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Advantages: compact, fast balck and colour print
Disadvantages: ink cartiridges run out quick

The Canon i350 is a small, easy to use and very suitable for home and office use. It is called a bubblejet printer due to the ink coming out in bubbles onto the page and has a better effect than inkjet printers. With a fairly bid resolution per inch, 4800 x 1200 makes it a good printer for printing photos with or without borders, documents with high resolution pictures and almost anything you can think of. It has a pretty imperesive print rate ...
...printer and comes with a guarentee. You can by another ink cartridge every time it runs out but i advise getting them refilled at specail stores as it saves money and the environment. Overall the Canon i350 is an easy to use printer and ideal for any purpose. ... Read review

Advantages: No need for a pc as you can print from memory cards!
Disadvantages: Expensive ink. No usb provided.

...printer he bought me the Canon Pixma IP6210D. The printer is quite boxy looking despite a few curves in the design, it’s grey and black colouring will fit alongside most computer equipment and with my pc, keyboard and mouse. As well as the printer inside the box was also a chunky manual with all the info you would need(in several languages) an easy to follow “Software and User Guide” disc for your pc, a pack of 6x4 sized photo paper, a colour ink ...
...I was not supplied with was a USB cable to link the printer to my pc which I was very unimpressed with, while I could still print from memory cards I was unable to print from desktop software and in fact could not completely install the machine until I had found a suitable wire, I do wonder if this was a deliberate mistake though as I’ve checked the company website and they are selling the cables separately, what a cunning way to make a little extra ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent quick printing, photos just add icing on the cake
Disadvantages: Paper jams for drafts

...relatively quick speed (depending on settings). But beware of using draft prints as this for some reason causes the printer to jam or crumple through the process. Ink catridges suprisingly outlast any other inkjet I have owned. HP 56, 57, 58 are used in this machine. ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent text
Disadvantages: No letter tray!

...on my previous experience of Canon printers - I opted for a Pixima with FINE technology. I already have a very good photo printer in the shape of the Epson R800, and an Epson 830U which I use for rough drafts as it is on it's last legs. Fact is, I needed a printer to print decent quality letters and the odd mixed text and image sheet. I previously used an old Canon S520 but it finally gave up the ghost, and I have to say the i1800 - at about a quarter ...
...capable machine. It prints in various modes (high, standard, draft and custom) and in high quality mode, the text is as good as any printer I've seen. It's not fast though, so if you print a lot of text you may want to look at a laser. Printing tecxt over colour (a sample web page) was not so hot, but I don't really care! Photo printing is acceptable, though I didn't buy it for that purpose and only printed one quick pic to get an idea. I imagine ... Read review

Advantages: cheap, good for black ink, easy to buy cartridges, "low ink" warning
Disadvantages: annoying software, not so good for colour printing or high quality stuff

...this option from within the Lexmark options screen (via Control Panel), unless you like to hear "Printing started!" in chirpy American every time you press print. Usefully, it'll monitor ink levels and warn you when they get low, with a link to the supplier's website. I get good results generally with black ink, variable with colour (sometimes either the blue or red ink seems to 'cut out'). Occasionally pulls in the paper at a wonky angle, say 1 ... Read review