Brilliant color photos, crisp, very good contrast, good on photo paper really like from the photo lab! (Of course, provided a good source (Digi Camera / no compressed JPGs) hold! Cartridges, as with any other printer, whether cheap or extremely expensive, depending on what and how much you print. If you do not need color prints, to the colorful cartridges something to "save", one can before printing in the print settings "Print Grayscale" choose.
The printer as all units "under thousands of euros" is somewhat fragile, (ie not as robust) constructed with its flaps, you should always use it with respect and caution, therefore, he lives long :-)
The printer is worth the money, with us (sometimes print already 30 pages at a time) there was no paper jams or similar, just sometimes I forget the front to open a door that says to me then but a friendly info box on the screen that I was still the must do. Original cartridges of Canon are too expensive for us, but that's what (and good!) Alternatives.