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Canon Desktop Photo i860 Inkjet Printer
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4 Star Review

Reviewed by: ahitron

Updated:01-05-06

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Strengths: Great text and photo quality, inexpensive ink, reasonably fast, convenient 4x6 photo paper holder.

Weaknesses: Sometimes takes a long time to start printing

Overall Evaluation: I bought this printer looking for solid text printing at a reasonable speed and good quality photo printing. I am not disappointed. The removable 4x6 photo try is very convenient, although on occasion it can get in the way when trying to load regular paper. The print quality is outstanding, I have never had any complaints. It print speed for plain text is impressive, although it does have an annoying habit of sometimes taking up to 30 seconds or so to start printing.
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2 Star Review

Reviewed by: leenaud

Updated:01-04-05

Duration of ownership:3 Months

Strengths: Economic, excellent quality for photo printing and documents

Weaknesses: Head needed to be replaced after 2 months

Overall Evaluation: Had high expectations, which came thru while the unit worked. No problem with paperjamming, high quality photo printing. Cost and use of ink is very reasonable.Printer has been used very moderately sofar. It's not being used in a office setting. Just for personal use.Photoprinting caused the printhead to fail. Had to be replaced. Was under warranty so there were no cost to me. However, I would not buy this product again after this early failure.
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2 Star Review

Reviewed by: soot

Updated:12-30-04

Duration of ownership:6 Months

Strengths: clear printing

Weaknesses: noisy when it printshaving trouble with paper jamming

Overall Evaluation: After owning the printer about 4 months it has started to jam. I am having an awful time with it jamming. Does anyone have any suggestions.Also, it is really noisy when it prints
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1 Star Review

Reviewed by: brucegil

Updated:11-08-04

Duration of ownership:2 Months

Strengths: Fast

Weaknesses: Paper will not feed. Paper is crumbled every time.

Overall Evaluation: After using the printer for about 2 months, it quit feeding paper through. Also, I sent Canon Support an e-mail. After two weeks, I still have not heard from them.
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5 Star Review

Reviewed by: brohlman

Updated:11-01-04

Duration of ownership:3 Months

Strengths: fast quiet excellent photo quality

Weaknesses: absolutely none

Overall Evaluation: after owning a canon BJ6000 I knew I wanted another Canon printer-this printer is so fast and so quiet it's unreal-so is the low price! extra photo ink assures high quality-and the ink is less expensive than most. Software is easy to use-I was afraid I'd never find a printer that was as good as my last Canon-but this one surpasses it!
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5 Star Review

Reviewed by: steveck

Updated:09-22-04

Duration of ownership:9 Months

Strengths: Good quality BW and Color. Cheap Ink. has a seperate black specificly for text that saves cost.

Weaknesses: can take a while for the file to begin printing

Overall Evaluation: I highly recomend this printer to the average user. It's very versitle. It prints great pictures. It can handle large text printjobs. I really like having seperate color tanks and the large test black tank is great for students. At $120 it can't be beat
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5 Star Review

Reviewed by: asb7

Updated:07-09-04

Duration of ownership:10 Months

Strengths: Easy setup and maintenance. Excellent print quality and superb photo quality. Extremely quiet and fast. Individual ink tanks.

Weaknesses: None

Overall Evaluation: This is truly the best printer I have ever owned. It is not only affordable but the maintenance is very inexpensive. I found a place on the web where I can purchase an entire set of cartridges for about $20. It is true that the ink monitoring goes from full to a warning replacement then to empty. Although it is not recommended to let an ink cartridge get empty, this printer first tells you the ink is getting low and which cartridge it is. When this happens, you usually have a fews days to replace the cartridge before it is empty, under normal printing conditions.This printer is quiet to begin with but it also has an option to be quieter on its Utility Tab under properties. 4x6 photos are a snap with the photo paper feeder accessory which comes with the printer.When I show the photos I printed from the i860, people remark how beautiful they are and cannot believe they were produced from a home printer. The added utilities that Cannon supplies via CD in the box are also excellent. There is no longer a need to buy expensive photo software. This printer with its drivers and software does it all beautifully including Panoramic shots using the stitch utility.A friend of mine scanned an old black and white photo of his parents over 40 years ago. The quality of the original photo was fair at best and the background including the subjects contained a lot of noise. I put this scanned photo through the Cannon photo print software. This software has 2 levels of noise reduction. I selected the highest level and printed the photo. My friend had tears in his eyes when he saw the excellent quality I was able to produce. The noise was virtually eliminated. The photo looked as though it was just taken.Obviously, I couldn't be more pleased with any other printer. Photo quality is not the i860's only name to fame. In my opinion, it produces excellent text as well.I have owned other printers (HP and Epson) which declined in quality as they aged. They were also more expensive to buy and their ink supplies were short and expensive. I was in need of a printer about a year or so ago and went to purchase one. I was looking at another Epson because HP is outrageously expensive. I was not considering a Canon at all, especially knowing people who owned older Canons and witnessing their slowness and fair quality. The day I went to the store was the debut of Canon's i860 and one from Epson too. Sales representatives for both manufacturers were demontrating the new printers. The Epson not only cost $50 more that the Canon but the Canon won in every aspect "heads over heals." I purchased the Canon i860 and love it.
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5 Star Review

Reviewed by: BFanning

Updated:07-05-04

Duration of ownership:7 Months

Strengths:

Weaknesses: none

Overall Evaluation: I love my i860 cannon printer. The pictures I print are very clear. This printer is very quite and fast. The reason I bought this printer is because of the 5 inks tanks. This is also my second cannon printer.
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3 Star Review

Reviewed by: rleclair

Updated:07-01-04

Duration of ownership:1 Years

Strengths: Prints with good quality, very fast, inexpensive

Weaknesses: Ink monitor drops from full to empty in one printout.

Overall Evaluation: I had been spoiled with Epsons ink monitor that dropped gradually(full, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4). I was very disappointed to see that the ink monitors read full, then after one page, they said empty. I had expected they would drop gradually. It doesn't give you much time to shop for a good price on cartridges as the printer says you will cause damage if you continue to print after the cartridges read empty.
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5 Star Review

Reviewed by: willyg00

Updated:05-16-04

Duration of ownership:4 Months

Strengths: Prints fast. Good , quality printing. Replacement ink is very reasonable.

Weaknesses: Little noisy.

Overall Evaluation: Overall this is a super printer. i'm getting another computer and another Canon i860. Fast printing at a very affordable price. This is the one you want if your kids do alot of printing.