I used it for about a week, but I did not fully test it. This is due to the fact that my brother came back to take the printer away for his own use in some other state. I’m left without a printer, so the next day, my dad got me a new one instead. This is then I discovered the true capabilities of this printer.

It comes in a yellow large box, properly packed and adequately Styrofoamed for protection. The picture on the box only shows the picture of the printer and does not really look fascinating. Once opened, you’ll notice the printer is wrapped in a plastic, adequately sealed with tapes so prevent moving parts and additional individual pieces from flinging about around in the box.
Once the plastic is taken off, you notice more plastic. It’s the printer I mean. It looks smells and feels like plastic. Confirmed, it is plastic, without having to taste it. I don’t agree with it as it has the plasticky looks and is somewhat fragile. But the design is not that bad after all, looks simple, nice smooth finish and comfortable to the touch. Basically, the ones old in my place only comes in White colour, with a blue front. I do not know if there’s any other colour.

Once plugged into your comp, and the external power is turned on, the printer’s startup is quite long. It takes about 30 seconds to start up before it settles down. Within that 30 sec or more, you’ll hear funny noises, wheels turning, printer head is moving and whatever…. And after that, it stays very quiet, this then would mean that it has properly settled down and you can start any of your printing applications.

Performance:
If you’d print it black and white on a economy or standard mode, it prints relatively fast. The High quality mode would take a longer time. Printing isn’t as sharp as laser printers or other bubble jets but it is good enough and clear enough to be read. Only a little smudges on some words can be seen if you take a magnifying glass to go over it. For normal looks, it looks just as good as any other magazine or newspaper printing. It goes easy on the eyes.
Whereas, printing a large JPEG format picture would take quite long, at about 4-5 minutes a page. Colour would be worse. A full page coloured picture will make you wait for about 6-8 minutes, depending on the quality selection.
Basically, it prints at around 3-4 Pages per minute, and the black printing is certainly satisfactory. Printing colour would be terrible. There seems to be a little problem on the colour ink cartridges. When a colour picture is printed, the picture has more blue on it than any other colour. This will make any or every single picture look blue and dull. I sorta doubted it that the ink cartridges do not separate the ink properly on the inside.
I think every colour picture it printed sucked, and the best quality does not look good as well.
Although Canon claims this printer to have 2880x720 Dpi, with vivid photo technology, it just wasn’t outstanding enough.

This printer only accepts A4 size papers or smaller. Not recommended for large papers. The reserve section for paper is somewhat amazing. You can load at least 40-45 of 80gsm papers as reserves on the top-back, without having any problem. But I would not dare to say the same if you’d put a thick photo paper in it.

The printer uses only around 15 or 20 watts during printing and 2 watts during standby, which is quite power saving.

The computer weighs around 2kg, and cos’ the size it quite small, it sits perfectly on top of my computer tower, along with my DSL Modem. Because of its size and weight, I even thought of making it a portable printer. I don’t mind carrying it around while traveling.

Price? Hey, it the cheapest bubble jet printer around! The whole printer costs only 25GBP! I don’t think there’s any other printer cheaper than that. It’s the cheapest range of printers from Canon.
As for the ink, Original Inks comes cheap too! The black ink costs only 2.5GBP and the colour ink costs within 4-5GBP. It’s all original Canon ink and you DON’T have to get an unofficial brand!
Besides that, guess what? It comes with a free scientific calculator too from Casio! That was the deal I get over here.
Price of inks may vary and I heard that Canon is going to increase the price of it. So better hurry!

I have been using Canon products for quite sometimes like my scanner, and ixus camera, and now this, but none of them seem to be defective. I’m quite satisfied with their products overall.