Canon S400

quite good - Advantages: good quality - Disadvantages: Cartrigdes Pricey

I have to say to start with, that the print quality of this printer is excellent, that I cannot grumble about. What really annoys me is pressing print! This little printer moans and whines for about 45 seconds before actually doing any printing. I have queried this with the manufacturer and repair companies, who say it is normal for Canon! I used to have a Lexmark, which I loved till it decided to stop prinitng properly, and when you pressed print that's what you got, a print. I press print on the S400 and I wait, listen to it moan, wait some more, listen to the ink cartridges whizzing back and forth, wait some more and eventually after ...  Read the complete review

I bought this printer to replace my old Apollo P-1200 (which was still working well when I gave it to my Grandma-in-law with my old PC so she could e-mail etc.) The Apollo was fine for printing sheets and sheets of plain black text with a black cartridge, but for text with photos it was a bit of a joke. As the colour cartridge contained no black ink, it would just use all three colours to make a kind of dark blue which not only looked bad, but used tons of expensive colour ink! After my first colour cartridge had run out I didn't bother replacing it. I had seen the adverts for Canon's "Single Ink Tank" technology which sounded like a ...  Read the complete review