Canon i9950 Review

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Canon i9950
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fatowl's Review of Canon i9950 Inkjet Printer

22nd Sep 2007

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    3 stars
  • Ink Consumption
    Average
  • Ease of Set Up
    1.5 stars
  • Time Inkjet Printer Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Print Quality
    5 stars
Good Points

Prints good quality and fast photographs up to A3. Uses 8 colour ink cartridges to provide excellent colour reproduction. As the facility to print directly on to CD/DVD's. Provides confirmation of current ink status, easy to replace one ink cartridge when it runs out.


Bad Points

Had a problem when it came out of the box it would not work, problems with the set up, it had to be returned to Canon for repair. The return p&p I had to pay for, not cheap for an A3 printer. The ink cartridges are only 13ml and can run out very quickly when you are using it quite often. Not cheap to replace the 8 cartridges with Canon's own inks.


General Comments

On the whole not a bad printer, it would be nice to find a company who could supply a continuous ink system for this printer at a reasonable price. I have spoken to various people regarding the use of third party inks in the printer, and I have been advised that this could be a bad thing, because it can damage the printer heads, but this is a decision you can only make. At the time I enquired, new printer heads were approximately £50.00, not sure how long these would last with the third party inks compared to Canon's, but the savings you make overall could well cover the price of a new head.

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  • fatowl Rank: 2nd Lieutenant on 9th Feb 2009

    I have now had this printer for quite sometime, and it has been a complete nightmare. The computer keeps showing a paper jam malfunction, even though there is nothing jammed.

    The printer will let you print out anything from 1 to 6 sheets, (usually 1) before it shows jamming again. I cannot get any help from the Canon website, after spending ages looking. It looks like I will have to pay the £35.00 p&p to send it back again for another repair.

  • fatowl Rank: 2nd Lieutenant on 10th Feb 2009

    Just an update since I submitted my last comment. I have just received several quotes from various sites for the repair to be carried out. The price varies from £150.00 to £190.00. All in all, this printer will have cost me in excess of £730.00 to date, annoying considering mine has had only light use.