I just got my Canon 8300 a few weeks ago, and after going through the setup process and calibration processes, have made a few prints of various sizes on different papers. I have to say, I'm very impressed with the image quality, the gamut, and the speed. I am a long time Epson user, including having been sponsored by them for color management and printing workshops, but I finally tired of dealing with the two issues that made me crazy - clogs, and on the newer printers the need to blow out one black ink to be able to use another. Both seemed to me to be things that were rooted in assumptions about printer users that didn't match up with my reality - I don't print high volumes all the time (and I know that if I did the clog problem wouldn't be so bad) and I do print on multiple paper types.
The only thing that I'm not terribly happy about (other than the Canon site's inability to reliably push the PDF user manual to me first try...I always get hangs in the download that force me to have to kill the download and start over and over again) is the cut sheet paper handling. It seems to me that it really requires more than two hands, and I'm only equipped with two...