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
MSRP: Our Price: $4.85 Your Savings:$7.10 (59.41%)
3 or more: $3.75 ea.
OEM #: BCI6C Color: Cyan Yield: 280 pages
MSRP: Our Price: $4.85 Your Savings:$7.10 (59.41%)
3 or more: $3.75 ea.
OEM #: BCI6M Color: Magenta Yield: 280 pages
MSRP: Our Price: $4.85 Your Savings:$7.10 (59.41%)
3 or more: $3.75 ea.
OEM #: BCI6PC Color: Photo Cyan Yield: 280 pages
MSRP: Our Price: $4.85 Your Savings:$7.10 (59.41%)
Paper handling (standard): Plain paper 100 sheets,
banner paper, envelopes 10, glossy photo cards 20 sheets, glossy photo
paper 10 sheets, high gloss photo film 1 sheet, high resolution paper 80
sheets, photo paper pro 1 sheet, photo paper pro 4-by-6-inch 20 sheets,
photo paper pro for borderless printing 4-by-6-inch 20 sheets,
transparencies 30 sheets, T-shirt transfer 1 sheet
Paper types: Letter, legal, A4, A5, 4 by 6-inch
photo cards, U.S. #10 or European envelopes, banner paper, photo paper
System requirements: Operating system
compatibility: Windows 95/98/2000/Me, XP, NT 4.0, and Mac OS (8.6 to
9.X)
In the box: S820 Photo printer, S820 printhead, ink
cartridges (BCI-6C Cyan ink cartridge, BCI-6M Magenta ink cartridge,
BCI-6Y Yellow ink cartridge, BCI-6Bk Black ink cartridge, BCI-6PC Photo
Cyan ink cartridge and BCI-6PM Photo Magenta ink cartridge), power cord,
easy set-up instructions, Photo Paper Pro sample paper pack (4 by 6-inch
sheets), Quick Start Guide, registration card, ESP brochure, cross sell
sheet, setup software and user’s guide CD-ROM [printer driver,
electronic user’s guide, electronic photo application guide, electronic
registration, PhotoRecord (PC), ImageBrowser (Mac), ZoomBrowser (PC),
PhotoStitch (PC/Mac)]
Warranty, parts: 1 year
Warranty, labor: 1 year
ProductDescription 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.
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.
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.
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