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I have been a Canon fan for over 4 years. My previous pinter was a BJC-6000. It was awesome...but the BJC-8200 is so much nicer...especially with color gradation. I will admit that the 8200 didn't print the colors as I expected but with some color matching using Adobe Photoshop it is now tweaked to perfection. The output is amazing...even under magnification. Nice and quiet, too. It is also very conservative on ink consumption and the 6 individual ink tanks make it very nice for printing a bunch of prints with a high percentage of one color (close-up of a bright yellow tulip). Just replace the yellow tank when it gets low instead of throwing away three colors with most other printers. Buy it!

This Canon BJS-8200 is an excellent printer with lots of nice features than other popular brands.

Pro: 1) most importantly, it prints excellent quality pictures 2) 6 separate ink tanks really make the operation cheaper, and it consumes very little ink. 3) the see-through ink tank is also a good idea, you know which color has consumed most so you can purchase a spare in advance. 4) better resolution, 1200x1200 dpi (1.44 dots/sq-inch), in comparison to 1440x720 dpi (1.0368 dots/sq-inch) in others 5) with both parallel and USB connection is a plus

Con: 1) maybe a little slow in high quality print mode, but not by alot 2) If I just print 4"x6" pictures, I have to waste all the other area of 8"x11" papers because the software that comes with the printer does not let you print multiple pictures on one sheet of paper. High quality photo paper is still expensive - althought the price has came down alot recently, so I want to layout multiple pictures of different sizes on one sheet of paper to be printed (I heard HP printer comes with software to let you layout the pictures on a 8"x11" paper).

After trying many other printers from 99.99 up to 299.99, and most of the time feeling ripped off after trying it and it not performing as expected, and purchasing expensive ink carts. I found this Canon BJC8200. I can say now that I feel I have a fine all around printer excellent text, excellent photo, six seperate ink carts. no longer will I be forced to purchase an expensive cartrige because I ran out of one color, at around 8.00 each I don't mind replacing the ones needed for my BJC8200. This is not a fast printer, if you are looking for quality like I was then purchase a Canon BJC8200, its worth the short wait.

Just received the printer last week, and all I can say is WOW. Amazing quality. Using the Canon Photo Paper Pro paper, you get amazing detail. The pictures look like they came from a developer. I printed an 11.5 by 7 picture that I took on my Olympus 3000 picture and it came beautifully. My friends didn't believe that I printed it myself. They all thought I had order an enlargement.

The 6 individual tanks are a great concept. When I run out of one color, just replace that color. This should save a lot of money in the long run.

The box contains a bonus card read for memory cards and a package of Canon Pro Paper. The card read works perfectly. I used it to copy my pictures from my camera to the computer (just as good as the SansDisk reader).

The speed is a little slow, but is made up for in the quality. Plus, a cable to connect to a computer is not included. Luckily, I had a spare parallel cable hanging around (not sure how much that effected the printing speed). In the mean time, I ordered an USB cable from Amazon, which should help a little.

Let's be honest. An inkjet printer will NOT take the place of a trusty 35mm print. But for everyone out there who loves to play with the pictures and crop, cut, and do everything to a picture just to get that right "look", there's just something downright addictive with digital phtography. I tried a Hewlett Packard, and while I had good success with them before in the laser department, their 970Cse had some severe driver problems. Canon is more known for their cameras than printers, but so far the BJC-8200 has been more reliable and less crash prone. Now, let's be reasonable. When you work with images that are up to 100Mb in size with a humble stock desktop, trying to print them out is asking for trouble. Nevertheless, I found the image quality on glossy photo paper, not bad at all. Comparable to a real photograph. (after 6 cups of coffee and aiming the camera with my eyes closed-but no worse than most digital photos) Plain paper quality is no better or worse than a sub $200 inkjet, so find what your needs are before you consider one of these. One final thing I liked about this is the 6 seperate ink catridges for 6 colors. Most other color inkjet printers only work with 4 colors and 3 of them are in one cartridge. Which means if you run low on one color, you have to buy a whole new cartridge, whereas you only have to buy individual color cartridges for the Canon. Of course you can just refill the cartridge with special inkjet refill kits, but using one sometimes voids a printers warranty. The 6 colors should in theory give a better image, but I didn't really notice any improvement. I'm just glad it works.