Summary: Better than expected
Comment: I had an Epson 890 Photo Printer and the print head clogged up, and it would have been more expensive to replace the head than to buy a new printer.
I had some doubts about this Canon i9100, but once I ordered and received it , this printer proved to be better than expected.
No problem set up, got it running right away, beautiful print out.
I have a test page, made of the basic window colors in different shapes. With my old Epson 890 I spent many nights, tried all the settings, calibrated the screen matching, etc, etc, and I could never ever get the right colors across the whole spectrum. The colors were always skewed at one end or another.
Guess what, the Canon printed from the very beginning, with standard settings, all the colors in the right COLOR. Tried different papers and settings, always came out perfect.
The best:
really nice color reproduction, large size prints, about 5 to 10 times faster than my Epson, individual color cartridges, replaceable print head, very quiet operation.
The questionable:
Will have to see how long the prints last, since definitely the Epson has an advantage with long lasting inks. I will get some Canon paper and experiment with it.
The bad:
I wish it came with at least a couple of papers in all different sizes (not only 4x6), and an USB cable. C'mon Canon, couldn't you throw in a $5.00 USB cable on your best printer?
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great but Beware of Booklet Mode!
Comment: This is another fine addition to the Canon line, but an unnecessary limitation in Booklet Mode limits its use for engineering applications where one must retain precise scales.
Print an engineerring drawing in Normal and it comes out by default scaled exactly as the source document. (Of course, you can scale it up or down at your option if you wish.) One inch on the source prints out as one inch on the printout.
Booklet mode, however, forces an unsuspected margin and scales the output down slightly. There is no provision in the driver to supress this scaling. Otherwise, this printer does everything else very well.
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Summary: This printer is like having a photo processing lab
Comment: I needed a good printer for my business to print brochures and photo postcards. I received it today and printed a couple of family pictures I took with my Canon Powershot S20 3.3 Megapixel digital camera on a piece of the Canon Photo Paper Pro 4"x6" (5 sheets are included with the printer) to test the quality. I can truly say that the picture quality using this combo was better than labwork. The colors were more vibrant without the slightest hint of pixels anywhere. My jaw dropped to the floor when I saw this beautiful photo print in less than 30 seconds. This printer, I am convinced, is the best you can buy. It does borderless printing in all sizes... Even 13x19! Prints on other papers provided good results but not as stunning as the combo used above. I printed a borderless photo on a piece of regular 8 1/2x11 paper and it looked great!
This printer is truly a marvel and the speed is unmatched with the quality of the prints that rival and surpass professional photo labs. The Canon paper costs a few cents more but is well worth it. Make sure you get Canon Photo Paper Pro and not just the Photo Paper Plus. Ink use is minimal. I printed 5 4x6" photos, 3 5x7" photos and 3 8 1/2x11" photos and the ink level did not go down. I bought mock-up ink carts off of Ebay that cost $10.95 for all 6 carts! Truly, you cannot go wrong with this printer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very Pleased!!
Comment: I am very pleased with my new i9100 printer. It was easy to set up and install. Results are great. Photos look like those from a professional photo lab. I highly recommend this to anyone who is serious about photography
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Summary: Fantastic quality and speed - Photos and CAD
Comment: This is a perfect printer for a small architectural firm. The photo quality is remarkable - better than any lab has produced for us - and the speed is jaw dropping compared to Epson.
Haven't done large format photos yet - but have regularly printed 11 x 17 B/W CAD drawings - which are incredibly crisp even on plain paper. Tiny type is readable on reduced checkplots. I should have put a stopwatch to it, but it seems that a reduced D size print with complex title bar/graphics comes out in 15 seconds or so. Just received some 13 x 19 paper so that we can print D size (24 x 36) plots at exactly half size - giving accurate 1/8" scale drawings for example for what would be 1/4" scale on the plotter.
Separate ink tanks, quality and speed are what drew us to this printer. Will have to see how the ink lasts to see how economical it is in use.