Canon Pixma iP1500 Photo Printer

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Summary: Don't let the price fool you
Review: A local computer store was doing demos, took pic of my baby w canon A95 @ 3mp used the IP1500 and canon 4 x 6 glossy WOW! I checked out the price on Amazon Under $50, 50pcs of glossy 4x6 was under $8. The BCI-24 black is ~$8 and BCI-24 color ~$17.

I have even tried some of the 3rd party knock-off inks (real cheap)and they look just as good. I can not find a flaw with this machine. I figured a ~$50 printer would have $30-$40 ink cartridges (Dell) but I have seen the BCI-24's everywhere and Canon paper is great quality and very reasonably priced. I am seriouly questioning ever visiting a photo lab again. If it were not for the demo I would have wrote this off as a cheap printer that produced poor quality prints. I think most all the reviews come to the same conclusion. I have extremely happy with the 4x6", 5x7" and 8x11.5" prints. I would not spend the time to write a review unless I really like or dislike a product, and my choice is obvious.


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Summary: Epson is dead to me - Long Live Canon!
Review: As a professional graphic artist with over 20 years in the industry, I have seen lots of products/suppliers come and go.

Like Quark before it Epson decided to abandon its core user base of professional graphic arts customers for the promise of a windfall of profit by catering only to Win-Tel users. They now are a commodity player with an expensive, balky, cumbersome line of equipment.

In steps Canon, god love 'em. Great Cameras, great printers, Mac support for days...

Now this printer is my home unit and I could not be more pleased with its performance.

Two main features attracted me:

1. The ink it uses is BC-24, available, been around for YEARS, and cheap! (about $17 for color and $8 for the color cart).

2. border-less printing on generic 4x6 glossy snaps from Office Depot (100 pieces for $12) that look great.

This printer is fast, quiet, and works flawlessly with iPhoto as well as any of the typical Pro apps a Graphic Designer might use.

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Summary: Very nice printer for $45.
Review: Fast and very good quality printer and it even works with Linux. It took me about 10 min to set up in Windows XP box and 15 min in Fedora Core 2 Linux box. If anybody wants a print driver for this, go to http://www.turboprint.de/english.html.

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Summary: Cheap but Nice Printer and Not to be used Every Day
Review: I am a graduate student. Even though, universities gave me printing facilities, it's always nice to have a backup printer at your own home. So, to me this printer acts as a backup printer, just in case I forgot to make print out for tomorrow's deadline. This printer does the job nicely. The black and color quality is just right. It is also very cheap. Not to mention the ink cost is the cheapest among the rest.

However, if you are thinking of making print out everyday in abundance, this is not the printer for you. I didn't compare the ink volume that comes with it. But I think it has lower volume than the others. Recently, I made print out every single day around 5 to 10 pages. Within 1 month, the ink detector already gave me a low signal.

All in all, this is a cheap but has a good print quality. But don't use it every day.

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Summary: Great Photo Printer
Review: I bought this printer because of the very good magazine reviews about its ability to print photos. It doesn't disappoint. The 4x6 photo quality is just as good as having them done professionally. The software for printing photos is excellent.
This printer uses a different software to print other types of documents, such as web pages and text document, and this software needs improvement.
The software for printing web pages and text documents have a preview feature but you cannot delete out pages selectively.
I also have a Epson Stylus C62 and it allows you to preview pages and selectively delete out pages. This is a very handy and useful feature.
Maybe Canon wants you to use up more ink so they do not include this feature, but it would be a welcome improvement.


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Summary: Printer
Review: I bought this printer for my boyfriend for christmas, thinking it would be a good first photo printer to start out with. This printer is so awsome. The print quality is way better than I thought it was going to be. At times it can be loud when it gets ready to print but once you get past that it is very nice. I would highly recommend it.

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Summary: why could not canon be more considerate
Review: It is a piece of cake for canon company to include a ubs cable in the package, but it did not do that. Why?
My printer is still there intact, I am waiting for my cable from ebay. By the way, who said that the usb cable is cheap?
it costs more than 16 dollars in Wal-mart

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Summary: Good starting photo printer.
Review: The Canon PIXMA ip1500 is a good starting photo printer for its price range. It has a very stylish design, and it does not clutter your desktop.

The quality of the prints it produces are exceptional for the price. And the ink cartriges are insanely inexpensive, compared to my mother's Epson and Lexmark printers.

There is a minor delay from when you tell the printer to print, and when it actually does print (during which it is a bit noisy). Still, this is not a major problem.

My only criticism is that I wish it had a paper tray for the printed paper. It does not have any, and this means there is nowhere for the paper that has been printed on to go, except your desktop. But still, this is a wonderful printer for a very inexpensive price, and the low cost of the ink makes it even more worth it.

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Summary: What a Deal.
Review: This has got to be by far the best printer in it's price range. It's fast, and prints with great quality. I used to own a Lexmark z23 printer. Which wasn't bad for printing papers for school or even a low res picture here and there. But when it comes time for an ink refil, you're better off buying another printer, which is what I did. The Canon iP1500 cost me less than getting a set of black and color refils would have for an outdated printer. Don't let the low price of this printer make you think it is sub-par in any way. I like the borderless printing option, it allows me to make perfectly sized DVD case inserts, as without the option I would normally end up with a 1/8 inch border along one edge. My major complains are the same as those already mentioned... USB cable (I already had one, so it wasn't really a big deal), No storage case for print head. The noise when it prepares to print and then several seconds after it's done.

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Summary: ink
Review: this is a great printer cannot understand why anyone would get a printer that ink cartrages sell for 25 to 30 $ apiece you can find these cartrages for 2$ to 5$ all over the net and they last just as long