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4.5 stars
"Awesome printer, especially for such a low price"
Pros: Very fast compared to my previous printer (an HP 3600), also more silent and has good print quality
Cons: No paper output tray, shiny plastic will get scratched if you wipe it hard with tissue paper in an attempt to remove the dust it magically attracts (I speak from experience)!
Summary: I really like this printer, I leave it on fast mode all the time and the quality is good enough for printing school assignments. It prints quickly, I've never had a paper jam, and when doing manual duplexing it hardly ever sucks up two papers at once (as compared to my previous printer, an HP 3600 that used to suck up two pages every time I duplex, thus ruining the entire document every time...). What I don't like is that it takes it a while to print the very first page right after you turn it on (it spends a lot of time cleaning and turning the rollers and I don't know what else), and I've noticed that if you're trying to print a document with both colour and black and white text, while in normal quality mode, it uses the colour cartridge for the entire page, so the black text comes out dark brown not black. Obviously this also wastes the colour cartridge unnecessarily. This problem is easily solved - if you switch the quality to "fast", it uses the black cartridge for black and the colour cartridge for colour (ironic, the document actually ends up looking better in "fast" mode than in "normal" mode because of this).
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Canon PIXMA iP1800:
$134.95
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