer mentioned above. I, too, had the same trouble. Even sent the thing in for service, etc. Still, lines! ARGH! Then, one day I took a stab, since I had photo paper to waste, considering it wasn't WORKING, and I tried printing out of a different software program. VOILA! No lines! The pix were beautiful! Something was going haywire with the printer and the Kodak software I was using -- not that the Canon tech people have any idea about that, after having spent hours on the phone with 'em. Now I just use Microsoft Picture It to print from, and it works swell. Try that. U might be surprised.
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Summary: Awesome Printer
Review: I bought this printer for my wife since we wanted to print out our digital photos. I was amazed at the quality and the low price for this printer.
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Summary: Easy enough for anyone!
Review: I got this printer because I read other Amazon.com reviews, and I liked what I read. I found the set-up instructions easy to follow and do. I am a 53-year old grandmother, a baby boomer, and child of the 60's, and a very sheltered Southern Belle. I am "challenged" by anything more complicated than "in/out" and "stop/go." But I set this printer up and printed lovely photos--even different sized ones!One thing that you must get is a Belkin F3U133-06 USB Device Cable (6 FT) (or something) to connect the printer to the computer and the photo paper. Everything else you need is included. I am just learning, but I will write again when I have progressed. The main thing to remember is have fun! I shall give it 5 stars when I feel I have advanced to that caliber.
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Summary: Best Photo Printer Out There
Review: Best photo Printer out there!!!
I have been doing research on photo printers for about 2 months now and have tried them all. What I have found is that the Canon i960 is the best photo printer out there. The i960 prints life like photos in 32 sec. I have tested HP's top of the line printer and even with the settings set to high it can NOT touch this Canon i960. The Canon i960 just rocks. It was easy to set up, and the the prints are BETTER than the photo lab. I have a Sony camera and I tried the Sony printer. Still NO comparison. The Canon is just Great!!! I also tried out all of the photo paper. I thought Kodak would be the best, but I was wrong. With the canon printer, the Canon photo paper pro is the top of the line. I Love how you have seperate ink for each color. You can just change the one that is low instead of all the colors just because one was low. I have done Research on all the printers so if you have any questions just email me at Treestine2@msn.com
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Summary: Lines!
Review: `BIG TIME HYPE (please do keep in mind, it's a $200 Printer) On first try, I needed to re-align the print head 6 times. The third print, with the supplied package of Photo Paper Pro, I get a scratch going across the bottom, like a cat has clawed across it, about 1cm (that's centimeter to you OLD STANDARD people) in size, and about 5mm (that's millimeter) wide, a scraggly little annoyance. Fine, I gave it several tries, with varying degrees of "glossiness" using Canon's setting in`` its own proprietary Easy-Photo-Print software. My iMac is calibrated, to sRGB-1966, I know my Desktop Photo will print exactly the way I want it, as long as I know what the Print settings are - yes, I am a Photoshop user. Given, there are varying degrees of BRIGHTNESS to the varieties of papers out there and none of them are correct, if, say, an Epson brightness is contrasted to Canon. So, I tried various kinds of paper by default. And given, there are varying degrees of THICKNESS to the`` paper as well, and you should take all these things into consideration. Lab quality? Not even close. I now have printed well over 30 photos, grouping them by the same photo, then by paper, then by quality settings. This is NOT Lab quality. You should NOT compare this printer to a Professional (and I mean Professional) Lab, where they will inform you, and help you, correct your photos and even teach you, advise you and move you forward with excellent information so that from then on,`` you would have become a better photographer with a better eye for colour and detail. Does the description tell you that this is a good "archival" printer? NO. This printer has so far given me nothing but "scan lines" as if I am watching TV. Yes, that's right, even on their own Canon paper, I am still seeing those lines from the ink-jet going back and forth. Did I get a lemon? I doubt it - they make far too many of these, and the consistency is about what I expected from a`` printer of this calibre - I also have a BJC-85 to take with me when I am travelling, and I've had that printer for over 3 years now and it is what it is. It is what it is. Don't expect this to be your great answer you've been looking for. You'd have to spend the $700 or more to get close to lab quality. I'm disappointed, as I have so far only printed on 4x6 paper! I can't wait to see what it's going to be like on 8x11. I am giving it a 2 - as I see this printer as not a good`` replacement to a great lab print.`
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Summary: Great photo printer
Review: I just got my i960 and am amazed at the quality of the prints. It really does a nice job with color saturation and tones. I really like this printer and would recommend it to anyone who wants a dedicated photo printer that is reasonably priced.
