Canon BJC-8200 Photo

Printing your digital photographs at home doesn't come cheap. Canon has done its best to cut down on waste by storing the six inks used by its BJC-8200 Photo printer in separate tanks within the print head, so you don't have to replace the whole lot when one runs out. But at £10.56 per tank, it still works out expensive.

The other cost you have to take into account is paper. To get anywhere near photographic quality output you have to use special glossy paper, which is thicker than normal. This costs around £1 per A4 sheet. On this basis, printing out 24 6x4in pictures will set you back £8, without adding ink costs.

The other drawback with photo-quality printing is speed. But we managed to print out 0.7ppm, which is faster than Canon's claimed speed of 0.31ppm. Print speeds rise if you decrease quality, so you can churn out pages at over 2ppm for draft text or colour.

Output quality on photo paper was impressive, with realistic skin tones that are notoriously tricky for printers to reproduce. Our only complaint was that some colours looked a bit washed out.

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