84 of 85 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent all-purpose printer, April 5, 2002
This review is from: Canon S750 Color Bubble Jet Printer (Office Product)
This printer is incredibly fast. Text pages literally come popping out. Color graphics take a little longer. Very sharp black text. Decent graphics on plain paper. Excellent photos on cheap bargain glossy photo paper. I haven't tried Canon photo paper pro yet. Easy to set up and use. I especially like the auto-power feature - the printer turns on when it's needed and turns off X minutes later (this needs to be set up in the printer properties).
Also, very important, Canon support in the past has been outstanding. I once had a problem with my Canon scanner, and after 10 minutes on the phone with them, they over-nighted me a replacement scanner. All I had to do was to put my old scanner in the box and call UPS for a pick-up. All shipping was paid by Canon, didn't cost me one dime.
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47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent printer for the photos..., April 12, 2002
This review is from: Canon S750 Color Bubble Jet Printer (Office Product)
Last week I was debating between the Canon S750, HP 1115, and [other printers]. This is my first color printer and I planned to use it solely for photo printing. I have an HP ... that has not broken down for 7 years. Based on that reliability and quality, I was leaning towards HP. However, based on online pro reviews, [other printer] was tops among the three. I based my decision for selecting Canon on the following:
(1) Affordability
- This is the best [$] color photo printer out there that has separate ink cartridges and at 2400 x 1200 DPI. When you buy one, it comes with 4 FULL color ink cartridges. At first I thought Canon would put inks that are only 50% full as a sample like others. The one I got had the full cartridges and I was not dissappointed with the performance (see below). In addition, you can buy a refill kit. The best one out there is by Stratitec. Right now, they only sell to [retail store]. I hope Amazon carries them soon. Too bad there is no USB cable, but you can easily buy one for [$]... More on affordability. If the printer head breaks down, you can buy the printer head cartridge that is replaceable. I'm not worried for I paid for the 3-yr no hassle warranty. By that time, I should have enough money to pay for a dye sublimation printer. But again if this does not die like my 4L, then there's no need to replace
(2) Photo Quality
- I was amazed at the quality of the photos I printed. I tried different settings. After 8 trials of different settings and photo paper, I finally got the best combination out of the printer. Yes it is true that the ink will rub off if you rub hard enough or drop glue in it. But it is the same with ANY photo inkjet. Even the high end Canon inkjet photo printer also rubs off and their sharpness is identical to the best setting for Canon S750. Why spend ]$] to [$] more on high end photo printer? If you want studio quality just buy the [low cost] non-inkjet photo printer.
(3) Performance
- This is the biggest surprise. In my first night, I printed 24 (yes twenty four) 7" x 9" high quality photos and 3 4x6 high quality photos. Believe me, I am worried of running out of ink that I keep monitoring the ink level on each print using Canon's software. After the 24th print, I thought the printer might be defective or the software buggy for the ink levels still show that there is still about 90% left of the magenta and black, 95% of the cyan and yellow. The photos I have printed were 50% pink, 20% black, %10 yellow, 5% green, and 15% other colors. I was expecting magenta to be way low. But when I physically checked the ink level on the printer. Wow! it is indeed still around 90%. I think I hit a jackpot on this one. In my calculations, my cost per 4x6 print is around 12 cents (5 cents for the ink and 7 cents for using the high quality Kodak Photo paper). Dont believe the hype about using Canon paper. The high end Kodak worked better than the sample glossy papers Canon provided. More on performance. This printer is FAST. It's 7x9 photo is faster than my 10 year old dot matrix when that prints a full page of text.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brochures I printed are gorgeous!, May 21, 2002
This review is from: Canon S750 Color Bubble Jet Printer (Office Product)
I own a medical transcription service and after talking to Kinko's (outrageous prices) and local printers for a brochure run of 500, I decided to follow advice of friends who own a Canon S600 and purchase the S750 (for the price of a run of 500 brochures) and print my own. The results are fantastic. I get to change the text, pictures, and layout after printing just one and don't have to run back to the printer or Kinko's. After printing 500 double-sided 8 1/2 x 11 brochures with color printing plus lots of black and color borders on both sides with three photographs, the software is just now telling me it is low on black ink and cyan. And all I have to do is replace those tanks not the WHOLE THING. I now have plans to do postcards, business cards, and flyers. I am delighted with the product and its performance and I am delighted with Canon customer service who even went as far as helping me enable the USB ports on my computer. Recommended--highly.
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