Canon printers

[khall]

What is the best canon photo printer for around 2 hundred pounds, that will print to A4 size with good quality?????

[ianess]

Why do you want to spend that amount of money?
I have a Canon Pixma scanner/copier/printer that cost me much less than half of �200 and suits me just fine.
Shop around....there are lots of deals out there.

[fo3nix]

Also, any reason that it must be Canon? Epson make some great printers, and many would say they're better than a similarly-priced Canon model.

[wideboy]

As fo3nix says, look at Epson - especially the R220. - good quality and it can print on CDs and DVDs and take (cheaper) compatible cartridges. Some magazines, however, are rating some of the Canons quite highly (and some can print on CDs as well).

Happy hunting!

[mattfox]

I'd go with Epson any day! I have the R200 (slightly older model of the R220 mentioned above) and it is superb quality.

As for online shops, check out www.dabs.com and www.ebuyer.com...

[JohnLIreland]

I had an Epsom CX5200. After the first black cartdidge change the print quality deteriorated drastically. I eventually got some quality back when the yellow ran out. I changed all 3 colour cartridges, as the other 2 were low, and now it won't print a thing! I tried all the cleaning operations but no joy.

Searching the web, it seems to be a common thing with Epsoms. They don't like not being used and the print heads dry up and block. I've found a maintenance manual for them and it's a major surgery operation to get at them so I've dumped it and bought an HP C4180 yesterday for about �100. I had an HP before and it never gave me any print problems but its software seemed to be heavy on memory and crash my system, but that was back in the days of Win '95 so I'm giving them another go.

So be warned. Magazine tests don't take in to account long-term performance. So even though it was a great printer to start with, �70 worth of colour cartridges later and it's now scrap - and so are the cartridges.