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It's a good thing I picked up a 1GB CF card recently because I suspect I'll be shooting everything in the highest quality (megapixel) mode on my Canon S1 if I think I'll be printing the shots out on photo paper. I will have to try out 5x7s one of these days, but as I'm now loaded up with the blank 4圆s, it'll have to be a special occasion to print anything larger. Checked the ink level, and I have barely made a dent in the ink levels after printing 15 4圆s, and 3 8.5x11s and the misc. I am pretty impressed with the ink consumption of this printer. I also bought some cheap 8.5x11 paper (20 sheets for $0.99 during a sale this weekend), but it was cheap for a reason, and didn't produce good results, but I put the blame sorely on the paper (Fry's "GQ" home brand - avoid!) I will be trying some Kirkland (Costco brand) 8.5x11 photo paper in January 2005 because I've heard good things about it as an inexpensive alternative (125 sheets for $19). I don't think you can go wrong with either the Canon or Epson paper. I read to stay away from the Kodak and HP brands for the time being. After testing the paper last night, I went back this morning to Fry's and picked up another 4 packs (needed 2 trips through the checkout lines).
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I tried it out and it works about the same as the Canon Photo Paper Pro sampler pack (easily twice the price if not more) that was included with the printer. Later, I found a nice deal on 100-pack of 4圆 Epson Preminum Glossy Photo Paper for $8.99 (limit 2) at Fry's today (sale goes on until 12/21/04. So far, not regretting the purchase at all. Doh! Once you make that mistake twice, you probably won't make it again. I also hit the print button when the paper selection was defaulted to letter size when the 4圆 photo paper was being used, so there's lots of wasted ink in the ink trough now.
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I need more photo paper, blew through the 5-count sampler pretty quickly.
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Then, I discovered the Canon Easy-print software that allows you to crop the photos to maintain the 1.5:1 Aspect Ratio, and gets rid of the white borders on the sides, but you lose a little on the top and bottom. Too bad I was farting around, printing from IRView when I was going through some digital photos, because my photo's aspect ratio was 1.333:1, while the photo print's aspect ratio is 1.5:1, so I was either stretching to fill the 4圆 photo, or wound up with some white borders on the left/right edges of the prints. The software also took some time, but so far, smooth sailing.
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It took a while to get all the pieces installed, but not too bad. Well, it's up and running, and the photos are pretty nice. That pushed me towards the iP4000 over the iP3000. The deciding factor for me was that I was able to take advantage of a deal on Best Buy's website to get the Canon iP4000 for $120 + tax (local pickup), and there was also a $30 gift card send-away offer to bring the effective price down to around $97 for me. Well, the extra black ink cartridge of the iP4000 also piques my interest because I have read that the 4-ink iP3000 might produce black areas with less photo-fidelity than the iP4000 which has the extra photo-black cartridge, so I do have to factor that in the comparisons. I was considering either the Canon iP3000 or iP4000: These are the comments I posted elsewhere about the Canon iP4000 that I bought a week ago: