Canon S500 Color Bubble Jet Printer

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Summary: Excellent quality. Ninja Quick.
Review: The Canon S500 is extremely fast. About 4.9x faster than my Lexmark Z11. This is due mainly to the fact that it's print head can contain both color and black ink at the simultaneously. This means that it can simply use black ink for black instead of making black out of the other colors. It also saves a lot of annoying cartridge switching and money, since you don't need to replace three colors when only one is low. This is a very good printer. It looks kinda cool too.

Rating:
Summary: Great printer
Review: This is a great printer, which is probably why Canon stopped making it. There are no special print cartridges needed to print photos. I used photo paper and the regular cartridges and made great photos. This was the mistake of Canon, they made an inexpensive printer that would print photos cheaply and realized they were going to lose a bunch of money not selling photo cartridges. Hopefully they will make another printer like this. The printing is very fast, almost as fast as my laser, quiet, and of exceptional quality. If you can find it buy it, you won't regret it.

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Summary: Was good, but now dead
Review: This printer died in less than 2 years - the printhead doesn't work anymore and replacements are about $70, about the cost of a new printer. This is the weakness with Canon's method of reusing the printhead and just replacing the ink. If you want a long-lasting printer, get an HP where you replace the printhead along with the ink.