One of the best Printers I have ever used, I purchased this printer after my Epson Photo Stylus RX425 started to get sick and eventually only copy prints, and after my Lexmark photo printer inks were putting a hole in my pocket.

The Copy feature automatically optimizes the quality based on the type of original you're duplicating. The convenient Photo/Film buttons allow you to make reprints of your photos and film without using your computer. And the scanning enables you to produce exceptional 2400-dpi scans, which are vibrant and as close to the original as possible. You can simultaneously scan up to 6 frames of 35mm film (negatives or positives), or up to 4 mounted slides of film. It also has a CD printing tray and you can print on printable CD's. There are 3 different memory card readers which is pretty much all you need, and also a PictBridge port to print things straight from your camera which I have tried and it works superbly. One of the best features for me are that it also has 2 paper trays, one at the top and one in a slid tray at the bottom so you can switch easily between photo and normal prints on normal or photo paper.

This is a superb printer, and is very professional, and has a 3.5 inch colour LCD screen which makes things very easy to navigate and is bigger then most high quality All-In-One printers available and it kind of looks like a Sat Nav (Tom Tom), the scanning quality is fantastic, and it can print out as fast as a copier on fast function and the ink lasts very long if you use it on a reasonable basis.

The only downsides are that is very heavy and very big, and the ink costs around £40 to refill all 5, about £32 to refill the main 4 ink tanks, but the inks are pretty cool and light up red. There are also compatible inks that go with this printer, and are only like £2-3 for each of the 5 inks and can be bought on eBay or any ink retailing site such as www.colourwise.co.uk and www.ab-inks.co.uk and many more. You can also get Ink refill kits for slightly more, but more ink for this printer from eBay and such, that saves more money then compatibles and is quite simple, but make sure you cap the ink hole where you drilled into the top straight away once you have injected the ink, as it is air tight and ink escapes through the bottom when it is exposed to air. The inks from this printer are also used in the lower MP530.

I decided to stick with official Canon inks and you can get them cheapest on Amazon.co.uk as I have searched everywhere, but make sure you buy from Amazon and not a Amazon marketer as they charge a crazy £4.50 for shipping because its under the electronics category, although if you are very low on budget, then you could consider compatibles or ink refilling which I used to do on my other printers at one point.