Canon PIXMA MP810 All-in-One Photo Printer (1453B002)

While I have only had this photo printer a very short time, I can already say that it is impressive.

I have never seen this good of print quality.

The 4800x4800 scanner delivered a beautiful 8x10 print from a 35mm negative with no adjustments or computer assistance. The copies were quick and faithful.
I am truly pleased to have purchased this MP810.

I did have some trouble installing the software from the driver cd. For some reason the installation would stall at various points and after 11 or 12 tries it finally installed completely. The drivers themselves work fine.

I have owned several photo printers and used Kodak dye sublimation printers. This high resolution printer simply beats all of my previous experiences.

The printer is Quiet and fast. The scanner is fast and incredibly sharp. Plus it has features that I do not even have time to talk about that are truly amazing. Too many good things to say about it.

If you have 35mm slides that you want to turn into 4x6 prints, then this is the machine for you. I just printed some 53 year old 35mm slides as 4x6 prints and was very surprised at the quality of the colors and clarity of the prints. The Fade Restoration option is great for some of those slides that need a little "extra". The fact that you don't even need a computer to get started is a big plus. Of course, you do get a lot more versatility with the computer software, but if you just want quality prints from film, slides, cameras, etc. without the hassle of loading up software, this is great!
Con - it is a bit on the bulky side, so make sure you have enough room to set it up. I have mine on a card table so that I have more room to lay out the slides I want to print.
I give it a "thumbs up".

I am very pleased with this printer (Canon PIXMA MP810 All-in-One). It was delivered quickly (even at C'mas time). I am not the most computer-savy person but I've been able to operate it (and hooked it up myself!) with ease. It produces good photos, is fairly fast and user friendly. I would consider replacing this with the same model when the time presents itself.

The Canon PIXMA MP810 Photo All-In-One offers a versatile device that can deliver a stunning maximum 9600 x 2400 color dpi, and can produce a photo-lab quality 4 x 6 inch borderless photo in approximately 21 seconds, as well as 8X10 borderless print which will take a little bit longer. Great scanner/copier, very easy to use and setup!! Ink droplets can be as small as one picoliter for razor sharp photos.
It's a bit large on a desktop, but it's worth it.

I'll cut to the chase... this printer is FANTASTIC for amateur photographers and people who want to make prints of both digital and film photos. I purchased this printer (from Crutchfield, through Amazon) over the Canon MP600 solely because of the built-in negative scanning capability and it has not let me down. Yes... if you need ultra high quality negative scanning capability this isn't the machine for you... get a stand-alone negative scanner. But the MP810 does a fantastic job of scanning negatives for the price, and it is an EXCELLENT printer and a very good, albeit slow, scanner. This is the machine you want if you're looking for an all-in-one that can digitize film too. If you don't need that function, get the MP600. Both produce spectacular prints. The only complaint about the MP810: it. is. BIG. But if you've got the desk space, go for it. Works great with a Mac too. I'm very happy with my purchase (and with Crutchfield's service).

After doing much research, and doing a side-by-side comparison of the Canon All-in-One Printers (Pixma MP830, Pixma MP600, Pixma MP510), the Epson All-in-One Printers, and the HP All-in-One Printers, I can say with complete confidence that Canon's Pixma line is easily the top of the grouping. The Epson and HP came no where close to the quality of the Canon's, especially when comparing copying onto everyday use paper.
However, I purchased the MP810 sight unseen. None of the Big Boxes in my area had it available. I purchased it from Crutchfield.com and I was very happy with their service, and definitely with the speed with which they shipped. I received the printer a week before I received other items I had purchased from Amazon.com on the same order.
After having played around with it for over 3wks, I am absolutely delighted with it. The PhotoStudio program that comes with it is easy to learn, and has wonderful features. Yes, the 35mm neg scanning is slow, however, since I can preview each of the negatives before committing to a scan, I can speed up the process by not including the negatives that I have no interest in. Also, I have used other more expensive scanners for 35mm neg scanning, and the MP810 is no slouch in the quality of the scan. Well worth the wait, in fact.
My husband, who is an artist, and very, very picky, has been very impressed with the print quality. Now he says that we need a new camera! I printed a picture of textured sand taken at the beach, and you can see the grains of sand!
The only draw back I can see, is that the MP Navigator program stinks. In fact, I have removed the shortcut from my desktop so that I don't accidentally use it....

