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Summary: New Canon printers will be shipped...
Review: i9100 prices dropped because the new i9900 will come out between May 10 - 21 (2004). i9100 are great but if you can wait, it looks like the new i9900s will be better with 2-picoliter droplets, 4800x2400 dpi printing, 8 ink system (CMYK, PC,PM, Red,Blue) almost doubling the print nozzles, and USB & Firewire connection. Sorry this is not a review but just a head up for those who like to get latest so they don'g get stuck with buying an older model.
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Summary: Goodbye Epson, hello Canon!
Review: OK, I am a longtime, die hard Epson user. Until now. After the abuse I endured with the 2000p, and with the new availability of stable (25+ years) dye based inks, I was in a quandary about whether to get the Epson 2200 or look elsewhere. Obviously, I got the Canon. I haven't made a huge number of prints yet, but the ones I have made have been perfect. Wow! Color management that actually works! And, it's fast fast fast! 8.5x11 in about 3 minutes, not the 8+ minutes of the Epson. And the glossy prints look far better than any pigment inks I have tried with the Epson. Finally, it's quiet. No more buzz-saw to wake the baby. Borderless printing works great. I can't wait to try the 13x19. After all the pain Epson put me through, I can now smile as they die a slow and painful death at the hands of Canon. This is a great printer. cw
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Summary: Not for Design Work
Review: The good new is that this is a fantastic printer for photos. Super quality. For layout and design, it just won't work. PDFs, for example WILL NOT print correctly on the page. Precise locations for elements will not print where specified. Canon's response is this situation is the printer as designed exclusively for photos. Well, that's obviously not the case given that its output options include Legal, ledger, envelope, etc. Many people buy a wide-format machine for more that simply photos and it would be nice if Canon related this limitation as part of its product description. Secondly, the printer will not print Custom Paper Sizes correctly in Mac OSX. Another MAJOR LIMITATION. If Canon would address these issues, it would be just an amazing machine...to bad. LC
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Summary: Defective
Review: There is a white shadow line on the left side of the picture.
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Summary: Almost Great
Review: This is a great printer, but no one, including Canon carries 13"x19" card-stock paper. I bought this printer with idea that I'ld be able to print my own 13x19 colored signs (100 at a time) but alas, no paper is available.
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Summary: Almost Great
Review: This is a great printer, but no one, including Canon carries 13"x19" card-stock paper. I bought this printer with idea that I'ld be able to print my own 13x19 colored signs (100 at a time) but alas, no paper is available.
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Summary: Fantastic quality and speed - Photos and CAD
Review: This is a perfect printer for a small architectural firm. The photo quality is remarkable - better than any lab has produced for us - and the speed is jaw dropping compared to Epson. Haven't done large format photos yet - but have regularly printed 11 x 17 B/W CAD drawings - which are incredibly crisp even on plain paper. Tiny type is readable on reduced checkplots. I should have put a stopwatch to it, but it seems that a reduced D size print with complex title bar/graphics comes out in 15 seconds or so. Just received some 13 x 19 paper so that we can print D size (24 x 36) plots at exactly half size - giving accurate 1/8" scale drawings for example for what would be 1/4" scale on the plotter. Separate ink tanks, quality and speed are what drew us to this printer. Will have to see how the ink lasts to see how economical it is in use.
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Summary: Great but Beware of Booklet Mode!
Review: This is another fine addition to the Canon line, but an unnecessary limitation in Booklet Mode limits its use for engineering applications where one must retain precise scales.
Print an engineerring drawing in Normal and it comes out by default scaled exactly as the source document. (Of course, you can scale it up or down at your option if you wish.) One inch on the source prints out as one inch on the printout.
Booklet mode, however, forces an unsuspected margin and scales the output down slightly. There is no provision in the driver to supress this scaling. Otherwise, this printer does everything else very well.
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Summary: Good engineering printer
Review: This printer is a good choice for black and white 11x17 printing too. I wanted to print schematics and mechanical drawings on up to 11x17 paper as well as the usual office printing chores. It produces very crisp grey scale results on ordinary inkjet paper in "standard" quality. C size schematics are quite readable on letter size if you have good eyes and are comfortable printed on 11x17. A "standard" quality 11x17 OrCAD schematic printed in 75 seconds. The scaling of a TurboCAD v9.0 drawing was accurate to 0.3% which closer than previous laser printers. Have not had any paper handling problems. There was a minor software installation nuisance due to my use of dual monitors and the software's desire to pop up the registration window split between them. All parts were in the box and worked, though you need to buy a USB cable.
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Summary: Good engineering printer
Review: This printer is a good choice for black and white 11x17 printing too. I wanted to print schematics and mechanical drawings on up to 11x17 paper as well as the usual office printing chores. It produces very crisp grey scale results on ordinary inkjet paper in "standard" quality. C size schematics are quite readable on letter size if you have good eyes and are comfortable printed on 11x17. A "standard" quality 11x17 OrCAD schematic printed in 75 seconds. The scaling of a TurboCAD v9.0 drawing was accurate to 0.3% which closer than previous laser printers. Have not had any paper handling problems. There was a minor software installation nuisance due to my use of dual monitors and the software's desire to pop up the registration window split between them. All parts were in the box and worked, though you need to buy a USB cable.
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