Read more.With auto power on/off. In a range of RRPs from £44 to £79.
Read more.With auto power on/off. In a range of RRPs from £44 to £79.
"My Image Garden" ... Ugh. "My Lady Garden"...
PIXMA range is quite well respected though, although I haven't seen recent comparative reviews (including cost of printing) for a very long time for printers.
Hmm, I have fond memories of the Pixma (iP5200R) that I had - it just sat there and worked with the minimum of fuss (right up until the network card went funny). Best of all - unlike the HP that replaced it - the old Canon could print directly onto CD/DVD - I really miss that ability.
Agree with the point about Canon's software suite - it was a mess. To be honest I ended up ignoring most of it.
Interesting - my folks are after a new all-in-one, having previously owned an iP4500. £79 isn't bad for the top of the range. I guess the inks will be helluh expensive...
I find their ink lasts much longer than Epson etc. I have two canon printers now and really like them compared to the epsons I used to have.
Home Entertainment =Epson TW9400, Denon AVRX6300H, Panasonic DPUB450EBK 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray and Monitor Audio Silver RX 7.0, Monitor Audio CT265IDC(x4) Dolby Atmos and XTZ 12.17 Sub - (Config 7.1.4)
My System=Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 7 Wi-Fi, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Patriot 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz, 1TB WD_Black SN770, 1TB Koxia nvme, MSI RTX4070Ti Gaming X TRIO, Enermax Supernova G6 850W, Lian LI Lancool 3, 2x QHD 27in Monitors. Denon AVR1700H & Wharfedale DX-2 5.1 Sound
Home Server 2/HTPC - Ryzen 5 3600, Asus Strix B450, 16GB Ram, EVGA GT1030 SC, 2x 2TB Cruscial SSD, Corsair TX550, Plex Server & Nvidia Shield Pro 4K
Diskstation/HTPC - Synology DS1821+ 16GB Ram - 10Gbe NIC with 45TB & Synology DS1821+ 8GB Ram - 10Gbe NIC with 14TB & Synology DS920+ 9TB
Portable=Microsoft Surface Pro 4, Huawei M5 10" & HP Omen 15 laptop
How about a printer comparative review on the near future? This, with printers from the very low end budget nature up to prosumer level, that is, which would encompass a rather wide range of users.
Canon has terrible Linux driver support. In that they don't support them at all. HP / Epson have their own Linux drivers at least.
Canon inks are pricey. The quality is pretty good but the prices are going up which I think is the problem given that they normally have shelf life of a few years.
Crossy they are pricey if bought individually. Staples have a buy one get 2nd for 25% off the second and Amazon occasionally do good deals on multi-pack purchases. Only relevant if you print a lot. I tend to get mine from here.
Budget ones would look like an okay purchase (I'm assuming it will be 2 tanks) provided you don't need to have colour in order to print black text.
Last edited by pp05; 11-08-2012 at 02:57 AM.
I found Epson inks to be even more expensive.
I agree with you - Staples are a good source for "deal" prices, then again if you've got a printer that uses common carts/tanks you can also get some superb deals from supermarkets. Plus - keep your "empties" and if you're a Staples loyalty card holder (although maybe it's also available to non-card holders) and you'll get £1 off. I made a lot of use of that because my Pixma "tanks" weren't accepted at any of the recyclers I tried.
I also tried a budget black tank once, and was sorely unimpressed with the quality. At the moment I get a pretty good deal on "proper" carts, so there's no real incentive to try others.
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