Canon S900 Photo Printer

Review Date
November 25, 2003

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Visitors rate this review
4.33 of 5, 6 votes

Reviewed by
Bruce Stenman , Professional

Price Paid
$499.00 at PC Connection

Summary
Very fast but has severe limitations in terms of the quality of print with anything but Canon photo paper. This greatly limits its use as a printer and greatly increases the cost for consumables with its use. Image is very poor with anything but Canon paper and very difficult to color balance.

Strengths
fast - twice as fast as any other high end inket printer.

Weaknesses
Works well only with Canon photo papers; head fail after a few months and with only light usage.

Similar Products Used
Epson 2000 and HP 1200

Customer Service
Poor - having had two print head failures in 5 months of light use, they insist on doing 2 deep cleaning cycles before replacing unit which results in use of a full set of ink.

Review Date
August 27, 2003

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 2 of 5

Used product for
11-20 years

Visitors rate this review
4.50 of 5, 2 votes

Reviewed by
Zarefarid , Professional , from Tabriz,Iran

Price Paid
$425.00 at IRAN

Summary
Oh this printer is so great but its head was die soon. This is unbelivable but in Iran the Canon company did not change printer head with its warranty! I forced to change my own from one of my freind in europe. This kind of service for customers in Iran are very bad our Canon company is decided to got a lot of mony from his customers with its printer hesds. This is intersting but very bad kind of service for user cuntries of canon. If you want to buy a Canon printer it is important to sure about head warranty of your printer in your own contry.

Strengths
It is fast and It has nice output for hi resoloution Photos.

Weaknesses
s900 heads died very soon. And takes my 6 month for changing it with warranty. Witout using warranty I was able to chang it with 200$ buy of our Iranian company Canola.

Review Date
June 14, 2003

Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Value Rating
 2 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Visitors rate this review
2.50 of 5, 2 votes

Reviewed by
Steve Mead , from Beds, UK

Price Paid
$280.00 at Online

Summary
Good and fast but with major flaws.

Strengths
Great quality printing and very fast.

Weaknesses
I do a medium amount of printing and the printer is essential to my business. In 6 months I've had 2 print heads fail. The first time Canon were great and sent me a replacement, the second time they got snotty - demanded I send the entire printer back for 5 days with all ink cartridges in place. They are very clearly going to blame not using extortionate branded ink for the problem (hey Canon, ever heard of the word cartel?). This has nothing to do with it - do an internet search and you will find this fault cropping up time and time again with this printer *be warned*. In conclusion, if you don't mind paying through the nose for a printer that often produces astounding prints, but which will go wrong in time whereupon you will have Canon support staff being very rude to you - go right ahead and get one!

Similar Products Used
none

Review Date
April 26, 2003

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Visitors rate this review
1.00 of 5, 1 votes

Reviewed by
dabramson , from Larchmont

Price Paid
$399.00 at CompUSA

Summary
Best photo printer I have ever had. The heads never jam up with ink. In contrast to the Epson's that I have had in the past, where I they are not used for a week the heads need to be cleaned, I can walk away from this unit for a month on end and the first print out is remarkable.

Strengths
High quality and VERY FAST photo prints

Weaknesses
Ink is a bit expensive & does not work well with all photo papers (at least I have not gotten the settings down pat).

Similar Products Used
Epson photo printers

Review Date
April 2, 2003

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 1 votes

Reviewed by
Brian Nakonechny , from kansas city KS

Price Paid
$399.00 at Comp USA

Summary
This is the worst investment I have ever made I use it aloy (well that is when it is not i the shop) It goes through a print head every 4 weeks, Canons words were to get the extended warranty so iy is covered for an additional 2 years Boy thats a crock, It is in the Canon repair shop again (the 5th time) now it won't recognize the print head is even installed, I am hoping they will exchange it this time as a lemmon, I would prefer to get rid of it completely, Worked great for a month , if you plan to print more than 1 page per day find another printer as its duty cycle is about 25 sheets per month, I have never had such a poor printer,and the worst customer service I have ever heard of.

Strengths
poor fuel economy (all the driving back and forth to the repair depot)

Weaknesses
poorly designed print head that Canon knows about but is trying to cover up

Similar Products Used
My cheap Epson C80 outperforms this Canon because it still works and it is 3 years old no issues