canon i850 (Canon i850)

Member Name: bagatelle

Product:	Canon i850
Date:	25/11/05 (97 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: speed, price, quality

Disadvantages: temperamental

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 feature) but this uses about half of the ink (yup thats 6 x £7.00 divided by 2) so you dont want to hit that button by mistake !

Also as with all printers after a year it is having problems with the feeder, if you print a 50 page document you will get 10 pages of blanks where the printer had fed through 2 sheets of paper.

Overall its a good home printer, but dont expect it to be amazing quality, or to last forever.

Summary: good but certainly not what they promised