Canon Printer Reviews

"If the printer needs to be light and compact, but still offer good quality output in a reasonable time, constraints on its design are much tighter...The PIXMA iP100 is just such a portable printer and can be used with an optional lithium ion battery, well away from the mains...This printer is about the size of one and a half Xboxes laid on their sides and is all decked out in silver, apart from black cheeks at either end and a black bar across its top, bearing the Canon logo...Software supplied with the PIXMA iP100 is Canon's usual mix of simple, task-based programs, such as Easy-PhotoPrint and Solution Menu..." read more »

"If Darth Vader was buying a photo printer, the £70 Pixma iP3600 would be near the top of his shortlist...Lift up the iP3600’s lid and you’ll find the print head with spaces for five separate ink tanks – black, photo black, cyan, magenta and yellow – all of which click easily into place...The iP3600 uses Canon’s ChromaLife 100+ technology, which promises that your prints will last for over 300 years when placed in an album, or 30 years under glass when used with compatible photo paper..." read more »

"The Canon imagePROGRAF iPF710 36" large format printer produces vibrant full-bleed posters, clear text documents and crisp line drawings easily and quickly...The imagePROGRAF iPF710 features a Reactive Ink system consisting of four highly colorfast dye inks - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black - plus two channels of pigment-based Matte Black...The iPF710 has on-board support for HP-GL/2 and HP RTL files and prints on a variety of media...Ideal for architects and engineers, businesses and schools, the iPF710 is the premier printing solution for any professional with a need for creating, processing and printing complex full-color presentations, signs, posters, renderings, CAD drawings, GIS maps and other large-format graphics quickly, effortlessly, and with remarkable detail...Ideal for technical applications, Canon's breakthrough 5-color dye/pigment Reactive Ink technology utilizes four highly colorfast dye inks for producing bold, expressive color plus two channels of matte black ink for printing precise lines, smooth curves and small text on technical and office documents...PosterArtist 2007 provides an Auto Design feature in which the users can simply designate a few images to be incorporated in a poster, and PosterArtist will automatically create professional-looking posters for immediate use..." read more »

"The iX7000 is for offices, claims Canon, and its chief office credential is its price...The iX7000 has a CMYK, five-ink system, with an extra black for printing text, and costs £56 to refill...In isolation our prints were fine, but compared to those from the Pro9000 Mark II the iX7000 produced less accurate colours - skintones appeared warmer and less natural...If you regularly print marketing materials or colour proofs, the iX7000 is ideal..." read more »

"Reasonably fast...Low initial price and reasonably low cost per photo...Photos are water and scratch resistant....Photos show slight soft-focus effect...Lines on an angle (as with spokes on a bicycle wheel) can print...The Canon Selphy CP780 Compact Photo Printer ($99.99 direct) is the latest incarnation of a basic design that Canon's been selling for years: a highly portable small-format dedicated photo printer, built around a thermal-dye print engine...Although..." read more »

"If that’s the case, why is there a PictBridge socket, so you can download from a camera...Semi-pros might prefer to use it for proofing than end product, but it would also be suitable for print-on-demand applications, like sending wedding guests away with photos on the day of the big event...To accommodate this, a flap at the rear is folded down and two spring-loaded butterfly supports are extended..." read more »

"Crystal clear text quality > Beautiful photo printing...Very reasonably priced > No big advances on the iP4600...It isn't as feature-rich as some of its rivals, but it boasts auto-Duplex for doublesided printing, PictBridge for printing pictures directly from your camera, and it can print directly onto optical discs using the supplied CD LabelPrint application (Preview doesn't seem to line them up correctly...The text quality offered by the iP4700 is..." read more »

"Rapid prints; excellent photo quality; simple design; inexpensive....Large footprint (including paper path) for a "compact" printer; wireless accessories not included; no...The CP760 is Canon's latest addition to their Selphy line of portable photo printers...We had a lot of fun testing out the CP760, snapping quick pics and printing them for our friends...The CP760 is clearly much smaller than the average inkjet printer since it doesn't print on regular sheets..." read more »

"We find the ES3's peculiar mechanism, where print blanks are fed out from the cartridge through a slot near the bottom of the printer, rotated through 90 degrees and then fed back in a total of four times to build up the colour photo image, is quite long-winded...The end product, however, is completely dry and ready to view and the level of detail in the 600 x 300dpi images excellent...One of the potentially most attractive features of the ES3, but one we couldn't evaluate, is printing in silver and gold...Although we were impressed with the initial release of the Selphy ES1, the ES3 is not quite so appealing..." read more »

"Easy Setup, Easy To Use Large Footprint Faster and easier to use than expected...About 50% faster than the spec sheet.Still rather slow but a fair trade off for the quality!! Very quiet! Still on the learning curve for more advanced options...Has a reasonable idiot/ auto print..." read more »