Canon i560

Although Canon's i series of inkjet printers was soon replaced by the pixma series, I do not regret buying my unit of the i560. For more than a year, it has served me well. I use it with an Apple computer, a Mac G4, and I have printed quite a few photos, some of which I have shown on two exhibitions. On some occasions, my images have turned out a little too dark, but this can be compensated by using the right paper. I got the best result so far with the Konica Minolta Inkjet Paper QP Photo Silky. Before that, I had tried the Canon Photo Paper Pro PR-101, but the surface seems easily vulnerable to dust and scratches. The choice of paper seems critical to this printer, since I have not tried all the brands on the market.

Cheap, additional software available for simple setup of printing, Easy-PhotoPrint, which, although this model is discontinued, has been updated this year, and thereby improved. The noise level is low enough for printing at night when everything is quiet.

Banding when printing photos from Photoshop or .pdf files from Acrobat Reader, but

Not from Canon, but at work, I have used two printers from HP, the Deskjet 1120 C, and CP1700.

The service from Canon was not quite familiar with the Apple system, so I could not try out the advice I had got from them.