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Bought this product from the amazon web site to replace my defective IP6210D photo printer. My total cost was $75.00. The printer was new and the packing contained two cartridges (a color and a photo) Great buy, to repair my old printer would have cost over $100.00.

PrinterMike

This printer came free with a digital camera I purchased from Amazon, and I have not been disappointed with the printer.

The printer came with everything I needed in the box to connect it to the computer, and it came with ink and software as well.

It prints about average speed, and has various print quality settings to choose from when printing photos.

For text, I have a B&W laser printer, but I kept this one for the occasional color document and for photos.

If I were looking for a photo printer, this one would not be my main choice, but it does a decent job for the occasional family photos.

The picture quality on photos is enough for my uses, but it is not quite as good as a more expensive printer would give, but good enough for framing a picture of our son to give grandpa, etc.

I enjoy the fact that you can plug a memory card directly into the printer to print pictures.

Overall, I am happy with the printer, especially since it was free for me!

Not a bad printer; I like the quality of print... but as said elsewhere, very expensive to maintain... Ink cartridges don't last long and are, as far as I can tell, more expensive.

I have been using a Canon i550 for several years now printing calendars for my family around xmas time. Each calendar is 13 pages and I print about 20 of them (13 x 20 x 2 sides = 520) at high resolution. I use a lot of ink and the Canon cartridges are easy to refill. The print head died on the i550, so I searched for a new Canon that had similar ink cartridges to refill.

Several of the PIXMA series have cartridges that look the same with the small difference that they have a chip on them. Instead of doing a visual check of the cartridge to determine if ink is low, the chip tells the printer driver after so many prints. Lame, but manageable !

The i550 had 1200 nozzles (if I remember correctly) and the iP6210D has 4800 (again, if I remember correctly). Anyway, I was expecting prints to be much better than the i550. The prints seemed to be about the same, so the extra nozzles didn't seem to make much difference.

The form factor is about the same, but there are a lot more buttons and features available. I don't ever print directly from memory card, so a lot of the features I don't use.

I was also hoping that the print speed of the borderless 8.5 x 11 prints that I use for the calendar would be faster. This printer doesn't seem to print much faster than the older Canon.

Overall it's a good printer, but the quality probably isn't much better than one of the lower end PIXMA printers.