Thursday, September 29, 2005
Canon S820 Printer Review & Printer Ink 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 S820 compatible printer ink cartridges:
) 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 #: BCI6PC Color: Photo Cyan Yield: 280 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI6PM Color: Photo Magenta Yield: 280 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI6Y Color: Yellow Yield: 280 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI6BK/C/M/Y Color: Set |
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) OEM #: BCI6BK/C/M/Y/PM/PC 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 #: BCI6BK Color: White |
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) OEM #: BCI6PC Color: White |
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) OEM #: BCI6PM Color: White |
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) OEM #: BCI6BK Color: Black Yield: 300 pages |
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Detailed Specs (Canon S820):
Product Description for Canon S820 (From the Manufacturer, Canon)
For photography fans, Canon offers the S820 Photo InkJet. It's ideal for printing colorful borderless photos directly from your desktop, as it requires no special papers to achieve refined color and detail. Plus, with both USB and parallel ports, it's a suitable companion for either your Mac or PC.
The S820 uses a six-color printing process with individual ink tanks (256 x 6 nozzles) to reduce waste. Just drop in the single color cartridge you need, without having to change the others. The inks are formulated to provide lightfast images lasting up to 25 years.
Print crisp clean black and color prints at 2,400 x 1,200 dpi on a wide variety of media, including letter size, legal size, A4, A5, photo cards, No. 10 or European envelopes and banner paper. Canon claims you can print an 8-by-10-inch photo on plain paper in under two minutes and a 4-by-6 in about one minute, both in photo quality.
The unit is designed for compactness and quiet running for users seeking high-quality photo printing. Software includes the printer drivers and a BJ Solution Disk CD-ROM. The latter includes PhotoRecord for Windows, ImageBrowser for Mac, and PhotoStitch for both Windows and Mac. Canon offers a one-year limited warranty on parts and labor.
MSRP for Canon S820: $299.00
Street Price: $90.00
PCWORLD.com Editors' review:
WHAT'S HOT: Designed as a photo printer, the S820 uses six inks--the typical cyan (blue), magenta (red), yellow, and black, plus light tints of cyan and magenta for fine-tuning colors. The result is a reasonably priced ($199) printer that produces breathtaking glossy photos with excellent detail, accurate colors, and lifelike textures. In addition, the S820 prints gray-scale graphics as duotones, so even on plain paper they convey depth and fine detail. Canon provides excellent printed and on-screen documentation covering every facet of setting up and using the printer.
WHAT'S NOT: The S820 didn't print well on plain paper: Narrow parallel lines smudged together, and color images looked foggy. Text, which prints at a very poky 2.2 pages per minute, looked rough and had a bluish-gray cast. Though that's no surprise in a photo printer, it limits the S820's versatility. Text looked better on glossy photo paper, but that isn't a typical printing scenario
WHAT ELSE: Text printing is economical, at 1.9 cents per page (based on Canon's estimates of yield per ink cartridge.) Canon's photo-oriented software bundle includes its own Easy-PhotoPrint, for creating documents that use photos, and PhotoStitch, for combining photos of adjacent scenes into panoramic images. Like many Canon ink jets, the S820 has paper supports that don't attach snugly, but at least the ones on this model are made of very sturdy plastic.
UPSHOT: For digital camera fans who want a machine exclusively to print photos, the S820 is a great choice.
Related links for Canon S820:
Canon S820 ink cartridges at PrintCountry.com
Buy this printer at Amazon.com
Canon's Related Page
Remanufactured ink cartridges
Canon S820 Driver