I'll keep this short..

First off this thing still has dozens of features i'm discovering that i've just never encountered on printers. The colors are bright and life like. There is virtually no graininess in prints of hi-res digital photos. But thus far the my favorite thing about this printer... replaceable print head... i've always found that with inkjets, the printer gets retired in little more than a year because the heads clog, leaving me wasting huge amounts of ink on cleaning processes and endless head alignments (btw, this printer does its own alignment). The head, like the inks, is very easy to replace and affordable. The device itself seems very solid and i'm anticipating a very long life out of it.. Grats to Canon on a great little machine.

seems to work beautifully, have not used all of the options as yet. P berry

Overlooking the massive size of this printer and the lack of an auto 4x6 tray, this printer is awesome. Very pleased with this purchase.

I replaced a dead Epson and read the reviews on Consumer Report first. I am happy the epson died as I am loving the speed and quality of this new machine. The other printer was 3 years old or so. I have not yet scanned with it or had to replace the ink. The interface is great and the software for printing is easy and straightforward.

One strange thing was they did not include a usb cable in the box. I'm sure it was an oversight. I used the one off of my dead epson.

Great printer and great price.



This is my first multipurpose inkjet printer/scanner /copier. It equals or exceeds my previous HP and Canon printers.

Got this printer 2 weeks back. Still haven't tested everything, but did scan some old photos and printed some digital prints on 6x4 glossy. The photos are looking awesome and are quite comparable to prints from the photo labs. The print speed is unbelievable, and the ink drys real quick. I used to get my prints from wolf camera, but now, I can get the same quality at home. I still haven't tried scanning in negatives, which is part of the reason why I went for this model. If you don't need the feature to scan negatives and slides, you could save some money and go with the MP600 instead. I am yet to try printing on matte. The scans a looking real good as well. The photo printing software that comes with the printer takes the guessing out of printing and makes it a simple 3 step process quite like the labs. It does have a pic bridge link to print directly from your camera, but I usually edit my photos in ps before printing, but its a nice feature to have to get some quick prints. It also does a good job of copying. My only caveat is with printing documents. The prints are good, don't get me wrong here, but they are not sharp. But since this is primarily a photo printer, I don't have any complains. Overall, I am quite satisfied with this printer.

This is a really nice printer. I had avoided all-in-one types in my search, but the reviews of this in the media and on Amazon were very strong. I had an i960 photo printer before, and this is as good or better. The extended functions are great, especially the negative and slide scanning. That is a big plus as we transition from the old days of film.
Unless you need wide-carriage prints, this is the one.

Pros: A photocentric printer. The photos print surprisingly nice on photo paper. The film negative scanner is fine. I've never scanned a negative before so I have nothing to compare it to. Printer and software are easy to use and install. Lots of features I haven't tried using yet.

Cons: I agree with the previous review - Printing text on regular paper is just ok. HP's do a better job with text. However, the Canon is better than Dell/Lexmark. Printer is gigantic and will make a little table shake.

Other: I had to delete my old printer's software in order to get the scanner to work.

Overall: Great photos, easy to use, average text, wish it weighed a lot less.


I have had the printer for about 3 weeks now and used it mainly for color or B/W printing on paper, not photos. I was very impressed with the ease of set up, packaging materials and instructions. Once out of the box, it is substantially built, heavy and has a large footprint. I like the idea that the ink cartridges can be refilled (versus buying new every time).
It is easy to use and very fast. Two paper trays make it more useful and the menu wheel system is simple and easy to use. All in all a very good product. It replaced a fairly new Epson photoprinter that went on the blink and couldnt be fixed my me. After reading the reviews on my Epson printer and the Pixma printers, I decided to give up on the Epson and switch to the Canon. I'm glad I did.


