A guy who will tell you how it is, and what you need to know about actual use of the product not ju...
A guy who will tell you how it is, and what you need to know about actual use of the product not just fancy numbers and specifications.
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-----| First Impressions |-----
Came well packed, no clutter and was easy to unpack. I got the whole printer connected up and ready to install in about 10 minutes. All the parts were very easy to install, and the manual was good as it was just easy to follow pictures and i got up and running in no time.
All good so far. However it is a bit large, bigger than i thought it would be for something that only printed A4.
-----| Software |-----
The software that came with this printer was generally pretty good however there is a lot of it, several different programs as it’s a multifunction device, printer/scanner/copier. Which i think could have been bundled into one well thought out program to save my desktop
being flooded.
I bought this printer because it said it was specifically for photos, so that’s what i tried first, and the software was very good at getting me set up to print, it lets you turn on functions like colour correction and vivid colour (which i will come to later) and there is also a retouching section, similar (but not nearly as powerful) to adobe Photoshop.
-----| First Print |-----
I got some photo paper (not canons own, i had some HP paper lying around, still very high quality paper) and printed one of my home photos, i picked a photo with a dull background and a vivid foreground to try out how well it printed the colours. I was shocked at how awful it was. The edges looked like a cracked dried up desert. As shown in the link below.
Not too discouraged by this print i tried again with the same paper but a different setting, maybe i chose the wrong paper type (as the software has a million and one options that are quiet confusing as there is no description). Second try resulted in exactly the same.
Moving away from the photo paper i tried normal A4 paper, maybe this would be better as i had the wrong type of paper possibly? Well no the print was dull, completely wrong colour on some things, i compared a print from my HP laser printer to this printer and there was no comparison just shockingly bad quality.
Now i got some of my girlfriend’s photo paper to try that and see if it worked any better, no just even more disappointment, this time you couldn’t even make out a photo.
Note the ink is still wet the day after i printed this. Yes that is the same photograph as above but you can’t tell.
Now I’m no idiot, when i set this printer up i made perfectly clear that i didn’t touch any of the contacts on the ink cartridges and installed it exactly as instructed.
I also tried every paper with every setting to make sure that it wasn’t my mistake.
About the vivid photo option, as mentioned above, this destroyed the colours of my photograph it made the lights too light and the darks a different colour, so i didn’t use that again.
-----| Scanning |-----
Just to see if it worked after a disastrous print failure i tried the scanning option, it was ok scans at a decent size for most home use, but don’t expect to be getting brilliant scans from this.
My epson scanner is much better in every way so save you money and buy a separate scanner.
-----| Conclusion |-----
Terrible, unacceptable print quality, may have been a faulty printer or may have been my error (although i seriously doubt it as i took every precaution and tested it thoroughly).
OK scanner but if you require good quality high resolution scans buy a separate scanner something with a higher range dpi ability and proper software to do it.
After finding out how bad this printer was i looked to see if i could return it and found out i couldn’t as it had been opened and used so i didn’t get my money back.
A waste of money and time.
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Forgot to mention that this printer comes with no cable to connect it to the computer, so if you hope to do that your going to have to fork out more money to do it. I used one from my scanner to make it work.
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