Friday, January 28, 2005
Canon S400 Printer and Ink Cartridges Review
| Canon S400 printer uses individual printer ink cartridges
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Canon S400 Printer Key Features:
- Prints 6 ppm black, 4 ppm color
- Print resolution at 1440 by 720 dpi
- Built-in USB and parallel ports
- Uses individual ink tanks
- 1-year limited warranty
- Scroll Down the page for Full Detailed Technical Specifications
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Important Printer Buying Tip: ALWAYS check for the ink cartridge prices before you purchase a printer. Why? Sometimes cheaper printers end up costing more because its ink cartridges may be way expensive. You should calculate the "cost of ownership" per month. The math is simple: (number of prints per month) times (cost of the cartridge) divided by (the yield of the cartridge). Yield is the number of pages that can be printed with one particular cartridge. For example, assume that average home user prints 150 black pages per month using a black cartridge that yields 200 pages and costs $28. The monthly "cost of ownership" is (150 pages) x ($28) = $21 200 pages Also look at the printer ink alternatives; besides the original manufacturer's cartridges (OEMs), you may have the selection of remanufactured cartridges, compatible ink cartridges, and ink refill kits. |
Below is the list of Canon S400 compatible printer ink cartridges:
) OEM #: BCI3BK Color: Black Yield: 500 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI3C Color: Cyan Yield: 500 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI3M Color: Magenta Yield: 500 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI3PBK Color: Photo Black Yield: 280 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI3PC Color: Photo Cyan Yield: 280 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI3PM Color: Photo Magenta Yield: 280 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI3Y Color: Yellow Yield: 500 pages |
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) OEM #: MBCI3BK Color: Black |
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OEM #: MBCI3C Color: Cyan |
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OEM #: MBCI3M Color: Magenta |
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OEM #: MBCI3Y Color: Yellow |
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) OEM #: BCI3Bk/C/M/Y Color: Set |
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) OEM #: BCI3eC/BCI6C Color: White |
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) OEM #: BCI3eM/BCI6M Color: White |
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) OEM #: BCI3eY/BCI6Y Color: White |
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) OEM #: BC30e Color: Black Yield: 5,000 pages |
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) OEM #: BC33e Color: Photo Color Yield: 3,000 pages |
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) OEM #: BC34e Color: Photo Color |
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) OEM #: BCI3BK Color: Black Yield: 500 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI3C Color: Cyan Yield: 500 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI3M Color: Magenta Yield: 500 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI3PBK Color: Photo Black Yield: 280 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI3PC Color: Photo Cyan Yield: 280 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI3PM Color: Photo Magenta Yield: 280 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI3Y Color: Yellow Yield: 500 pages |
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Detailed Specs (Canon S400 Printer):
Product Description for Canon S400 (From the Manufacturer, Canon)
With innovative features, solid performance, and a low price tag, the Canon S400 Color Bubble Jet printer is all you need for your home or office. Its patented Think Tank System efficiently manages ink use, reducing waste and saving you money. Rather than replacing an entire cartridge, the S400 allows you to change individual ink tanks. This system also gives you the option to switch to Canon's IS-32 Color Image Scanner cartridge, allowing the S400 printer to work as a 720 dpi color sheetfed scanner.
At six pages per minute (four ppm color) and 1,440 x 720 dpi, the S400 combines fast printing with crisp graphics and professional documents. It handles a wide variety of paper types and sizes, including glossy photo, transparencies, envelopes, and T-shirt transfers. Built-in USB and parallel ports make connecting quick and easy for both Mac and PC systems.
The Canon S400 includes a CD-ROM featuring American Greetings CreataCard SE software, printer drivers, and user's guide.
Street Price: $365.00 - $1.047
PCWORLD.com Editors' review:
WHAT'S HOT: The S400's $79 price tag makes it the least expensive ink jet that PC World has reviewed in a long time. Despite the low cost, it is well designed and fairly versatile, with support for both standard ink and optional photo ink. The S400's ink prices are quite modest, at 2 cents for a page of black text and 11 cents for a page of color graphics. Also, each ink color comes in a separately replaceable tank, so if you deplete one color before the others you can replace just that one; on most other printers you have to replace all the color inks when one color runs dry.
WHAT'S NOT: The S400 prints graphics at a run-of-the-mill 0.6 pages per minute, but it prints text at only 2.3 ppm, about half the speed of many printers on the chart. Plus, its print quality on ordinary paper didn't impress us; text showed some shadowing or spattering and was somewhat rough on big letters, while graphics looked very dotty and didn't have much detail. (Note that on coated ink jet paper the S400's print quality takes a big jump in quality.) A minor detail: The output tray sort of leans against the printer instead of attaching snugly. That's fine until you move the printer, when the tray can easily slip off.
WHAT ELSE: You can remove the S400's print head and replace it with a gizmo that turns the printer into a scanner. The IS-32 scanner head captures 24-bit color at 720 dpi, similar to a low-end flatbed scanner. But it costs $69, which is only a bit less than an inexpensive scanner; considering the inconvenience of swapping heads and not being able to print while the scanner head is installed, it makes more sense just to buy a stand-alone scanner for your desk. We did not test the IS-32 scanner features. Canon really outdid itself on the S400's documentation: The excellent and detailed 500-page manual would probably outweigh the printer itself if Canon had decided to print it, but it is only available on the CD.
UPSHOT: The S400's low purchase price and relatively low ink costs might make it a good choice for casual users, though less-than-stellar print quality and slow speeds will probably discourage anybody who plans on doing more than occasional printing.
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