Small, fast, perfect pictures.
This printer was easy to set up. The software that comes with it makes printing soo much easier as it has a built in layout program to do various sizes, corrections and cropping. Allows you to do borderless or bordered pictures. The colors are perfectly printed. When I used my Epson 1270, I never got perfect color matching. The Canon i860 delivers fast, clean, acurate pictures. I am very impressed with this affordable printer. It has 5 cartridges so that you only replace the ones that you need for far less money then replacing the color cartridge in other printers at $50.00. The Canon replacement cartridges are about $11.50 and you only replace the ones you use up. I recommend buying the 2.0 fast speed usb cable as this printer uses that technology for it's super fast printing. Took about 25 seconds to print a 4" x 6" photo. Load up the images you want to print in it's software program, clik one button and it prints all your pictures at one time. Super fast, Super Brilliant colors and the inks dry very fast. I replaced my $600. overrated Epson printer with this one. I made a great choice. I used my left over Epson photo paper on this printer and they print just as nice as the Canon paper. No need to buy special paper in my opinion. Epson's ink never dried and ink would bleed on to the backs of other photo's when you stacked them together and forget about putting them into a photo album, they would get stuck to the plastic. The Canon prints that I created with this printer came out of the printer dry. The inks do not stink like the Epson inks and I cannot say enough positive things about this printer. I wish it could print bigger prints but I chose the smaller model. Otherwise, this printer gets the thumbs up. Go and buy it, you won't really find anything bad about it. If you own a Canon digital camera, you can print from the camera to the printer using the plug in option in the front of the printer. Great Value, Awesome results. You will be satisfied.

Great Printer At A Great Price
If you are looking for a printer that can print photo-store quality prints quickly, quietly...AND print high-quality text...then look no further...The low cost, separate (and relatively inexpensive) ink tanks, and separate black ink for text are just an added bonus!

I spent months looking and shopping around, and finally settled on the i860 after going to a store and testing the printers side-by-side. True, at the highest photo quality, a lot of these printers will look alike...but after "looking under the hood," I decided the Canon was the way to go...Here is the skinny:

"Top Ten Reasons To Buy This Printer"
(1) Great photo quality prints in a jiffy (some say like 43 seconds, but it seems faster);
(2) Quiet (it almost whispers);
(3) Good print quality on regular text/regular paper;
(4) Easy to set-up, and the documentation is excellent (took me less than 10 minutes);
(5) Fantastic software package that comes with the unit...try the "Easy Web Print" and I guarantee that you won't be disappointed;
(6) Ink tanks are separate (meaning you don't have to replace a whole 3, 4 or 5 color tank when one color runs out) and relatively inexpensive;
(7) The paper that works best with the printer is made by Canon, which is also relatively inexpensive;
(8) Their customer support is phenominal (I had one small issue that turned out to have nothing to do with the printer itself), and their support staff not only knew what they were doing, but I didn't have to hold for an hour;
(9) It's very moderately priced; and
(10) True borderless printing (no perforated paper).

"Top Six Reasons Not To Buy This Printer" (can't think of 10!)
(1) Maximum print size is 8 1/2 x 11. If you like to print posters, find another printer;
(2) No LCD screen, so the printer needs to be controlled from the computer (or Camera if you have PhotoBridge on your camera) and you cannot review pictures on the printer before you print;
(3) No USB or Parallel cable in the box (why not, I ask?);
(4) Photo quality prints do not look great on other papers besides Canon;
(5) It's really big;
(6) The 4x6 paper try is a tad bit awkward;

I hope this helps!

Professional looking pics!!!!!
I am absolutely amazed and impressed with the i860. Canon includes all the ink and a few sheets of their photo paper pro so that you can print out photos from the get go. I gave it a whirl and not only was it simple, the photos came out looking like processed film photos! I was so excited I showed them to my husband and he agreed, even on the lowest setting for standard photo prints, the prints looked awesome!

The camera I am currently using is the Fuji Finepix S3000. Excellent camera, that takes excellent photos. The end result used in conjuction with this printer is professional looking photos.

Beyond photo printing, regular printing is awesome too. I used cheap paper from Walmart to print out everyday stuff and it looks great. I haven't had it long enough to know how quickly the ink will go, but the ink cartridges for this are very cheap in comparison to others, plus with individual tanks, you only replace the color that is empty. Plus, there are also many different remanufactured cartridges out there for this printer, so you can get ink very cheaply.

I would recommend this printer to ANYONE I know. I really am enjoying it and am always looking for things to print!!!!