Canon S330 Color Bubble Jet Printer

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Summary: A COMPLETE RIP OFF!
Review: I was really happy with this printer for the first year (although it got through ink cartridges really quickly) until after just over a year it just stopped working!!! I phoned Canon and they offered to repair it but it would be cheaper to buy another printer. Aparently there is a Waste Ink Tank which fills up after a while but Canon will not supply the replacement part required or the re-set sequence number to get it working again! So in effect it is basically a disposable printer - once the Waste Ink Tank fills up you have to buy a new one or pay the equivilant to get it fixed. WHAT A CON!

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Summary: Broken after one year !?!?
Review: Just wanted to add my experience to the many people who, after having this printer for a year, now have a useless, grey-and-blue paperweight.

For the first year, this printer worked great. It was relatively fast, could produce photo-quality prints (but ONLY on Canon photo paper), and the ink was cheap. (And yes, it was an ink-guzzler.) Still, dispite everything -- even the ridiculous noises! -- we were happy. When we bought it, the printer came packaged with our computer; now I understand why it was so cheap.

Now, just over a year later, the black print head does not print clearly. Judging by the other reviews here, this happens often.

While I know this printer was cheap, it's unacceptable that it breaks after a year. I do not feel I over-worked this printer. How can Canon make such faulty products?

Be prepared that if you buy this product, and use it, it will break sooner than you expect. I almost gave this two stars because it was great while it worked. But now, it's broken. What a waste that it's cheaper and easier to buy a new printer, than replace my black print head. I doubt I'll be looking at a Canon printer.

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Summary: Canon S330 Color Bubble Jet Printer
Review: My printer just gave out after 1 year and one week (past warranty). The black ink will not print despite new cartridge(s), cleaning the nozzles, and every other maintenance procedure.
This printer has been fairly reliable in the year. I have used it extensively for photograph printing, greeting cards, address labels and stationary gifts for family. Other than the cartridges running out quickly, I have been happy with the machine. The color has been good for prints and photos.
I am unable to find an online source for troubleshooting, and am of the opinion that a $99. printer although inexpensive, ought to work longer than one year. I hate to dispose of it.
If anyone has any advise, please contact me at [e-mail]
Thank you.

Rating:
Summary: Canon S330 printer problems
Review: My printer just gave out after 1 year and one week (past warranty). The black ink will not print despite new cartridge(s), cleaning the nozzles, and every other maintenance procedure.
This printer has been fairly reliable in the year. I have used it extensively for photograph printing, greeting cards, address labels and stationary gifts for family. Other than the cartridges running out quickly, I have been happy with the machine. The color has been good for prints and photos.
I am unable to find an online source for troubleshooting, and am of the opinion that a $99. printer although inexpensive, ought to work longer than one year. I hate to dispose of it.
If anyone has any advise, please contact me at [e-mail]
Thank you.

Rating:
Summary: great
Review: Pros: cheap, prints nicely and fast, Ink is inexpensive for this model
Pros: long warm up cycle, kind of annoying.

This printer is all about saving money, I bought 10 off brand ink cartradges from ... for $20, and they work great.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent quality, unique printer features
Review: Pros: Quiet mode is just that - quiet. You can specify a time frame for Quiet mode: for instance, all printing done between 10:00pm until 9:00am will be printed in quiet mode. The printer can automatically turn itself on to print, and turn itself off when the print job is done. Print quality is great, and it's fast. The ink cartridges are quite inexpensive (less than [price] each for B&W or color cartridge). Free sample back of 4"x6" Pro photo paper inlcuded for true bordless printing. A printed a photo from a 1.3Megapixel camera and it was as if Kodak processed it!

Cons: It's a little loud in normal mode. This is due to the automatic head-cleaning that occurs before a print job. Paper loader tray handles 100 sheets of paper, but the output tray handles only 50 sheets. Printer applications (there are several) that come with the printer weigh in at over 130MB (but you don't have to install them).

Rating:
Summary: Okay quality for an okay printer
Review: The printer does print pretty fast and offers reasonable (but not great) quality print outs.

Pro: Includes both Color and B/W ink cart. Low printing cost (cheap ink carts, a BIG PLUS). Supports gray scale printing, good for printing drafts and saving color ink.

Con: Long ink-wasting-cycle, head continue to move even w/o job. Rather bulky (still better than Epson). Insist that I install driver from CD instead of auto install by XP.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent quality for the price
Review: The S330 is a fast, reliable printer with crisp color printing and fast black and white. The color prints are incredible with photos coming out almost (but not quite) crystal clear. (Note: I've noticed that there is a noticable print difference when using regular verses heavy paper when printing lots of color. Use cardstock or photo paper if you want your color print to come out as clear as possible).

Additionally, the cartridges are very inexpensive (I've purchased black and white as low as $4 and color as low as $5) and easy to replace resulting in a very low cost-per-page with ease.

The only complaint I have against this printer is the number of times it cleans the print head. For example, when I printed 70 pages of text it cleaned the head 3 or 4 times during the print. This slows down the speed of printing significantly and also increases the noise level of the machine.

Rating:
Summary: Great printer- when it works
Review: This is a review based on the S300 printer, which appears to be nearly identical to the S330 except for the swoosh on the front panel. I bought an S300 for my MIL based on excellent reviews and the small ink tanks being appropriate for her light use.

FWIW, the Mac print driver is hard to use and buggy (Canon doesn't seem to care much about the Mac market), but that's not the reason for the rating.

The first printer started misfeeding and mangling paper at 8 months, before the first ink cartridge had even been used up (and the cartridges that came with the printer aren't even full cartridges!).

The replacement printer died two months and about 50 pages later.

She's on her third printer, and I'm in the doghouse.

Rating:
Summary: Quite pleased
Review: This is our first printer, so we don't have much to compare it to. However, we have been quite pleased with the quality of the text documents and photos that we have printed. One thing that I love about this printer is that there are separate black and color ink cartridges. The only negative comment I have is that it takes a little while (under a minute though) for the printer to "wake up" and it makes some noise while it is waking up.