Beforing deciding upon the PIXMA MP810, we had an HP all-in-one that was dissapointing. I did a lot of research before buying this printer so as not to be left wanting more once again.
It was difficult for me to finally decide upon this model, because I wanted faxing capabilities, and this all-in-one doesn't have that capability. However, I wanted the ability to convert 35mm slides and negatives to digital more than I wanted the ability to fax.

The printer is solid and sturdy looking. It doesn't have chintzy plastic parts that easily break like the HP model I had before. In order to get the best looking photos, you really do need to pick your paper wisely. I'm not happy with the first batch of paper I bought for it. Also, I printed my first photos from iPhoto without changing the paper settings. It was an amature mistake that resulted in horrifying looking pictures at first - dark with lines down them. I thought I had a defective printer. I called customer service at Canon and they walked me through and made me quickly realize my mistake, and since then, I have been able to print beautiful pictures with ease.

The printer is relatively easy to navigate and set up. I haven't even had to consult my manual to scan slides.

This is a great product. I got it over the 600 because I wanted to scan negatives and slides, and overall have been quite pleased with the quality. - Patrick Jonas

In general, I love my new Canon MP810. I've been looking for a way to scan in hundreds of my old color slides for years. I even tried Kinkos; their response was we don't do that! Can you believe it?

When I saw that this scanner did not only slides, but film negatives (35mm) also, I had to get it. I am currently scanning slides as I have time. I wondered about the quality from comments of earlier Canon scanners, but the pictures from these slides are clear and undistorted. I am very happy with this feature.

Another feature I love is duplix printing (printing on both sides of the paper). Multipage documents come out nicely arranged for stapeling (sorted and collated).

I have not yet tried printing a photo. I have to say the one thing I would mark down on this printer is the slow drying ink. The manual says a photo should dry for 30 minutes before you do anything with it - 24 hours is even better. My old printer was an Epson. When the Epson printed a photo, it was ready for use in a minute. I could put a multiphoto sheet into my cutter immediately to separate the pictures.

In general though, I highly recommend the MP810.

I bought this all-in-one printer on March 15th. I had spent quite a lot of time online searching for a really good printer (because of all the photos we both take and restore) that was truly compatible with Microsoft Vista. I had already discovered from our old printer (a HP 1700) that "compatible" only meant that SOME stuff worked. In our case, we couldn't adjust any colors. I went to a lot of different printer makers for info on various models but no one wanted to talk about Vista! Instead, the line was to go to Microsoft.
When I found this Canon printer and went to Canon, I was pleasantly surprised. They actually had a section on Vista! They said that in order to use all of the features, I would have to download 4 small programs and install them after installing the disk. It turned out to be a snap and everything works....well, I still haven't tried the FAX, but that wasn't why I bought it in the first place.
Last night, my husband was working in Microsoft Office and I needed to copy some stuff off. He was amazed that he could continue working while I copied (scanned & printed) my stuff, very quickly too.
Since we got this, I have printed dozens and dozens of pictures, most being 8 x 10s. The quality is outstanding. For anyone looking for a really good printer that REALLY works with Vista, this is it!

After reading reviews at Amazon and elsewhere and seeing the product in the store, the MP810 became my choice. Now I'm the winner!!

I can't give this printer 10 stars and I'd like to. Printed photos from my digital camera are exquisite and vivid with great definition and depth. Love the separate color cartridges as my granddaughter often wears pink. Using the maintenance ink check, after 15 full coverage 8x10 sheets, the magenta cartridge was down 1/4 and the rest were still at the full mark. I've reproduced my husband's business card on card stock using a PDF format and he couldn't be happier. The 9 pt. font is clear and sharp. Printed maps from the internet are equally clear and sharp. Printing on both sides is so practical for reports and stored records.

The scanned photos easily popped up into Photoshop CS and look great printed. 4x6 borderless are a snap and beautiful. Usually I wait 24 hrs. to place photos in an album, but I believe these are fully dry much sooner. Printed text included my 1040 and other reports in small fonts. Couldn't be happier with the printed text (though I noted other reviewers comments to the contrary).

