New inkjet printer?

[Rik]

How's the print quality, or haven't you got that far?

[Noreen]

I've only printed the Head Alignment sheets so far. The daft printed instructions tell you to do that before you install the driver or the online manual, the result being that I printed out the two sheets as instructed without having any idea if they were OK or not as they are only explained in the online manual. The printed instructions also say that problems will result in the warning light flashing but of course you don't know which is the warning light until you install the online manual and to press certain buttons but you don't know which they are either.

[Rik]

Typical modern installation.

[Noreen]

I've now tried the nozzle check pattern and some basic printing, all seems to be fine. I've yet to try some high quality colour printing.

[Rik]

Go for it, you know you want to.

[Noreen]

Do I need to use Canon photo paper, Rik?

[Rik]

I do, Noreen, in my experience the combination of ink/paper from the manufacturer will get the best results, and Canon colour management is based on that. However, you should get reasonable results with other makes, albeit with colour shifts - you'll just have to tweak the driver more.

[Noreen]

I always found it best to use Epson photo paper and card with my old Epson printer. So I'll probably wait until I get some Canon paper. I need to learn more about this printer anyway. Of course when I bought my Epson printer THEY supplied some of their paper and card with it.

[Rik]

I think it varies according to the promotions on at the time.

[Noreen]

Rik, I haven't yet registered the printer with Canon, should I? Is there any benefit to me?

[Rik]

No real advantage, Noreen, you get the warranty either way. OTOH, they do have quite a good photographic newsletter so I did.

[Noreen]

Just printed out a full colour photograph of garden flowers, didn't specify anything except high quality and the use of matt photo paper as I don't really know enough about the settings yet. Anyway I was very pleased with result other than (as stated in some reviews) that there is a very slight yellowish tint. I imagine that the settings could compensate for that in some way. I haven't yet bought any Canon paper, just used one of the sheets supplied for testing. The printer is very quiet in use.

[Rik]

Glad you're happy, Noreen. I use the Canon profiles with their paper and get no casts.

[Inactive]

I've just received my order of 4 sets of cartridges for my Brother multi function at 99p per cartridge.  Good quality cartridges, and great service.  Only drawback is they now keep spamming me, despite unsubscribing.

Got mine as well Simon, 9 out of the 12 were actually Inkrite Cartridges, ( brilliant ) they must have been priced incorrectly, I aint complaining... 

[Gary]

I'm still using my cannon IP5000 Noreen, works great with the cannon paper and no casts, I was worried when I got the new pc if it would work with vista, it was literally plug the usb in and off you go, installed the correct drivers perfectly 

[Noreen]

I checked that it worked with Vista before I bought it, Gary. Still haven't got round to buying any Canon paper yet.

From the specifications

Supported Operating System     
Windows Vista / Windows XP SP1, SP2 / Windows 2000 Professional SP2, SP3, SP4
Mac OS X v.10.2.8 - v.10.4

[Inactive]

Good luck with your new printer Noreen, sadly I have had 2 Canon Printers fail on me, one was replaced under warranty, the other went to the recycling dump.

In fairness, while they were working, they gave good results.

[Sebby]

Maybe it's just you, In?

[Inactive]

Maybe it's just you, In?

..Who moi?

Just bad luck I suspect, some people have Canon Printers for years without problems.