Canon Pixma iP1800 Photo Inkjet Printer (1855B002)

After a horrible experience trying to buy a printer on eBay, in desperation to get a printer I went to Office Depot, where the clerk recommended this printer. He said, "Don't be fooled by the price, it has won awards." I bought it (would have bought it on Amazon, but I had already wasted a week on the printer that only worked on PCs), took it home and hooked it up to my Mac without problems, and immediately ran off 218 pages with the little ink cartridge that came with it. I truly believe that the less tasks a machine performs, the better it does the job you buy it for. This printer just prints, it doesn't scan, it doesn't fax. It works on both PCs AND Macs. And it does it beautifully and inexpensively.

very good pictures and fast printing but could use a paper tray when printing more than one or two sheets.

This is a decent printer. It is possible to get it unbelievably cheap if you look around for refurbed ones.

The picture quality is absolutely acceptable, and I didn't find it too noisy. It's a little slow (about 1 minute per 4x6 in high quality mode) but for the price, what can one expect?

It does use a lot of ink, so I'll have to see what the final print costs end up being - but Canon has the cheapest 4x6 glossy photopaper I could find (unless you find some noname brand) - and they are among the most reasonable on ink cartridges as well.

I think regardless of printer, it is probably better to print most your pictures at a store these days, but for emergencies and maybe large size prints as well, this printer does the trick.

I replaced my Canon Pixma 6000D (with six expensive ink jets)with this nice utility printer. The quality of the photos with the iP1800 are high quality enough for family snapshots. And, I like the separate color and black cartridge so I can save on ink by just printing basic documents in "grayscale." My son says the Canon cartridges are cheaper than HP. Big negative: No tray to catch the paper when it prints out. The printer just "spits" out the pages, which makes it almost impossible to keep large documents in the correct page order unless you babysit the printer.

Don't buy it even though it's gotten some decent reviews and only cost $49. I've owned nothing but Canon's for the past 6 years--S450, S600, & S750 and they were very good printers while they lasted. The print head eventually seems to go bad on all of them and they stop printing correctly. But this ip1800 is in a different league altogether. It's noisey, it doesn't feed paper straight, it burns through ink incredibly fast, and the print quality is not as good as the aformentioned. Don't waste your money. I just took mine out to the trash and it still worked. I didn't even want to give it to somebody.