The film/slide scanner is the main feature for choosing this printer over the others. Last year I paid a local camera store $250 to scan 150 slides that were 60 years old. I am preparing another iPhoto book using more of the 60 year-old slides as well as old and new family photos.

Though it is a larger footprint than the HP AIO it replaced, the MP810 looks sophisticated and runs very smoothly (do unlock the scanning bed when you are setting it up). It was an easy set-up out of the box. The screen on the printer is easy to use. Our somewhat elderly digital camera will soon be replaced, but in the meantime the SmartMedia card it uses works just fine in this printer.

This is an awesome, A+ printer. Skipped the fax feature as a requirement since the old HP AIO still faxes OK as a stand alone. You will not regret owning and having fun with this beautiful, many-featured workhorse.

After much research, I bought this printer about 6 weeks ago. I have a Canon Rebel XT camera and wanted a printer that would print great photos as well as scan 35mm slides and negatives. So far everything more than lives up to my expectations! I really like this printer and I've had a lot of experience with printers both at home and at work. I am an artist and planned to use the camera to take photos of possible subjects for paintings and print them as a reference. I also use it as a way of keeping a digital record of all my paintings. I use the printer to scan in small paintings directly, scan in old slides of my paintings, take photos of paintings in progress, and to scan in old color negatives to use as reference material. The only problem I had was figuring out how to scan in the slides and negatives and save them to my computer - the printer instructions only told you how to print them. However, I looked at the software that came with the printer and immediately was able to figure out how to scan them to the computer and save the images. Because of its versatility, the printer has quickly become an indispensable tool for me as an artist. But don't forget to buy the USB cable which you will need to hook up to your computer!

I am sold on Canon printers and scanners. I will never buy anything but a Canon. I had a i960 printer and a LiDE 80 scanner that I really liked, so I was nervous about changing them to something else. I decided to try the Pixma MP810 and found that it works even better then the ones I had. I'm very happy with my MP810. Good work Canon.

The print quality is awesome. Very fast to print and scan. Had a little issue with the Epson driver on my Mac conflicting with the new Canon driver. Canon customer support was very efficient and helpful and had the problem resolved in about 5 minutes.

I'm very happy with my purchase of the canon pixma mp810 all in one photo printer. I haven't had much time to play with it yet. I did print a few photos and I need to play with the color scheme a bit. The skin color looked a bit yellow but I think once I get a hang of the menu options that it will be easy to correct. For the price, I think it does a very excellent job. The size of the printer is big but I like having a copier/scanner/printer all in one unit. The text printing also has very high quality out put. It doesn't look blurry. I had tried the mp950 which was replaced by the mp960 but I had an error right out of the box plus the mp950 was way more expensive. I've had no problems or menu errors with the mp810. I give the canon pixma mp810 all-in-one photo printer two thumbs up!

I bought this all in one to replace my aging HP Desk Jet 970cse printer and HP Scanjet 6200C scanner, both of which were excellent, but both of which were beginning to be pretty iffy, functionally.

It looks nice, and while quite large, closes up into a nice looking package when not being used...

Scan quality is about 7 on a scale of 10 compared to the HP unit, but it's slide scanning capability is FAR better... So while it was a little disappointing for general scan quality and high resolution detail, its still quite a nice unit for the money...

Similar situation comparing it's printing capability to the HP model it replaced... It's plain paper prints look quite nice, whether they're of printed matter, or prints of high resolution images, either from a camera or from the scanner... But the color images, for whatever reason, when printed on glossy paper are MUCH darker... I think I need to do some more homework on this, regarding performance with different glossy papers, and the capability to calibrate the printer to my flat-panel LCD display (or vice-versa).

Still, overall, the Canon is an excellent printer/scanner for the money...

It is almost worth the price just for the far better slide scanning capability, compared to the HP, even though the HP delivers better overall results (though it had begun to develop problems, which led to my replacing it - same with the HP scanner; excellent high resolution scans, but intermittent functionality had set in).



