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Rating from Ritatsu 5 Stars ()

Advantages Everything you need except fax

Disadvantages no Fax, ink is quite pricey, its big and heavy

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.

This PIXMA MP800 Photo All-In-One delivers spectacular Print performance and is better then anything I have ever seen. It produces an amazing resolution of up to 9600 x 2400 colour dpi remarkable detail and clarity in your prints and produces virtually grain free images in each of its prints set at high quality. A 4"x 6" photo lab quality borderless photo takes approximately 36 seconds, but I have found that with most of my images it seems much faster which is superb.

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

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. 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.

I bought this printer for my college work, as my college has 16000 students and there are quite a lot of students printing on the same copier at the same time, and what a great decision it has been so far. The print quality is far superior then my Epson printer, and the print outs come out almost 20 times faster.

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.

This is the first time I have ventured into the canon printing world and I was stuck deciding whether I should buy this printer or the Canon MP530, although that printer is £70 cheaper, it has less features, such as photos slide printing, faster speeds, larger LCD colour screen and resolution, although it does have CD printing.

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.

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