Summary: Canon i9100 Review
Comment: After reviewing several review I bought the canon i9100 photo printer. I have been exceptionally pleased with the printer. The colors are outstanding. I have enlarged a high resolution photo (taken with a Nikon D100) and printed an 8.5 X 11 and its as good as any film picture taken with my Nikon N90 camera. I would recommend this printer to others.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Junk
Comment: I purchased the i9100 after my old hp died. I searched the web
read reviews and everything looking for the best printer, not considering cost. I thought this was it, but not so, it was, in my opinion junk. MY old hp that cost 130 dollars printed circles around this thing. It must be just this one, I can't believe a 500 dollar printer prints like this. I'm returning this one and ordering a new one just to see if I got a bad one. I call tech support went through the stuff ......no good, tryed everything dumb and not so dumb blotchie and faded color not even useable let along state of the art.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Defective
Comment: There is a white shadow line on the left side of the picture.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Photo Printer works with Airport Extreme USB
Comment: I have always been an HP fan, but this printer changed my mind. The wide format speaks for itself, but beyond that, I have noticed improved printing speed and print quality. More importantly, the Canon i9100 works perfectly with my Apple Airport Extreme wireless base station. I installed the software (native OSX support) and then attached the printer to the USB port on my Airport Extreme. Rendesvous found it immediately! I have noticed that the delay between clicking print and sending it to the printer is virtually eliminated with the i9100. The only drawback I can see is that I wish it had a larger paper tray. But that is a small problems for a wonderful six color printer!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Photo Printer
Comment: I did some research and thought that for me the Canon i9100 was the best option of excellent printing quality, flexibility, and had pricing that was not out of this world. I have just printed my first few photos and I am amazed. Oh, that bit where they say it prints really fast...True. Setup was straight forward except for a paper feed problem, see below. Pictures are so clear I cannot believe that these photos came from an ink jet. Boy have things changed since my HP 500 B&W.
I have an older 2 mega-pixel Nikon Digital camera and the 4x6 images are sharp on this printer. I needed to decrease the resolution to around 250 pixels/inch to fill a 4x6 photo properly. This did not seem to impact the perceived quality much if at all. Time to get the Nikon D100!!! I know...I know, I got a Canon printer but I have a big investment in Nikon lenses already.
Drawbacks:
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I have not played with the included Canon Photo Software too much. The first picture or two that I printed with it had banding in the colors (like JPG artifacts). The canon software has photo batch options that are already set for 4x6 and other common paper sizes. This is a plus. The option to instantly print a borderless picture was neat but I will pass on this software until I can get the quality where I want it. Fiddling with the software or checking for updates may fix this problem.
Oh, one of the paper guides got misaligned. I think this might of happened when I was taking off the miles of shipping tape. I had quite of few sore words toward the printer until I finally saw the misalignment way down in the area where the paper is fed. I knew that the paper should not jam every other page.
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Shhh, can let the wife know. Now I have my eye on the Canon 9900F scanner to complement this wonderful printer.
Well back to printing. I need to work a little bit on color correction but that is all part of the fun.