I bought this all in one to replace my aging HP Desk Jet 970cse printer and HP Scanjet 6200C scanner, both of which were excellent, but both of which were beginning to be pretty iffy, functionally.

It looks nice, and while quite large, closes up into a nice looking package when not being used...

Scan quality is about 7 on a scale of 10 compared to the HP unit, but it's slide scanning capability is FAR better... So while it was a little disappointing for general scan quality and high resolution detail, its still quite a nice unit for the money...

Similar situation comparing it's printing capability to the HP model it replaced... It's plain paper prints look quite nice, whether they're of printed matter, or prints of high resolution images, either from a camera or from the scanner... But the color images, for whatever reason, when printed on glossy paper are MUCH darker... I think I need to do some more homework on this, regarding performance with different glossy papers, and the capability to calibrate the printer to my flat-panel LCD display (or vice-versa).

Still, overall, the Canon is an excellent printer/scanner for the money...

It is almost worth the price just for the far better slide scanning capability, compared to the HP, even though the HP delivers better overall results (though it had begun to develop problems, which led to my replacing it - same with the HP scanner; excellent high resolution scans, but intermittent functionality had set in).



I'm very happy with my purchase of the canon pixma mp810 all in one photo printer. I haven't had much time to play with it yet. I did print a few photos and I need to play with the color scheme a bit. The skin color looked a bit yellow but I think once I get a hang of the menu options that it will be easy to correct. For the price, I think it does a very excellent job. The size of the printer is big but I like having a copier/scanner/printer all in one unit. The text printing also has very high quality out put. It doesn't look blurry. I had tried the mp950 which was replaced by the mp960 but I had an error right out of the box plus the mp950 was way more expensive. I've had no problems or menu errors with the mp810. I give the canon pixma mp810 all-in-one photo printer two thumbs up!

I am sold on Canon printers and scanners. I will never buy anything but a Canon. I had a i960 printer and a LiDE 80 scanner that I really liked, so I was nervous about changing them to something else. I decided to try the Pixma MP810 and found that it works even better then the ones I had. I'm very happy with my MP810. Good work Canon.

The print quality is awesome. Very fast to print and scan. Had a little issue with the Epson driver on my Mac conflicting with the new Canon driver. Canon customer support was very efficient and helpful and had the problem resolved in about 5 minutes.

After much research, I bought this printer about 6 weeks ago. I have a Canon Rebel XT camera and wanted a printer that would print great photos as well as scan 35mm slides and negatives. So far everything more than lives up to my expectations! I really like this printer and I've had a lot of experience with printers both at home and at work. I am an artist and planned to use the camera to take photos of possible subjects for paintings and print them as a reference. I also use it as a way of keeping a digital record of all my paintings. I use the printer to scan in small paintings directly, scan in old slides of my paintings, take photos of paintings in progress, and to scan in old color negatives to use as reference material. The only problem I had was figuring out how to scan in the slides and negatives and save them to my computer - the printer instructions only told you how to print them. However, I looked at the software that came with the printer and immediately was able to figure out how to scan them to the computer and save the images. Because of its versatility, the printer has quickly become an indispensable tool for me as an artist. But don't forget to buy the USB cable which you will need to hook up to your computer!

After reading reviews at Amazon and elsewhere and seeing the product in the store, the MP810 became my choice. Now I'm the winner!!

I can't give this printer 10 stars and I'd like to. Printed photos from my digital camera are exquisite and vivid with great definition and depth. Love the separate color cartridges as my granddaughter often wears pink. Using the maintenance ink check, after 15 full coverage 8x10 sheets, the magenta cartridge was down 1/4 and the rest were still at the full mark. I've reproduced my husband's business card on card stock using a PDF format and he couldn't be happier. The 9 pt. font is clear and sharp. Printed maps from the internet are equally clear and sharp. Printing on both sides is so practical for reports and stored records.

