OMIGAWSH.. this printer ROCKS! The quality will make you say wow.
Written: Jan 27 '04 (Updated Jan 30 '04)
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Pros: Wonderful picture quality, quiet, looks nice, and has fold out paper tray
Cons: The fold up tray jams papers if it is not unfolded when printing.
The Bottom Line: I would recommend this printer because it uses separate ink tanks, prints excellent quality photos, and is quiet
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| cavoe's Full Review: Canon I-960 Photo Printer Ink-jet Printer |
Well, I must say I was torn.
Did I go up to the next step of technology and buy a dye sub printer and be limited to 4x6 photos? (I did not feel the price/ technology margin was at an equal rate, yet...) I was truly torn for quality and price. I wanted QUALITY photos, but I did not feel that the price value for printing off a dye sub was worth the convenience of having a photo printer at home. (I figured the average price to be about 80 cents a page.) OUCH! And being limited to a 4x6 photo size was a negative thought as well.
So, with the decision finally made for an ink jet, the quest began to find an ink jet printer that would print a shutterbug's photos to pre-defined specs. I thought that the ink jet quality photo would be less than perfect. Some flaws here and there. Not with the i960. I must say, after printing the first picture (a 4x6 from a 3.2 digital camera made by Sony on photo paper PRO!!! - made by Canon for Canon printers... a must for extremely good quality) the picture quality was amazing. It looked better than some of the professional pictures I have had printed in a lab.
The quality is good, it is quiet, it looks nice and it is a perfect mate with my laptop and digital camera obsession. It has pictbridge capability if you have a camera that supports it (this is where you can connect your camera directly to the printer and print without the use of a computer. This feature is lost on me because I do not know why you would want to do that and my camera does not support the technology anyway.) However, this does not affect my thoughts on the product.
The printer uses separate ink tanks. It does not use only one like so many of the photo printers on the market do. The reason this is good is because if you run out of one color ink, all you do is replace the particular empty color rather than entire cartridge. (12 dollars verses 30 or 40 dollars). Granted, you have to spend a little more up front, but in the long run, you will have more money in your pocket.
The printer itself is incredibly quiet. It allows for an even quieter mode if the user chooses. I did not put it into effect because I think that it is quiet enough all on its own. It also has a paper tray for just photo 4x6 paper. This is nice, because you do not have to pull out your 8 1/2 x 11 size paper to print a 4x6 photo. The switch is important to remember, otherwise you will print out photos on the regular computer paper. BTW, if you do print out on computer paper, you will probably say "wow, look at the quality of the picture, even on generic paper." I know that you will say that because that is what I said. :)
The only problem that I have had with it is I occasionally forget to unfold the paper tray. Although it is nice to have a folding paper tray, sometimes it is annoying when it wrinkles all your papers. When this happens, the computer size paper will jam and wrinkle all the precious documents that you have printed. I wish that it had an indicator beep or something to warn the person printing that all of their work is about to be mutilated and that they need to open the printer tray.
The print quality is awesome and the thing is quiet and looks nice. It is a wonderful printer. I am completely happy with it.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 179
Operating System: Windows
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