The good news is that black fonts print very sharply and clearly. This isn’t a laser printer, but from a distance, its prints are competitive with a laser printer. Under a magnifying glass there’s a bit of bleed visible, so that crispness is something of an illusion. Still, that’s probably good enough for most applications.
Colors, particularly on printed photographs, weren’t as overwhelmingly beautiful as I’d hoped, given the performance I’ve seen with other Canon Pixma printers. First, photo colors looked almost grainy and lacked the vividness I’ve come to expect even with many all-in-one printers which, of course, are not first and foremost aimed at printing photos. Under the magnifying glass, they were even less impressive.