yeah I've had some prints made and they are real nice... actually had a full page printed (what, 8x12?) and it looked spectacular... I dunno, I actually got an SD400 (same size as SD550) and returned it because the thing was too flippin small... I like something with a little more bulk, but it still fits in my pockets fine, so what if it sticks out a bit, at least it doesn't feel like its going to snap in half or fall out at any moment... and the flip screen so it doesn't scratch/break... plus there is so much more you can do with the A620 its wasnt even a competition... FOR ME THOUGH, I wanted more than a point and shoot, something I could grow on... if you read up on it, it really has a lot of cool little things you can do (like color replacement, giving different shooting priorities, etc)... and as far as the manual settings go, just play around... go to the manual mode (where i spend most my time) and just play around... thats all I did... I was no grand master photographer, I just read what buttons let me change what things and played around to see what everything did... change one thing, take a picture, see how it changed the picture... but then i did a little reading as well, but you dont have to... all in all I'm very happy with my A620 and its my take everywhere camera, now I'm saving up to get a 350D as well as I've started to grow as a photographer...
-bazzel