Out of the box, followed instructions, a couple of quick observations:

* Installation instructions good.
* No problems installing software on XP.
* During installation, printer hums to itself quite a bit, doing who
knows what.
* I could get rich selling Canon the shipping tape you have to pull
off the thing during setup.
* Alignment sheet does not print yellow boxes??? I thought there was
a problem, but the nozzle check prints yellow, and a document with
yellow text prints yellow, so I guess this is on purpose? It would be
nice if the installation manual showed what the sheets look like.
* Text colors on screen in word matched up pretty well with my old
HP722, they print VERY DIFFERENTLY on this i550 - greens and blacks
print very darkly, on Avery Vivid White inkjet paper, normal mode.
* Text quality looks fine.

J.

"JXStern" <JXSternChangeX2R@gte.net> wrote in message
news:3itrgvgp5deg0nn5qq44dok5bsu2ihn73o@4ax.com...
Try and print a colour pie chart from Excel or similar, mine printed in
black and white! Had to download the latest drivers for XP in order to solve
it.

JXStern wrote:
enable quiet running full time. the paper runs through slower to be
quieter.
--
Ian Lincoln Independent I.T Consultant

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:50:04 GMT, "Deathwalker"
<ian-lincoln@blueyonder.co.ukspam> wrote:
I'll try it, I'm not in a huge hurry, but on the other hand, the
violent paper feed is fun, too. The "quiet mode" is a cute feature.

So is the auto-power, but they neglect to give any recommendations on
its use! I see Just Another Joe recommends the auto-on, 10-minute off
as a setting.

Great features and no documentation, the curse of modernity!

J.

I set mine for half an hour. 10 minutes is too frequent. Being a photoshop
fanatic there can be easily 20 mins between prints. I don't think stop
starts do any device any good. If i know i'm going to use my pc again in
the day i won't switch it off just set all the power save stuff on monitor
and hard disk. those are set half hour and hour as well.