Canon i850

First let me express my amazement that no one in Dooyoo has yet reviewed this printer, which has been available in the States since end September 2002 and which I received only yesterday March 19th, 2003. This is explained by the delay that all new hardware encurs between its launch on the US market and its launch on the EU market. This delay seems to go hand in hand with a higher price. To illustrate the time gap the Canon i850 became available in February 2003 in France and this month of March in Belgium and Holland. This practice has very much worked against Canon as in this same period of time the printer market was flooded with HP's 5550 model, aimed at almost ...

I purchased this printer several months ago, and have been extremely pleased with its performance ever since. I looked at the various offerings from HP, Epson and Lexmark as well, and decided upon the Canon i850 as the perfect choice. I was looking for an all-round printer, that could cope with a small-business workload (I have plenty of college work to do, and my mum is an Avon Team Leader) without costing the earth in consumables. I also wanted to print photos, so printing quality was a serious consideration, and not just the cost to run the machine. Overview ************** As far as ...

I bought this Canon photo printer after I ditched the Epson one I had for 7 months. This is an excellent printer. It's so quiet when it's printing. When it's making a photo quality print the noise is barely audible, unlike my previous Epson printer which was very noisy. This Canon printer even has a separate 'quiet' facility to use at night but it hardly seems like it needs it. This printer works with almost no noise at all! It's also very fast, again easily 4-5 times faster than Epson at printing the same things. Photo quality prints are fast tracked through and the quality is superb. Text on plain paper almost flies out the ...