Canon S820 PHOTO PRINTER 1PPM/PHOTO 2400X1200 DPI 80KB (Canon-6859A001)

Canon S820 Photo Printer

S820 PHOTO PRINTER 1PPM/PHOTO 2400X1200 DPI 80KB (Canon-6859A001) Review, by Dan Littman January 24, 2003

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• Reviewed by: rdp49ers

  Strengths: Nice color prints look as good as photo shops

  Weaknesses: You must no you have to use canon paper for prints to look good

  Overall: I bought mine new off the web for 100.00 best buy I have yet..Like I said if you use other paper that is not canon paper the prints look bad. I thought I had a bad printer till I put a sheet of canon paper in the printer.

• Reviewed by: JSwinney

  Strengths: Professional quality photos, fast too! 6 tanks make waste almost zero.

  Weaknesses: Canon riggs their photo ink to work only on Canon paper. A little slow on normal every-day printing.

  Overall: Amazing! You cannot tell the differnce with it's pictures and a 35mm camera. It's also suprisingly fast on photo printing. I also have the Canon Power Shot S200; they make an amazing combo! If you want to use other brands of paper, choose Custom print quality and then click advanced, move the slider all the way to the highest quality. It goes slow, but you can use other brands of paper that way.

• Reviewed by: Gahawn

  Strengths: Outstanding photo quality. Great full bleed photo prints. Inexpensive individual inks.

  Weaknesses: None that I've found.

  Overall: This is by far the best printer for the price. Consumer Reports rates it best for durability and color reproduction and after seeing the photos, I believe them. If you already have a digital camera, this is the printer to buy. If you don't have a camera, get the Canon PowerShot series since it uses print technology that exactly matches the color to the photo. Printing is fast considering how much detail is in the pictures. Individual ink cartridges make ink replacement much more cost effective than competitors.

• Reviewed by: nickfree

  Strengths: Print quality, cost of consumables, low noise, attractive.

  Weaknesses: Poor print quality *only* in draft mode with plain paper. Somewhat slow.

  Overall: Buy it. As a professional graphic designer who uses $10K+ proofers on a regular basis I don't expect much from a cheapie home printer, but this thing delivers. If you use the hi-res paper from canon ($10/100pages)you can get stunning quality affordably. Bleed printing is nice too. Black and white only looks good on plain paper if you set it to the highest quality mode which slows it down to a painful pace. (hope you don't need to print more than 10 pgs this way!) The best thing is the cost of consumables. Each ink tank color is seperate to start with, then when you replace a cartridge, it's as low as $5/color. Eat that HP. Never again will I contibute to the excessive gouging HP does with their cartridges. HP's cost around $50 for both cartridges and only last a short time. If you print color pages regularly, you could be in for an expensive suprise.

• Reviewed by: jrh_cdh1993

  Strengths: $99 after rebate! Six ink tank save a bundle on ink refills. Great letter size pictures from both a 2.1mp and 3.1mp camreas. Setup was a breeze, was printing off of internet in no time.

  Weaknesses: Louder than I excepted.

  Overall: I got my S820 for Christmas for my family. I did several months of research both here at PC WORLD and reading CONSUMERS REPORTS. Cost was a major factor because we also just got a new DELL computer, and a digital camera. I decided on the S820 after seeing pictures printed off of it and several HPs, and EPSONS. I couldn't tell the differance at 8 by 10 sizes! The S820 is an excellant black and white picture printer. I've restored several 50's and 40's pictures of family and they were outstanding. The S820 works well with MICROSOFT IMIAGING PRO, my sofware of choice. I know its taboo, but I use a refill kit for photoprinters and have refilled all of my colors at leaste three times each. And I'm only half way through the ink supply! I figured it was worth the risk. I would have paid $84 for a complete refill of ink at a local store. I paid $17 for the whole refill kit! The S820 is cheap enough to buy again if I messed it up. I've went through about 1500 pages of print for our unions newsletter, and 138 letter size photos for my mothers high school reunion! The S820 hasn't missed a lick.