Customer Reviews

Canon PIXMA MP810 All-in-One Photo Printer (1453B002)

5 star:		(35)
4 star:		(19)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

While I have only had this photo printer a very short time, I can already say that it is impressive.

I have never seen this good of print quality.

The 4800x4800 scanner delivered a beautiful 8x10 print from a 35mm negative with no adjustments or computer assistance. The copies were quick and faithful.
I am truly pleased to have purchased this MP810.

I did have some trouble installing the software from the driver cd. For some reason the installation would stall at various points and after 11 or 12 tries it finally installed completely. The drivers themselves work fine.

I have owned several photo printers and used Kodak dye sublimation printers. This high resolution printer simply beats all of my previous experiences.

The printer is Quiet and fast. The scanner is fast and incredibly sharp. Plus it has features that I do not even have time to talk about that are truly amazing. Too many good things to say about it.

If you have 35mm slides that you want to turn into 4x6 prints, then this is the machine for you. I just printed some 53 year old 35mm slides as 4x6 prints and was very surprised at the quality of the colors and clarity of the prints. The Fade Restoration option is great for some of those slides that need a little "extra". The fact that you don't even need a computer to get started is a big plus. Of course, you do get a lot more versatility with the computer software, but if you just want quality prints from film, slides, cameras, etc. without the hassle of loading up software, this is great!
Con - it is a bit on the bulky side, so make sure you have enough room to set it up. I have mine on a card table so that I have more room to lay out the slides I want to print.
I give it a "thumbs up".

After reading reviews at Amazon and elsewhere and seeing the product in the store, the MP810 became my choice. Now I'm the winner!!

I can't give this printer 10 stars and I'd like to. Printed photos from my digital camera are exquisite and vivid with great definition and depth. Love the separate color cartridges as my granddaughter often wears pink. Using the maintenance ink check, after 15 full coverage 8x10 sheets, the magenta cartridge was down 1/4 and the rest were still at the full mark. I've reproduced my husband's business card on card stock using a PDF format and he couldn't be happier. The 9 pt. font is clear and sharp. Printed maps from the internet are equally clear and sharp. Printing on both sides is so practical for reports and stored records.

The scanned photos easily popped up into Photoshop CS and look great printed. 4x6 borderless are a snap and beautiful. Usually I wait 24 hrs. to place photos in an album, but I believe these are fully dry much sooner. Printed text included my 1040 and other reports in small fonts. Couldn't be happier with the printed text (though I noted other reviewers comments to the contrary).

The film/slide scanner is the main feature for choosing this printer over the others. Last year I paid a local camera store $250 to scan 150 slides that were 60 years old. I am preparing another iPhoto book using more of the 60 year-old slides as well as old and new family photos.

Though it is a larger footprint than the HP AIO it replaced, the MP810 looks sophisticated and runs very smoothly (do unlock the scanning bed when you are setting it up). It was an easy set-up out of the box. The screen on the printer is easy to use. Our somewhat elderly digital camera will soon be replaced, but in the meantime the SmartMedia card it uses works just fine in this printer.

This is an awesome, A+ printer. Skipped the fax feature as a requirement since the old HP AIO still faxes OK as a stand alone. You will not regret owning and having fun with this beautiful, many-featured workhorse.

After doing much research, and doing a side-by-side comparison of the Canon All-in-One Printers (Pixma MP830, Pixma MP600, Pixma MP510), the Epson All-in-One Printers, and the HP All-in-One Printers, I can say with complete confidence that Canon's Pixma line is easily the top of the grouping. The Epson and HP came no where close to the quality of the Canon's, especially when comparing copying onto everyday use paper.
However, I purchased the MP810 sight unseen. None of the Big Boxes in my area had it available. I purchased it from Crutchfield.com and I was very happy with their service, and definitely with the speed with which they shipped. I received the printer a week before I received other items I had purchased from Amazon.com on the same order.
After having played around with it for over 3wks, I am absolutely delighted with it. The PhotoStudio program that comes with it is easy to learn, and has wonderful features. Yes, the 35mm neg scanning is slow, however, since I can preview each of the negatives before committing to a scan, I can speed up the process by not including the negatives that I have no interest in. Also, I have used other more expensive scanners for 35mm neg scanning, and the MP810 is no slouch in the quality of the scan. Well worth the wait, in fact.
My husband, who is an artist, and very, very picky, has been very impressed with the print quality. Now he says that we need a new camera! I printed a picture of textured sand taken at the beach, and you can see the grains of sand!
The only draw back I can see, is that the MP Navigator program stinks. In fact, I have removed the shortcut from my desktop so that I don't accidentally use it....

