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Canon Pixma MP950 User Experiences
Hi,
I am looking into buying the Canon Pixma MP950 but I have searched the internet for a few minutes and could only find 1 or 2 reviews. This printer is so new I cannot find any good opinions on it. If anyone has this printer, could they please post their experiences with it or if someone knows of a review of this printer on the internet could they please post a link? Thanks, Murph |
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Martin wrote in news:h70Hf.276081$vl2.120238
@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk: You can however bet that they use the newer chipped cartridges so your consumables cost will be pretty high. If they are the chipped carts, you can refill them with little fuss, if you don't mind losing ink monitoring. |
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Gary Tait wrote: Martin wrote in news:h70Hf.276081$vl2.120238 : You can however bet that they use the newer chipped cartridges so your consumables cost will be pretty high. If they are the chipped carts, you can refill them with little fuss, if you don't mind losing ink monitoring. LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE |
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I've had a canon mp950 for about a month now. It's the second photo
printer I've had (my other was a 4 year old canon bjc-8200) so I don't have too much to compare it with, but here are my opinions: Pros: - Photo quality is great: I've printed on Canon Photo Paper Plus Glossy and the pictures look like film. They are smug free. Even after dipping them in water they discolor, but don't smudge. - Many input options and good computer-free usage: There are many options for getting your photos to the printer (usb from computer, usb from camera, 4 types of memory cards, and scanning film or negs). None but the usb from computer requires a computer. From a memory card, you can print out a contact sheet of all the photos on it (or a subset of them). The printout has bubbles for indicating which ones you want and how many etc. (like an SAT test). You fill in the bubbles indicating what you want, then you scan the sheet out back into the printer. Then it prints out the photos you chose on photo paper to your specifications. No computer needed. It's awesome! - Fast and loud or slow and quiet: Normally, the printer is pretty loud compared with my old one. It's mostly paper-loading noises, I think. But it's a lot faster than my old one. There is a setting in the driver (and I think it's settable from the printer itself too) which quiets the printer down at the cost of speed. It really works. - Text printing and copying looks great too. - Dual paper trays are great. - Duplexing of even photos. It's a little slow, but it works. I haven't tried 2-sided photos and probably won't. Cons: - The scanner works fine, but I wish it had an IR light or whatever for removing scratches, dust and fuzz. I've scanned 2 or 3 rolls of 35mm negs and it was easier than I was expecting (I had heard horror stories), but you could see lint and stuff on the scanned images. I understand that some dedicated scanners (even cheap ones) take an extra pass with an IR light and can remove these things some how in conjunction with software (ICE?). I wish the mp950 had it. - When photo paper comes from the cartridge tray (which is enclosed), the prints have horizontal lines which you can only see from an angle (roller marks?). These don't show up when the photo paper is loaded in the auto sheet feeder, but my inclination is to load photo paper into the enclosed tray. - It's a little big for my taste. - It's a little expensive for my taste (I originally paid $430, but got Amazon to give me $60 bucks back since they've lowered the price to $370!). Overall, I'm very pleased with it. I got it for it's all-in-one capabilities leaning towards photo printing and it definitely fits the bill. Also, here's a review I saw since I bought it: http://msn.pcworld.com/reviews/artic...,124254,00.asp I hope this helps, Josh |
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Thank you for this!! It helps a lot.. exactly what I needed!
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ups.com... I've had a canon mp950 for about a month now. It's the second photo printer I've had (my other was a 4 year old canon bjc-8200) so I don't have too much to compare it with, but here are my opinions: Pros: - Photo quality is great: I've printed on Canon Photo Paper Plus Glossy and the pictures look like film. They are smug free. Even after dipping them in water they discolor, but don't smudge. - Many input options and good computer-free usage: There are many options for getting your photos to the printer (usb from computer, usb from camera, 4 types of memory cards, and scanning film or negs). None but the usb from computer requires a computer. From a memory card, you can print out a contact sheet of all the photos on it (or a subset of them). The printout has bubbles for indicating which ones you want and how many etc. (like an SAT test). You fill in the bubbles indicating what you want, then you scan the sheet out back into the printer. Then it prints out the photos you chose on photo paper to your specifications. No computer needed. It's awesome! - Fast and loud or slow and quiet: Normally, the printer is pretty loud compared with my old one. It's mostly paper-loading noises, I think. But it's a lot faster than my old one. There is a setting in the driver (and I think it's settable from the printer itself too) which quiets the printer down at the cost of speed. It really works. - Text printing and copying looks great too. - Dual paper trays are great. - Duplexing of even photos. It's a little slow, but it works. I haven't tried 2-sided photos and probably won't. Cons: - The scanner works fine, but I wish it had an IR light or whatever for removing scratches, dust and fuzz. I've scanned 2 or 3 rolls of 35mm negs and it was easier than I was expecting (I had heard horror stories), but you could see lint and stuff on the scanned images. I understand that some dedicated scanners (even cheap ones) take an extra pass with an IR light and can remove these things some how in conjunction with software (ICE?). I wish the mp950 had it. - When photo paper comes from the cartridge tray (which is enclosed), the prints have horizontal lines which you can only see from an angle (roller marks?). These don't show up when the photo paper is loaded in the auto sheet feeder, but my inclination is to load photo paper into the enclosed tray. - It's a little big for my taste. - It's a little expensive for my taste (I originally paid $430, but got Amazon to give me $60 bucks back since they've lowered the price to $370!). Overall, I'm very pleased with it. I got it for it's all-in-one capabilities leaning towards photo printing and it definitely fits the bill. Also, here's a review I saw since I bought it: http://msn.pcworld.com/reviews/artic...,124254,00.asp I hope this helps, Josh Josh - A few tips I've learned from the dozen or so printers I've owned Generally best to use the straightest paper path for photo paper or heavy paper stock. If the cartridge tray is at all similar to my ip5000, I would just use that for plain paper as the paper has to make a "u-turn" from the cartridge into the printing area. When using the top feed area on my i960 (no cartridge in the "i" series) I had ink smudges and banding on the trailing edge of 4x6 borderless prints with my and looked up the problem on the Canon web site. Turns out that this can occur with paper that has a slight curve, and the fix they recommend is to put an opposite curve in the paper by running it over the edge of a table or desk. This would be a nuisance as I print lots of pictures at a time and would have to handle each piece of paper. I then realized that any paper I left in the top feed area took a slight curve and caused the problem. I now keep all photo paper stored flat. After a print run I put any remaining photo paper back in the box where it is stored flat. Problem solved. |
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Cool. Thanks for the tips Burt. I'll start doing that.
Josh |
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