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Canon i70 Color Bubble Jet Printer

Canon i70 Color Bubble Jet Printer

List Price: $249.99
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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A no-brainer to use with the camera
Review: I'm lazy. I did not feel like installing the driver on my laptop. So, I plugged the Canon ELPH camera directly into the printer, picked a photo, and printed it. Easy Peasy. I don't know how professionals feel about the print quality of this printer, but it is perfectly adequate for small family type snapshots. It is the size of a hardback book, which is very nice if you don't have a lot of room in the house for yet another gizmo.

My only peeves are these: I had trouble figuring out how to put the print head in. The documentation is just a tad unclear. The other peeve is that the printing is very slow. It takes a while for the image to go from the camera into the printer's memory. I almost power cycled it, thinking I'd done something wrong or needed to hook it up to a computer to install a driver on the printer. However, when I got back to it after taking a break, it had printed out a nice little photo. It'd be nice if there was some kind of feedback indicating progress.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great little printer
Review: I've had this printer for 9 months and its been great. 2 complaints: it runs out of ink quickly and the ink for this printer is expensive; 2) there is no paper catch.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Forget the feature list. This printer really IS portable.
Review: My husband was going to a two-week writer's workshop, and needed a printer to bring along. We bought a Canon i70 bubble jet printer, even though it cost considerably more than most low-end printers. We haven't regretted the purchase for a moment.

The printer has two strong marks in its favor:

* It weighs only 7 pounds. It's also about the size of a hardback novel, and slid right into his iBook-and-computer backpack. (Other people had to ship a box, complete with styrofoam and packing tape.)

* The ink cartridges cost $11 each. (Amazon's likely to cut the dollar amount, so I'll also point out this costs less than two fast-food dinners.)

At the relatively low ink price, we assumed that the printer would go through ink faster than I can eat a box of Lindt chocolate truffles. So we made sure to get a second cartridge before he left. To his surprise, a single ink cartridge lasted the entire two weeks -- even though he went through an entire ream of paper. (Not single-spaced with lots of fonts, and no color to speak of, but that's still pretty impressive.)

Note, however, that the i70 doesn't hold a lot of sheets at a time. That wasn't a criteria for the traveling printer (and we have a color laser at home, so it doesn't get much use off-the-road), but it might matter to you.

To be honest, we haven't done any real color printing on it yet, other than to test that it worked. So I can't speak to that. However, it's certainly fast.

Bottom line: if you need a truly portable printer, I don't think you'll do better than this. While plenty of other inkjets are light enough that, yeah, if you had to bring it along you COULD, the Canon i70 is easy enough to grab and stuff in your luggage. You'll take it along without a second thought.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Common Sense
Review: People, don't rate this a bad product, or Amazon.com poorly for not selling a USB cable. The reviewer from Hawaii gave Amazon and the printer poor reviews because it didn't come with a "specialized cable" as he put it. First of all, it's not "specialized", it's a standard A-B USB cable. Second, if you have ever owned a computer, you'll know that printers rarely come with the parallel or USB cable. It's just the way they are sold. In the future, check your knowledge first before bad mouthing a company. That's just my two cents.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: VERY HANDY, LOOKS NIFTY, AND PRINTS FAST!
Review: THE GOOD:

(1) This is the lightest printer among peers. HP's 450cbi, the closest alternative in my book, is nowhere near as portable as the i70.

(2) Prints directly from a digicam. I use Canon's G3, and I can now share photo print-outs straight from my camera. No need to lug my laptop around.

(3) The battery life is great, don't believe detractors. IN general you don't need the battery -- that is only for outings, for those occasions when you just have to print out something while sitting by the lake.

(4) It is FAST! Especially for color prints, it outpaces my full-blown HP laserjet.

(5) It is QUIET. You'll have to get used to its noiseless printing. First time round, I had to check to make sure the paper was printed on.

(6) Is a breeze to INSTALL. Something you can expect from Canon, of course.

(7) Works with both Windows and Macs.

CAVEATS:

(1) The photo quality may not appeal to shutterbugs, especially if NOT printed on photo paper, but for general office workers with little desk space or for folks with a packed travel roster, the i70 is a pretty safe bet.

(2) The ink costs may sky rocket quite quickly if you print colored stuff often. If, like me, your general printing is B&W, then this is a great buy.

(3) The price, especially if you buy the battery pack. But there are deals if you know where to look.

SUMMARY:

A great overall printer, definitely if you need to carry one around. I purchase Epson's photo paper (not Canon's own) for color shots and the i70 prints more than adequately. The speed, the quality and the quietness make it one of my top printer recommendations -- all things said, even better than a regular inkjet.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Little Printer!
Review: The UPS shipping was on target for the 1 day shipping service, and was well worth the extra money. I felt like a kid opening up the UPS box, then the printer box. Then after carefully installing the printer (I already had a USB cord) and software per Canon's instructions, I gave that little toy a test and man was I impressed! I've been using an old BCJ-250 for about 5 years now and didn't realize what an updated printer can do. I know I may have to refill my ink cartridges a bit more often but I mainly use my printer for online reciepts, news letters and emails so I should be fine. I'm not a professional photographer but was very happy with the photo results I got out of the printer. Not bad for not being listed as a "Photo Printer" I think. I know, everyone's different, but I would highly recomend this printer. Especially to people who don't like clutter like me. That design is awsome and ironically matches my desktop computer, and scanner in color.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: herbyjoy
Review: This printer is the best thing that happened to me in a long time.

It is fast, prints great,and is very small and light.
I travel a lot and always have my notebook computer with me. Their have been many times that I wished that I could print something in the hotel room. Now I can.

The i70 fits in the same case as my compaq notebook and now goes with me everywhere.

Another thing is the cost of the ink is great. I found a web site that seels compatable ink for this printer at a great price. ....

Their was a ... rebate on this at the time I bought it, but I would have bought it without the rebate.

I have a HP Laser and a HP photo 7960 and this printer keeps up with both of them. The photos are not as good as the HP 7960 but this is not a stand alone photo printer.

You get what you pay for and this little printer will not disappoint you.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This Printer is Fantastic!
Review: This TINY printer is amazing. Its whisper quiet, fast, and prints with exceptional quality (both photos and documents in color and B/W). I have no complaints whatsoever. Also, you can start printing virtually immediately after taking it out of the box - easy with USB cable. I highly recommend this printer to anyone.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Poor Customer Service
Review: Try calling amazon for service on something you bought...good luck...this item doesn't come with a cord to connect to your computer, and it needs a special one that amazon doesn't offer. I'm rating amazon more than the product, since I can't even get the product to work...poor customer service and product control...I'd advise to buy this product somewhere else that at least supplies you with a cord to get started...or at least offers one!!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: very nice...
Review: well....it's a VERY nice printer.... good quality! especially if i was to compare it to my $20 Lexmark inkjet.... it's fast and quiet. I guess the only complaint i have about this printer is that i'm already out of the black ink, and i only had it for about 3 weeks... i dont think i've done that much with it.... so that's the only bad thing! oh, and if you connect via the infrared, u dont get to see the status of the ink.... so it pretty much took me by surprise when the ink ran out.......


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