I purchased this unit as a stand alone photo printer. Setup was basically; take it out of the box, plug it in, place the ink cartridge, turn it on and follow the on screen prompts. That's it. It is small enough to be portable, and it's camera independent with a USB port, and a couple of different card slots. It does what I needed it to do.

I am an avid scrapbooker and serious about my photos and their quality. These far exceed anything I get from printing at any retailer. My friend, who also scraps, agrees that this is top of the line. Just received mine today and I am already in love with it. Awesome.

This is alot of value for the money. Five years ago a printer like this would have be $1000 easily.

I bought this for my wife on Christmas. The first impression is that its like a mini print kiosk. So you could set it up in an office, on a kitchen counter or in a family room and it would look right at home. She had prints coming out within about 10 minutes of powering it up. And the quality of the those pictures are more then enough for the average person. We used the advanced paper that turned out fine glossy prints of similiar quality to those my wife makes at the kodak print kiosks at the store.

The entire unit is stand alone so you can set up shop anywhere that is close to a power outlet. No problems what so every so far with the unit. It has a very easy to use touch screen that makes it quick at finding the picture, touch the screen and print. The advanced features are pretty easy to figure out. She started putting the built-in and selectable holiday season borders on and altering the brightness to name a few options. All without having to refer to the manuals. For the price its an exception piece of engineering. The only caveat is that this is all from an initial quality perspective. Lets see how it holds up to my wifes demands.

I received this as a birthday gift and absolutely love it. It is a little expensive but I think it is well worth the money. The pictures have excellent quality and it is extremely user-friendly, even for someone like me who can barely put paper in a printer. I turned it on without reading the directions and it told me to insert the ink cartridge and the paper. I didn't even know where to start so I pushed the button on the screen that said "show me how" and it did and made it so easy. I have already printed so many pictures and love it!

*UPDATE*
I have now owned this printer for a while and I still think it is by far the best photo printer I have ever used. I actually just used it to print out all my Christmas cards and was able to use the printer to crop the photo i wanted, add a caption, and put a frame on the photo...all on the printer. I will say there is one con and that is that the clip art selection is very limited, but I don't see myself wanting to add clip art to my photos that often so it's really not a big deal.

I'm no professional photographer...I just had some family pics to print out. This thing was crazy easy to use. Crazy easy. Great quality.