Friday, June 10, 2005
Canon PIXMA MP780 Printer Review & InkJet Cartridges
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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 MP780 compatible printer ink cartridges:
) OEM #: BCI3BK Color: Black Yield: 500 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI6BK Color: Black Yield: 300 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI6C Color: Cyan Yield: 280 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI6M Color: Magenta Yield: 280 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI6Y Color: Yellow Yield: 280 pages |
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) OEM #: MBCI3BK Color: Black |
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) OEM #: BCI6BK/C/M/Y Color: Set |
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) OEM #: BCI3eBK Color: White |
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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 #: BCI3BK Color: Black Yield: 500 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI6BK Color: Black Yield: 300 pages |
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Detailed Specs (Canon PIXMA MP780):
Product Description for Canon MP780 (From the Manufacturer, Canon)
The feature-rich Canon PIXMA MP780 Photo All-In-One delivers the ultimate combination of speed and quality to your home-office projects. It can print or copy up to 25 ppm in black and up to 17 ppm in color, and a 4-by-6-inch borderless photo takes about 36 seconds (1). You'll achieve up to Super G3 fax speed in color and black-and-white (2), and the USB 2.0 Hi-Speed interface enables the fastest image transfers and scanning speeds possible today (3).
To further increase productivity, the integrated 35-page auto document feeder helps you speed through larger copy and fax jobs. A dual paper path allows you to keep a second type of paper ready for printing, an built-in two-sided printing (duplexing) saves time and paper. Plus, electronic sorting automatically collates your copies, so you don't have to.
MSRP for Canon MP780: $299.99
Street Price: $225.00 - $317.00
PCWORLD.com Editors' revşew:
Any small office working with both documents and pictures will value the Canon Pixma MP780. For $300, it's a good multifunction device for printing, copying, scanning, and faxing.
For instance, you can drop as many as 35 pages into its automatic document feeder for fast scanning or copying. Dual paper trays hold 300 sheets; and in case the paper runs out, the unit's memory can store 250 pages of incoming faxes. You can save paper by using the built-in duplexer to print on both sides.
The MP780 lacks media card slots, but a PictBridge port lets you print directly from a compatible digital camera.
The numerous buttons on the control panel are clearly labeled, and the backlit monochrome LCD includes an ink-level display above its two lines of text. The unit also has eight speed-dial buttons that you can use to store frequently used fax numbers.
The MP780 uses four dye-based inks, supplemented by a second, pigment-based black ink. In our test prints, text looked crisp, with sharp italics. Large letters were dark and solid, while small fonts were easy to read. Line art printed darkly enough, but suffered from wide horizontal banding and blobs on narrow parallel lines. Overall, color graphics looked good, though the darkest areas had a posterized appearance where the pigment black seemed to kick in too strongly. On photo paper, the MP780 produced images with sharp detail, smooth color transitions, and bright colors.
The MP780 was consistently fast at all printing tasks. Considering that the MP780 delivered better text quality than its faster rivals, its 6.9-ppm text print speed was excellent. Also, it printed our test photo in just 77 seconds, much faster than the average of 127 seconds. The MP780 was quicker than average at copying, too, and it scanned faster than any other model that earned a spot on the chart.
Though the MP780 copied text documents well, its scans didn't impress us. In particular, our detailed photograph lacked sharpness and color accuracy despite being scanned at the highest resolution.
Canon bundles some helpful software with the MP780, including the Presto PageManager document management application and ScanSoft's OmniPage SE OCR software, though not ArcSoft's PhotoStudio image editor.
Upshot: The Canon Pixma MP780 delivers fast performance and high-quality printing, plus office-friendly features like a duplexer, automatic document feeder, and built-in color faxing.
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