Canon Pixma iP4500

Pros: Print Speed, duplex printing, photo prints are great...PRICE

Cons: Paper size limited to letter... but it prints full 8x10 photos. No flash card slots..but who cares, it's connected to a PC!!

Summary: Why a 10 rating? Because it does just what it was designed for and just what I was looking for. I was planning on investing in two printers...one for text documents and the other for photos. However, this printer does both...extremely well.

Print Speed - compared to other photo printers...this printer is FAST!. The iP4500 has a seperate black ink cartridge that is used for text printing...and prints text at a lower resolution(but still laser quality) in order to increase speed. I can get a full letter size page in 2 seconds. 4x6 photos in about 40 seconds when set to "Best" quality.

Photo Quality - I printed 36 photos at my nearest Walgreens the day before I purchased this printer. The next day I printed the same pics on the Canon iP4500. The print quality is the same. The only way I could tell which was which was by the watermark on the back of the photo paper.

Duplex Printing - this feature was a must for me. Why waste paper....I print a lot of multi-page documents (emails) and I get tired of wasting paper. The printer also prints on two sided photo paper without swearing the print.

PRICE - It's hard to believe this printer is less than $150!! I bought mine on sale for $99.