After much research, I bought this printer about 6 weeks ago. I have a Canon Rebel XT camera and wanted a printer that would print great photos as well as scan 35mm slides and negatives. So far everything more than lives up to my expectations! I really like this printer and I've had a lot of experience with printers both at home and at work. I am an artist and planned to use the camera to take photos of possible subjects for paintings and print them as a reference. I also use it as a way of keeping a digital record of all my paintings. I use the printer to scan in small paintings directly, scan in old slides of my paintings, take photos of paintings in progress, and to scan in old color negatives to use as reference material. The only problem I had was figuring out how to scan in the slides and negatives and save them to my computer - the printer instructions only told you how to print them. However, I looked at the software that came with the printer and immediately was able to figure out how to scan them to the computer and save the images. Because of its versatility, the printer has quickly become an indispensable tool for me as an artist. But don't forget to buy the USB cable which you will need to hook up to your computer!

This is a really nice printer. I had avoided all-in-one types in my search, but the reviews of this in the media and on Amazon were very strong. I had an i960 photo printer before, and this is as good or better. The extended functions are great, especially the negative and slide scanning. That is a big plus as we transition from the old days of film.
Unless you need wide-carriage prints, this is the one.

Got this printer 2 weeks back. Still haven't tested everything, but did scan some old photos and printed some digital prints on 6x4 glossy. The photos are looking awesome and are quite comparable to prints from the photo labs. The print speed is unbelievable, and the ink drys real quick. I used to get my prints from wolf camera, but now, I can get the same quality at home. I still haven't tried scanning in negatives, which is part of the reason why I went for this model. If you don't need the feature to scan negatives and slides, you could save some money and go with the MP600 instead. I am yet to try printing on matte. The scans a looking real good as well. The photo printing software that comes with the printer takes the guessing out of printing and makes it a simple 3 step process quite like the labs. It does have a pic bridge link to print directly from your camera, but I usually edit my photos in ps before printing, but its a nice feature to have to get some quick prints. It also does a good job of copying. My only caveat is with printing documents. The prints are good, don't get me wrong here, but they are not sharp. But since this is primarily a photo printer, I don't have any complains. Overall, I am quite satisfied with this printer.

Pros: A photocentric printer. The photos print surprisingly nice on photo paper. The film negative scanner is fine. I've never scanned a negative before so I have nothing to compare it to. Printer and software are easy to use and install. Lots of features I haven't tried using yet.

Cons: I agree with the previous review - Printing text on regular paper is just ok. HP's do a better job with text. However, the Canon is better than Dell/Lexmark. Printer is gigantic and will make a little table shake.

Other: I had to delete my old printer's software in order to get the scanner to work.

Overall: Great photos, easy to use, average text, wish it weighed a lot less.

Beforing deciding upon the PIXMA MP810, we had an HP all-in-one that was dissapointing. I did a lot of research before buying this printer so as not to be left wanting more once again.
It was difficult for me to finally decide upon this model, because I wanted faxing capabilities, and this all-in-one doesn't have that capability. However, I wanted the ability to convert 35mm slides and negatives to digital more than I wanted the ability to fax.

The printer is solid and sturdy looking. It doesn't have chintzy plastic parts that easily break like the HP model I had before. In order to get the best looking photos, you really do need to pick your paper wisely. I'm not happy with the first batch of paper I bought for it. Also, I printed my first photos from iPhoto without changing the paper settings. It was an amature mistake that resulted in horrifying looking pictures at first - dark with lines down them. I thought I had a defective printer. I called customer service at Canon and they walked me through and made me quickly realize my mistake, and since then, I have been able to print beautiful pictures with ease.

The printer is relatively easy to navigate and set up. I haven't even had to consult my manual to scan slides.

I'll keep this short..

First off this thing still has dozens of features i'm discovering that i've just never encountered on printers. The colors are bright and life like. There is virtually no graininess in prints of hi-res digital photos. But thus far the my favorite thing about this printer... replaceable print head... i've always found that with inkjets, the printer gets retired in little more than a year because the heads clog, leaving me wasting huge amounts of ink on cleaning processes and endless head alignments (btw, this printer does its own alignment). The head, like the inks, is very easy to replace and affordable. The device itself seems very solid and i'm anticipating a very long life out of it.. Grats to Canon on a great little machine.