Canon PIXMA MP830 Multifunction Printer - 0583B002
Canon PIXMA MP830 Office-All-In-One Color Inkjet Printer

I wanted a copier/fax and the reviews and price of this Canon seemed to fit what I wanted. However, it comes with a 217 page manual! After two hours I discovered this manual covers features that I do not plan to use (heavy on photo printing). I also had problems hooking up the fax option (took hours and call to my telephone provider). Overall, the machine delivers copies, scans, and prints from my PC to my satisfaction.
 
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Price couldn't be beat, delivery was quick, and product is excellent. The printer was easy to set up and simple to use. Picture quality is the best I've seen and speed of printing is quick.
 
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I bought this to replace a HP all in one. The print speed and quality are excellent but my main reason for buying was the duplex scanner. I had considered buying a stand alone scanner but for the price I figured this was worth a try. So far I am very satisfied. Scanning speed is good and two-sided scanning works well.
 
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Got just what I expected and for a nice price. Print quality seems very good, scanning quality is as good as I have seen. I certainly would recommend it to others. The setup was easy and so far everything has worked well.
 
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This printer does what you want when you want, and is inexpensive to operate. It has a replaceable print head which is nice- when you think your printer is dead, you can replace the head and it's like new. It does double sided copies and faxes with document feeder or scanner platen. It has a bottom loading paper cartridge and a rear feed (with a quick, easy switch)so you can keep checks in one and plain paper in the other. The quality is very good for what I do, photos could be a little better if I messed around with the settings. I have burned through several HP's and Epsons and I like this one best. I have 2 home printers and 6 business printers and I now have 4 MP830's (where all-in-ones are needed)and the rest will be replaced with Canons that take the same ink cartridge but don't need the other functions. My observations of two big brands: -HP: Very reliable, but expensive ink. Ink cartridges each essentially have a built in print head. Every time you change a cartridge you get fresh, new-printer quality. BUT, at a cost, the cartridges are very expensive, and many of their models combine all 3 colors of ink into one cartridge, which adds even more cost - here's how: I do landscape designs which take large amounts of yellow and cyan ink (lots of green graphics). When one of those colors runs out, I have to throw away the whole cartridge which is usually still nearly full of magenta. The Canon has 5 (FIVE) ink tanks: 3 colors, a black for graphics and a hi-capacity black for text. I only pay for the ink that I use. Epson: Fast, inexpensive printers and ink, individual color tanks. BUT: print head is built in to the printer, and it doesn't last long. I consider Epsons to be disposable. They also bug me because you can hit the cancel button to stop printing, and they just keep going, sometimes 3-4 more pages. If you stop it in control panel or turn off the printer, it will continue where it left off when you turn it back on, ANNOYING! Hopefully the MP830 stays on the market for a while because it is a really nice printer.
 
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Bought this multifunction two weeks ago and am very happy with the performance and the price. Upgraded from another Canon printer that has been an outstanding piece of equipment (love the seperate ink carts for economy). Was easy to set up on my XP machine and the print speed is fantastic. Scanner is easy to use and copy function is very handy for business and home use. Photo print quality is VERY nice even though I don't use it that much because of ink expense. Haven't had the need to use FAX yet but don't expect any problem if I do. Overall, I would say Buy This Machine! Product and delivery time (3 days from placing order until it was at my door) are Excellent. I have bought from Buy.Com before and will again. Customer service is top-notch and the price is right.
 
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The printer works very well.It prints clean, crisp images and produces similar quality images from scanning. The autofeed is grand, and for a non-commercial copier/scanner holds a good stack of paper and produces quality documents. The software that comes with it, as per usual, is in need of sprucing up and has a very windows 95 or windows 98 feel to it. The feature of sending an image directly to email has produced uselessly small images that auto attach to my email and I have not yet found the setting to change this. It is a superfluous feature considering you can just scan the image and then attach it yourself, but if you are looking for quality programming to come with the printer, you may not want to get your hopes up too high.
 
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I have had Canon printers before and I have absolutely loved them. My last printer was a multi-pass F50 and was a great work horse. When deciding to upgrade, I looked at HP, Lexmark, and Canon. For home use and printing pictures this printer seemed to have just a little better resolution than the competition. The set up was easy, and I am very happy with it. I have a really nice camera to go along with it. I have the Canon Rebel XT. When printing pictures on this new printer you really get your money's worth. The pictures look just as good as if you took them to Walmart and had them printed. I would recommend this printer for anyone looking for a nice home use all in one printer wanting to do some occasional home printing of pictures. Thanks Canon for yet another great product!
 
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The initial print cartridges did not seem to last long. But the replacements (OEM from Canon) lasted much longer. I was at first surprised because Consumer Reports magazine rates this as an "inexpensive to use" ink jet printer. The functionality is superb; faxes, scanner, copies, printing. The only fault I found was the constant iritatting warning of "low ink levels" - you really don't know when they will run out, and when they do the printer will just stop until you replace that ink cartridge.
 
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