The scanned photos easily popped up into Photoshop CS and look great printed. 4x6 borderless are a snap and beautiful. Usually I wait 24 hrs. to place photos in an album, but I believe these are fully dry much sooner. Printed text included my 1040 and other reports in small fonts. Couldn't be happier with the printed text (though I noted other reviewers comments to the contrary).

The film/slide scanner is the main feature for choosing this printer over the others. Last year I paid a local camera store $250 to scan 150 slides that were 60 years old. I am preparing another iPhoto book using more of the 60 year-old slides as well as old and new family photos.

Though it is a larger footprint than the HP AIO it replaced, the MP810 looks sophisticated and runs very smoothly (do unlock the scanning bed when you are setting it up). It was an easy set-up out of the box. The screen on the printer is easy to use. Our somewhat elderly digital camera will soon be replaced, but in the meantime the SmartMedia card it uses works just fine in this printer.

This is an awesome, A+ printer. Skipped the fax feature as a requirement since the old HP AIO still faxes OK as a stand alone. You will not regret owning and having fun with this beautiful, many-featured workhorse.

I bought this all-in-one printer on March 15th. I had spent quite a lot of time online searching for a really good printer (because of all the photos we both take and restore) that was truly compatible with Microsoft Vista. I had already discovered from our old printer (a HP 1700) that "compatible" only meant that SOME stuff worked. In our case, we couldn't adjust any colors. I went to a lot of different printer makers for info on various models but no one wanted to talk about Vista! Instead, the line was to go to Microsoft.
When I found this Canon printer and went to Canon, I was pleasantly surprised. They actually had a section on Vista! They said that in order to use all of the features, I would have to download 4 small programs and install them after installing the disk. It turned out to be a snap and everything works....well, I still haven't tried the FAX, but that wasn't why I bought it in the first place.
Last night, my husband was working in Microsoft Office and I needed to copy some stuff off. He was amazed that he could continue working while I copied (scanned & printed) my stuff, very quickly too.
Since we got this, I have printed dozens and dozens of pictures, most being 8 x 10s. The quality is outstanding. For anyone looking for a really good printer that REALLY works with Vista, this is it!

This is a great product. I got it over the 600 because I wanted to scan negatives and slides, and overall have been quite pleased with the quality. - Patrick Jonas

In general, I love my new Canon MP810. I've been looking for a way to scan in hundreds of my old color slides for years. I even tried Kinkos; their response was we don't do that! Can you believe it?

When I saw that this scanner did not only slides, but film negatives (35mm) also, I had to get it. I am currently scanning slides as I have time. I wondered about the quality from comments of earlier Canon scanners, but the pictures from these slides are clear and undistorted. I am very happy with this feature.

Another feature I love is duplix printing (printing on both sides of the paper). Multipage documents come out nicely arranged for stapeling (sorted and collated).

I have not yet tried printing a photo. I have to say the one thing I would mark down on this printer is the slow drying ink. The manual says a photo should dry for 30 minutes before you do anything with it - 24 hours is even better. My old printer was an Epson. When the Epson printed a photo, it was ready for use in a minute. I could put a multiphoto sheet into my cutter immediately to separate the pictures.

In general though, I highly recommend the MP810.

Beforing deciding upon the PIXMA MP810, we had an HP all-in-one that was dissapointing. I did a lot of research before buying this printer so as not to be left wanting more once again.
It was difficult for me to finally decide upon this model, because I wanted faxing capabilities, and this all-in-one doesn't have that capability. However, I wanted the ability to convert 35mm slides and negatives to digital more than I wanted the ability to fax.

The printer is solid and sturdy looking. It doesn't have chintzy plastic parts that easily break like the HP model I had before. In order to get the best looking photos, you really do need to pick your paper wisely. I'm not happy with the first batch of paper I bought for it. Also, I printed my first photos from iPhoto without changing the paper settings. It was an amature mistake that resulted in horrifying looking pictures at first - dark with lines down them. I thought I had a defective printer. I called customer service at Canon and they walked me through and made me quickly realize my mistake, and since then, I have been able to print beautiful pictures with ease.

The printer is relatively easy to navigate and set up. I haven't even had to consult my manual to scan slides.

