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  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: mikesamora

    Updated:06-12-05

    Duration of ownership:7 Days

    Strengths: Exellent photo print quality.

    Weaknesses: A bit bulky -- takes up more room than my old printer.

    Overall Evaluation: I bought this printer at a friend's urging and found it to live up to its hype. Its printed photos are much better than my old printer's. An excellent choice for someone seeking an affordable family photo printer.

  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: Lotzadolls

    Updated:05-18-05

    Duration of ownership:1 Weeks

    Strengths: Brillant colors, quiet, and the printer itself takes up far less space than my previous S9000.

    Weaknesses: The Cannon ink cartridges are expensive. But ONLY use the recommended Cannon ink. I ruined my expensive S9000 with supposed compatible ink. Don't be lured by cheap prices.

    Overall Evaluation: Colors are brilliant, the printer is easy to use and this printer has more color cartridges, so the colors are superior to other printers. I am not very saavy when it comes to reading instructions, but these were a breeze to follow. I also like the feature of being able to have two type of paper loaded and ready to go.

  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: JimChris

    Updated:03-24-05

    Duration of ownership:5 Days

    Strengths: Has both a sheet feeder and a cassette tray capable of holding both letter size paper and 4x6 photo paper, selected by a front panel switch. Automatic Duplex printing from either tray.

    Weaknesses: Had to contact Canon to learn how to print a test page. Test page doesn't show accurate color capability of printer.

    Overall Evaluation: The Canon iP8500 prints color photos exactly as I see them on my Monitor. This was not the case with my previous HP Deskjet. I print a 4x6 color photo from my JASC Photo Album 5 software in 35 seconds using the high speed USB connection. I like being able to keep letter size paper in the cassette tray and using the sheet feeder for photo paper and selecting the trays via the front panel switch. I like the automatic preview option prior to sending a photo to the printer. I also like the automatic duplex printing whenever there's more than one page to print - this saves paper and file space! Last, but not least, having 8 individual ink cartridges saves money by replacing only the one that's empty - Canon's software alerts you to this. Canon has really done their homework on this printer!

  • Overall Rating
    4 stars 4 Star Review
    Reviewed by: zeusizloose_1105468406

    Updated:01-12-05

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: extremly high quality prints. Prints a 4 x6 in less than 25 seconds. Easy to put paper in either the tray or feeder.

    Weaknesses: The only downside is that you cannot connect your compact flash directly to your printer. Even lower priced printers offer this. Also no LCD screen.

    Overall Evaluation: overall a very good printer. Very happy with the quality of the 4 x 6's and the one 8x10 I've printed. bought mine through buydig.com for 310.00 prints much better on the Canon photo pro paper. You can find this on the web in a 75 pack for 23.00 shipping included. (at databazaar.com)

  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: metsfanforever

    Updated:01-06-05

    Duration of ownership:3 Days

    Strengths: 8 color cartridge, 2 paper trays one for photos and one for regular paper. awsome color and detail.

    Weaknesses: can't find one yet

    Overall Evaluation: cannon is one of the best printers out there on the market. it has an awsome 8 color cartridge. this helps with the expence of buying inch because you only have to buy the ink for one color instead of one color running out and you have to replace all colors. that is a great feature.

  • Overall Rating
    4 stars 4 Star Review
    Reviewed by: skiorules

    Updated:12-16-04

    Duration of ownership:2 Weeks

    Strengths: fast quality prints, better color in prints due to 8 different color ink tanks

    Weaknesses: none that i have found. maybe the limit of only 8X10 prints.

    Overall Evaluation: For the price I felt this printer would work well with my everyday photos that I take. And now after having it for a couple weeks it has met my expectation for quality that i was looking for in my prints. It is also nice because i can keep it on a small shelf near my computer since it isnt big and bulky like some other photo printers i looked at. I would definately recommend this to anyone who like to print out their own pictures.

  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: chrismsa

    Updated:12-09-04

    Duration of ownership:6 Days

    Strengths: Produce printes an awesome quality, Separate 8 ink tanks, Fast and quite printing,Dual paper input sources

    Weaknesses: Pricey, Can print up to 8x10 photo, Ink tank a little bit more expensive ($9-$12 each), U.S. version doesn't have print on CD

    Overall Evaluation: I was looking for photo printer and read many reviews on the internet. I found this one and Canon i9900 have the highest rating. The i9900 has nothing more but able to print bigger size and cost about $100 more. I figured out that I don't need to print photos bigger than 8x10 so, I picked this one. This printer won't take much of your space and the shape looks like small box when you fold everything. The printer's paper handling is very good grabbing one photo paper sheet. It also does a self-cleaning of the print heads after each print job. If you are looking for a PHOTO printer, this is the one. I would highly recommend this printer.

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