Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Canon PIXMA IP1500 Printer Review & Ink Cartridges
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Canon PIXMA IP1500 Printer Key Features:
- High-intensity color inks, pigment-based black ink
- USB interface, PC and Mac compatible
- Up to 4800 x 1200 dpi color resolution
- Up to 18 ppm black, 13 ppm color; 4-by-6-inch photo in about 58 seconds
- Canon FINE technology for high resolution and clear detail
- 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 PIXMA IP1500 compatible printer ink cartridges:
) OEM #: BCI24BK Color: Black Yield: 150 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI24C Color: Color Yield: 270 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI24B/BCI24C Color: Set |
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){kind=spacer} OEM #: BCI24BKTWIN Color: Set |
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OEM #: BCI24CTWIN Color: Col |
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) OEM #: BCI21BK/BCI24BK Color: White |
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) OEM #: BCI21C/BCI24C Color: White |
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) OEM #: BCI24BK Color: Black Yield: 150 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI24C Color: Color Yield: 270 pages |
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Detailed Specifications (Canon IP1500):
Product Description for Canon PIXMA IP1500 (From the Manufacturer, Canon)
High speed, sharp resolution, and economical ink refills: Could you ask for more in a home printer? The Canon PIXMA ip1500 is designed with over 1,000 nozzles that produce tiny 2-picoliter droplets, resulting in finely detailed images that are worthy of saving in your family album. Pigment-based inks insure colors will stay true, and the prints are resistant to water, fading, and smudges.
With resolutions up to 600 x 600 dpi black and 4,800 x 1,200 dpi color, your office documents or school reports will look as beautiful as your photos. Top speeds of 18 ppm black and 13 ppm color (draft mode) will have your pages in hand in just a few seconds; a borderless 4-by-6-inch photo can take as little as 58 seconds--quick enough to hand out party photos as your guests walk out the door.
MSRP for Canon PIXMA IP1500: $49.99
Street Price: $40.00 - $60.00
PC MAGAZINE.com Editors' review:
The Canon PIXMA iP1500 photo printer isn't the fastest photo printer we've tested, and it doesn't offer the best-quality photos we've ever seen. But it offers a combination of speed and quality that's astounding at the price—just $50 (direct).
What you won't find at this price are bells and whistles. The iP1500 doesn't offer such extras as memory card slots or direct printing from cameras. Rather, it's a basic four-color printer that measures 6.5 by 16.4 by 8.1 inches (HWD), and offers only a USB 1.1 port on the back. The black and tricolor cartridges are smaller than most, which means you can expect to replace them relatively often—cancelling the benefit of the low purchase price if you do a lot of printing.
On our performance tests, the iP1500 averaged 2 minutes 30 seconds for printing a 4-by-6 photo, and 5:55 for an 8-by-10. That makes it a close match in photo speed to the Canon MultiPASS MP390—our Editors' Choice in the ink jet-based AIO category. Surprisingly for a photo printer, however, it also managed a 29:53 total time on our business applications suite. That makes it faster than many standard ink jets, and much faster than the MP390, which took 42:06.
Output quality is another strong point. The rating for photos is just short of excellent, with most photos in our test qualifying as true photo quality, but with a minor tint on our monochrome test photo. Text printing rates as good, with more than half the test fonts easily readable at 4 points, but some stylized fonts needing 12 points for easy readability. Graphics were marred by slight banding in default mode, but still rank as just short of very good.
The small ink cartridges limit the iP1500 to light-duty use, but the combination of speed, quality, and price makes it a good choice as either a light duty all-purpose printer, or a secondary printer specifically for printing occasional photos.
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