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Summary: Great Printer!
Review: Got this printer for my daughter in college. After hooking it up and printing a test page, went back on line and ordered another one for myself. Prints pictures the best I have ever seen. (and have had a number of different printers) Worth the money.
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Summary: Great value, Great Printer!
Review: I have only been using this printer for a couple of weeks, but so far the results are excellent. I printed a photo on Canon's glossy paper from a JPG emailed to me. It looks like a professionally processed photo. Text printing is also excellent. Set up was very easy. If I had to come up with any CONs, it would be that once you have issued the print command, it seems to take a while for it to start printing, although this is not a problem for me. I recommend it.
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Summary: Love This Printer!!
Review: I recently purchased this i550 after reading several reviews on it, and thought the price was great (especially sinces there is a rebate)!! I got it in today and love it. I've only had two printers before this one, an HP which was great and then replaced it with an absolutely horrible Xerox 750. It shook and rattled, took up half of my desk, took forever to spool and froze my computer. The Canon i550 is incredibly easy to set up, small and super quiet as well as much faster than my old Xerox. It's amazing how much better I feel knowing I can print without turning my computer on and off. It was easy to set up and the color was great when I printed a few pages out. I cannot tell you how pleased I am with this printer!!
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: Thank you Amazon.com. Read the reviews, ordered and here in 4 days and no shipping costs. Excellent service. The printer is excellent. Easy to set up, very quiet and gives truly excellent results. Replaced an HP Desk-jet 952 (noisy and tempermental!)which expired on its warrantee anniversary! The Canon is far superior and the separate ink cartridges is a great idea. I have had a number of Canon BJ printers and all are (note the present tense!) excellent - don't know why I bothered with HP and will never again!
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Summary: Canon got the nod over Epson this time
Review: Been an Epson customer over the years. But this time after allot of investigation, the Canon i550 won me over this time, over HP and Epson. Great output and I really like the seperate ink cartridges and quiet operation. For home use it is one fine printer.
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Summary: SHOCKING CLARITY
Review: This is my first color printer and I didn't think this tiny printer would do anything and thought only color laser printers would produce photo quality. Was I wrong!!! I was totally shocked at the quality. I have a digital camera and have printed dozens of pictures. Most of my relatives think that I have had my 8 x 10 photos professionaly developed. The only negative comment is that I had to go out and buy printer cables since they were not supplied with the printer. Be sure to use the best quality photo paper. I have a HP LaserJet 4P printer and I have turned it off. The Canon i550 prints faster than it does.
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Summary: I am very pleased!
Review: For so many years HP and Epson were among the highest rated printers. I had great quality from my HP 840C Deskjet--for 3 1/2 years, after which 'it' decided that I had No Paper (even after pulling paper through, but not printing). I had it cleaned, but a short time later, the problem re-occured. So I went out and bought an Epson C82. And wasn't happy. It made an incredible racket once the data was FINALLY received and it pulled the paper down; and then, after waiting and jumping out of my chair when it pulled the paper in, I was not impressed by the quality of the print--in any mode. (see my review of the C82 printer)
So, what the heck... Canon was getting high ratings. I went to exchange the Epson for the Canon i850, but it was out of stock. Needing a printer ASAP, I bought the i550 figuring if I didn't like it I could exchange it. I'm not exchanging it! The trays aren't the most solidly built, but if you don't jerk them in and out, they'll hold up. And I was very pleased with the quality of print! I've printed in nearly all modes and media types (from e-mail, scanned, digital camera, text from documents, etc.) and have not been disappointed! Unlike other users' experiences with photo paper, I've found that JetPrint Photo Paper (Premium) works just as well as the Canon paper. Looks great on Burlington Bright White, too. I also am VERY appreciative that Canon is using the individual color tanks. I hated having to dump a cartridge that was NOT cheap just becuase one color was depleted. It really does end up being quite a money saver! However I've been disappointed with the photo software (both Canon and Epson). So far no one meets, let alone beats, Adobe PhotoShop! So buy a Canon printer, install Adobe PhotoShop, and be deliriously happy!
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Summary: Great photo printer but needs right paper
Review: This is my first experience with a color printer from Canon. But initial test on regular papers was disappointing, even I selected the correct regular paper printing option. I was about to return this printer, thinking that if the printing quality on the regular paper is as such, it won't hold much chance for printing photos, where the quality is more demanding. This turns out to be gravely wrong. The photo print from high quality photo glossy paper, a small gift package from Canon, is simply amazing and hard to believe. They are even better than my regular photos developed from the film. The time of digital camera and prints has finally come. It seems to me that Canon i550 is a great photo printer if using the right photo paper. I highly recommend the Canon Photo Paper
Plus Glossy for this printer. I tried more expensive Kodak papers (e.g. Kodak Ultra Glossy). Canon's paper is better by a big margin, in terms of paper quality, printing quality and price. In picture printing, once you see how good a picture print can be, you will never want to keep a less perfect one. I ended up wasting my investment on Kodak papers, that I originally thought to be the best given the expensiveness of the paper (a price factor of two or more comparing to Canon's paper). In short, don't expect a great printing quality on the regular paper, and if the quality is not idea, make sure you use the right paper. The ink in i550 is more water like, and it produces beautiful photo print with a thin layer of ink that is tightly bounded to the paper. For regular paper printing, Epson C82 might be a better choice, since it uses a thicker but more expensive ink. Here are some small things that can change your experience with i550. (1) If you use USB port to connect the printer with your computer, make sure you order this cable (Belkin F3U133-06), a [money] item. (2) The installation manual is generally good except at one step. You need to turn the printer on in order to reach the gray printing head release and installation handle. You cannot reach it when the printer is off. In other words, you need to turn printer on when you want to install the printing head and inks.
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Summary: Buy it now. You're wasting your time reviewing others.
Review: I have had this printer for about six weeks. Everything prints great, especially 4" x 6" photos. It's much faster than my old Epson and uses a lot less ink.
I bought this printer with the fact in mind that I would probably be buying a digital camera in the near future. I was so impressed with the printer that when I bought the camera it had to be a Canon too.
Canon printers always seemed second rate to Epson or HP, but they have left the competition behind.
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Summary: Good printer, but not great for photo
Review: It is a regular printer. It can be used as a photo printer, but the quality is not very good. I can see the dots on the pictures. And the color is not "real". If using mid-quality or low-quality photo paper, the pictures are even worse. Text printing is fast and good.
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