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Summary: I960 PHOTO PRINTER
Review: This is undoubtedly the POOREST photo printer I've ever purchased. I do not recommend anyone else buy it. The photos are not clear, true to color.
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Summary: Very Satisfied with Photo Quality
Review: This is my second Canon printer; I upgraded to the i960 after using the S520 for a year. The S520 was an excellent, all-around printer, good at both text and photos, but I wanted something optimized just for photo quality, without regard to text output. Since I've only printed photos on the i960, and not text, that's all I can comment on. On that score, it's been outstanding. The S520 was pretty good, but the colors are even truer in the i960. I've printed approximately 150-175 photos on it so far, in 4 x 6, 5 x 7, 8.5 x 11 sizes, in both color and black and white. I've had great results with Canon's Photo Paper Plus Glossy, Canon's Photo Paper Pro, as well as Epson's matte heavyweight paper, but haven't tried any other papers yet. My only complaint is that the photos sometimes come out with fine, hairline scratches on the paper - more noticeable on areas of the photo that are heavily inked. They aren't obvious when you look at the photo straight on, but if you tilt it sideways under good light, you can see them. In fairness, I recently noticed that there is an option called "Prevent Paper Abrasion" (click Properties, then Maintenance, then Custom Settings, and you'll see it), but I haven't tried that yet. The printer comes with one full set of inks (6 separate tanks - black [BCI-6BK], cyan [BCI-6C], photo cyan [BCI-6PC], yellow [BCI-6Y], magenta [BCI-6M], and photo magenta [BCI-6PM]), but no USB cable, so you'll have to supply that. Overall, I have been very pleased with this printer, and if it got stolen, hit by lightning, or otherwise removed from my service, I'd go out and buy the same thing again.
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Summary: Fantasitc photo printer
Review: We needed a color printer for mug shots at work and this one works great. Our graphics art designer suggested an expensive Epson which the boss didn't what to pay for. The main requirement was for more color cartridges meaning better photos. We purchased the Canon i960 and were blown away by the quality of the photos it printed. I decided to shop for one for home use and printed a 1 megapixel shot of a child wearing a black shirt in a colorful ball pit on both a Canon i960 and a HP photosmart 9760. These two printers both use a 6 ink system. I was interested in the HP because their 6 ink system is available on a wide range of printers, some of which are half the price of the Canon i960. With the Canon line you need to step up to the i960 or i900d to get their 6 ink color system. In both cases I used the corresponding vendors 4x6 photo paper. To my eye the Canon output had more vivid colors and a crisper image. Very fine details such as strands of hair were somewhat blurred and lost in the background of the HP photo. The ball pit mesh netting was sharper in the canon photo. My wife felt that the ball outlines were sharper on the Canon photo. The under 60 second output speed of the i960 (for 4x6) photos feels fast. I was not as frustrated with this printers speed as I have been with some others I tested. Also there are no perforated edges to tear off. The individual ink cartridges seem like a nice idea and are reasonably priced. The i960 is quieter than most of the cheaper inkjets I've used in the past. Finding Canon printer supplies in stores is a bit harder than HP supplies. I've heard a life span of 25 years for the Canon photos which is less than the 75 years claimed by HP for their photo inks.
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Summary: Beatiful pics, but with important caveat
Review: Yes, this is a fast printer that produces beautiful results. But the resulting prints are only estimated to last about 25 years, which is far shorter than conventional prints or those produced on Epson printers, which are estimated to last more than 100 years, depending on the paper used. (The tests are done by the same independent company, Wilhelm Imaging Research.) The i960, and other Canon printers, may not leave much of a photographic inheritance for future generations. If you don't care about pictures that last, this is a fine choice.
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