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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

This is a great ink-jet printer that I find hard to fault. The quality of the print is excellent, both on text and photographs. I especially like its capability to print from edge-to-edge. The only downside to this is persuading software packages like MS PowerPoint to take advantage of the edge-to-edge capability. Cannon?s system of individual tanks for each ink make the i850 far more economic than the Lexmark and HP inkjets I?ve previously owned. I bought a complete set of replacement tanks for less than the cost of a single Lexmark cartridge. However, in five months of fairly light usage but a handful of lengthy document prints I haven?t yet needed to change ...  Read the complete review

I have owned this printer for nearly a year now, the quality is ggood, allthough its not as good as the adverts state (basically that its a substitute for getting digital pictures developed ! - it is certainly not that) the inks are incredibly expensive if you buy canon origional allthough of course there are lots of places to get cheap ink if you search on the net, ifyou dont be aware the cartridges cost £7.00 each, and if you have kids they last about 3 days (im not kidding !) After a few months I have had problems with banding, and when you change an ink cartridge it can smudge for the first few copies, this is remedied by doing a deep clean (automatic ...  Read the complete review