I have had the printer for about 3 weeks now and used it mainly for color or B/W printing on paper, not photos. I was very impressed with the ease of set up, packaging materials and instructions. Once out of the box, it is substantially built, heavy and has a large footprint. I like the idea that the ink cartridges can be refilled (versus buying new every time).
It is easy to use and very fast. Two paper trays make it more useful and the menu wheel system is simple and easy to use. All in all a very good product. It replaced a fairly new Epson photoprinter that went on the blink and couldnt be fixed my me. After reading the reviews on my Epson printer and the Pixma printers, I decided to give up on the Epson and switch to the Canon. I'm glad I did.


This is a really nice printer. I had avoided all-in-one types in my search, but the reviews of this in the media and on Amazon were very strong. I had an i960 photo printer before, and this is as good or better. The extended functions are great, especially the negative and slide scanning. That is a big plus as we transition from the old days of film.
Unless you need wide-carriage prints, this is the one.

Pros: A photocentric printer. The photos print surprisingly nice on photo paper. The film negative scanner is fine. I've never scanned a negative before so I have nothing to compare it to. Printer and software are easy to use and install. Lots of features I haven't tried using yet.

Cons: I agree with the previous review - Printing text on regular paper is just ok. HP's do a better job with text. However, the Canon is better than Dell/Lexmark. Printer is gigantic and will make a little table shake.

Other: I had to delete my old printer's software in order to get the scanner to work.

Overall: Great photos, easy to use, average text, wish it weighed a lot less.


Got this printer 2 weeks back. Still haven't tested everything, but did scan some old photos and printed some digital prints on 6x4 glossy. The photos are looking awesome and are quite comparable to prints from the photo labs. The print speed is unbelievable, and the ink drys real quick. I used to get my prints from wolf camera, but now, I can get the same quality at home. I still haven't tried scanning in negatives, which is part of the reason why I went for this model. If you don't need the feature to scan negatives and slides, you could save some money and go with the MP600 instead. I am yet to try printing on matte. The scans a looking real good as well. The photo printing software that comes with the printer takes the guessing out of printing and makes it a simple 3 step process quite like the labs. It does have a pic bridge link to print directly from your camera, but I usually edit my photos in ps before printing, but its a nice feature to have to get some quick prints. It also does a good job of copying. My only caveat is with printing documents. The prints are good, don't get me wrong here, but they are not sharp. But since this is primarily a photo printer, I don't have any complains. Overall, I am quite satisfied with this printer.

This is my first multipurpose inkjet printer/scanner /copier. It equals or exceeds my previous HP and Canon printers.

I replaced a dead Epson and read the reviews on Consumer Report first. I am happy the epson died as I am loving the speed and quality of this new machine. The other printer was 3 years old or so. I have not yet scanned with it or had to replace the ink. The interface is great and the software for printing is easy and straightforward.

One strange thing was they did not include a usb cable in the box. I'm sure it was an oversight. I used the one off of my dead epson.

Great printer and great price.



seems to work beautifully, have not used all of the options as yet. P berry

Overlooking the massive size of this printer and the lack of an auto 4x6 tray, this printer is awesome. Very pleased with this purchase.

I'll keep this short..

First off this thing still has dozens of features i'm discovering that i've just never encountered on printers. The colors are bright and life like. There is virtually no graininess in prints of hi-res digital photos. But thus far the my favorite thing about this printer... replaceable print head... i've always found that with inkjets, the printer gets retired in little more than a year because the heads clog, leaving me wasting huge amounts of ink on cleaning processes and endless head alignments (btw, this printer does its own alignment). The head, like the inks, is very easy to replace and affordable. The device itself seems very solid and i'm anticipating a very long life out of it.. Grats to Canon on a great little machine.

