Canon i960 Photo Printer

This is by far one of the worst purchases I've made...not necessarily Amazon's fault, but not a good printer!! Barely 8 months of mild usage and I have nothing but feed problems....it either does not feed paper or it feeds several sheets at once. Needless to say, I've wasted alot of photo grade paper!! I guess I have an extra boat anchor now.

I have always used Canon printers because of their multiple ink tank design. I use generic ink in refillable cartridges to maximize cost effectiveness. This printer does an excellent job.

After adjusting for how pink this printer printed photos (had to take the Magenta setting to -15), it was OK for about 6 months. Now, every photo prints incredibly pink. I take photographs of art for a major collection here in Boston. Color matching is very important in my prints. This printer is horrible. By by. Im going to HP.
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I purchased this printer two years ago and 1t produced excellent results for the first year. The color quality slowly began to diminsh after that time and eventually required that I perform the head cleaning process before each printing job. I finally received an error message that instructed me that a major malfunction had taken place and to contact customer service. I was then instructed to either ship the unit in for service or consider a new unit. The manufactured would not tell me what the suspected problem was however suggested that it could be the printing head. I believe that not using the printer on a regular bases caused the heads to plug up beyond what the normal deep cleaning process could correct. My advice to anyone who buys into the Canon ink tank system, be sure to print a test page daily and perform the head cleaning process weekly. I don't believe I will own another Canon printer for this reason.

I did a lot of research before buying my i950 a few years ago. I bought the i960 a year ago when I thought the i950 stopped working. Found out it was only a bad cable but now I have both! LOL

These photo printers print the most awesome pictures I have seen. I waffled between the Canon and the Epson and decided on Canon and I'm glad I did. I never take my photos for printing anymore. We have taken some awesome pictures while on vacation and having a printer to print an 8 x 10 if you want it is great. I only print the pictures I want.

I've found that my printer ink does not run out as fast as I thought they would. The cartridges are around $11-12. I use my photo printer for convenience. I generally take 500-1200 pictures with my digital per 7-10 day vacation. Having that number of pictures developed can be cost prohibitive. With the photo printer, I can just print the shots I want. A lot of my pictures end up as computer desktops and emailed. If I am doing a memory book or photo album and I can just print the photos I need.

The colors are sharp and clear and always match what I have on screen unless my printer ink is getting low, then I might get some weird tinge to a photo. The printer warns you when you are getting low. I would recommend not using anything other than the canon ink refills. I tried an offbrand sold by Frye's in my i950 and have occ skipped lines, even after head cleaning, etc. I took it out almost immediately, but it still very rarely will skip lots of lines. I have thought about repairing it but the printers are so inexpensive now, it probably would be cheaper just to buy another.

Anyway, I have my Canon i960 which is basically about the same printer, but I believe the differences are the i960 has the individual 4x6 paper holder, USB connection and you can print directly from camera. Luckily, both these printers use the same ink cartridges. The printers also come with some great photo editing software by Adobe and OCR software.

The next printer I buy will be a Canon that prints bigger photos.