After doing much research, and doing a side-by-side comparison of the Canon All-in-One Printers (Pixma MP830, Pixma MP600, Pixma MP510), the Epson All-in-One Printers, and the HP All-in-One Printers, I can say with complete confidence that Canon's Pixma line is easily the top of the grouping. The Epson and HP came no where close to the quality of the Canon's, especially when comparing copying onto everyday use paper.
However, I purchased the MP810 sight unseen. None of the Big Boxes in my area had it available. I purchased it from Crutchfield.com and I was very happy with their service, and definitely with the speed with which they shipped. I received the printer a week before I received other items I had purchased from Amazon.com on the same order.
After having played around with it for over 3wks, I am absolutely delighted with it. The PhotoStudio program that comes with it is easy to learn, and has wonderful features. Yes, the 35mm neg scanning is slow, however, since I can preview each of the negatives before committing to a scan, I can speed up the process by not including the negatives that I have no interest in. Also, I have used other more expensive scanners for 35mm neg scanning, and the MP810 is no slouch in the quality of the scan. Well worth the wait, in fact.
My husband, who is an artist, and very, very picky, has been very impressed with the print quality. Now he says that we need a new camera! I printed a picture of textured sand taken at the beach, and you can see the grains of sand!
The only draw back I can see, is that the MP Navigator program stinks. In fact, I have removed the shortcut from my desktop so that I don't accidentally use it....

The Canon PIXMA MP810 Photo All-In-One offers a versatile device that can deliver a stunning maximum 9600 x 2400 color dpi, and can produce a photo-lab quality 4 x 6 inch borderless photo in approximately 21 seconds, as well as 8X10 borderless print which will take a little bit longer. Great scanner/copier, very easy to use and setup!! Ink droplets can be as small as one picoliter for razor sharp photos.
It's a bit large on a desktop, but it's worth it.

I'll cut to the chase... this printer is FANTASTIC for amateur photographers and people who want to make prints of both digital and film photos. I purchased this printer (from Crutchfield, through Amazon) over the Canon MP600 solely because of the built-in negative scanning capability and it has not let me down. Yes... if you need ultra high quality negative scanning capability this isn't the machine for you... get a stand-alone negative scanner. But the MP810 does a fantastic job of scanning negatives for the price, and it is an EXCELLENT printer and a very good, albeit slow, scanner. This is the machine you want if you're looking for an all-in-one that can digitize film too. If you don't need that function, get the MP600. Both produce spectacular prints. The only complaint about the MP810: it. is. BIG. But if you've got the desk space, go for it. Works great with a Mac too. I'm very happy with my purchase (and with Crutchfield's service).

I am very pleased with this printer (Canon PIXMA MP810 All-in-One). It was delivered quickly (even at C'mas time). I am not the most computer-savy person but I've been able to operate it (and hooked it up myself!) with ease. It produces good photos, is fairly fast and user friendly. I would consider replacing this with the same model when the time presents itself.

If you have 35mm slides that you want to turn into 4x6 prints, then this is the machine for you. I just printed some 53 year old 35mm slides as 4x6 prints and was very surprised at the quality of the colors and clarity of the prints. The Fade Restoration option is great for some of those slides that need a little "extra". The fact that you don't even need a computer to get started is a big plus. Of course, you do get a lot more versatility with the computer software, but if you just want quality prints from film, slides, cameras, etc. without the hassle of loading up software, this is great!
Con - it is a bit on the bulky side, so make sure you have enough room to set it up. I have mine on a card table so that I have more room to lay out the slides I want to print.
I give it a "thumbs up".

While I have only had this photo printer a very short time, I can already say that it is impressive.

I have never seen this good of print quality.

The 4800x4800 scanner delivered a beautiful 8x10 print from a 35mm negative with no adjustments or computer assistance. The copies were quick and faithful.
I am truly pleased to have purchased this MP810.

I did have some trouble installing the software from the driver cd. For some reason the installation would stall at various points and after 11 or 12 tries it finally installed completely. The drivers themselves work fine.

I have owned several photo printers and used Kodak dye sublimation printers. This high resolution printer simply beats all of my previous experiences.

The printer is Quiet and fast. The scanner is fast and incredibly sharp. Plus it has features that I do not even have time to talk about that are truly amazing. Too many good things to say about it.