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 i350 compatible printer ink
cartridges:
OEM #: BCI24BK Color: Black Yield: 150 pages
MSRP: Our Price: $3.89 Your Savings:$5.10 (56.73%)
3 or more: $2.89 ea.
OEM #: BCI24C Color: Color Yield: 270 pages
MSRP: Our Price: $5.65 Your Savings:$14.34 (71.74%)
3 or more: $4.45 ea.
OEM #: BCI24B/BCI24C Color: Set
MSRP: Our Price: $22.75 Your Savings:$82.25 (78.33%)
OEM #: BCI21BK/BCI24BK Color: White
Our Price: $5.95
3 or more: $4.95 ea.
OEM #: BCI21C/BCI24C Color: White
Our Price: $6.95
3 or more: $5.95 ea.
OEM #: BCI24BK Color: Black Yield: 150 pages
Our Price: $8.99
3 or more: $8.79 ea.
OEM #: BCI24C Color: Color Yield: 270 pages
Our Price: $19.99
3 or more: $19.54 ea.
Specifications (Canon i350 Color BubbleJet Printer,
8549A001):
Print speed: Black: 16ppm Color: 11ppm Borderless
4" x 6" photo in 87 seconds
Print resolution: Black: 600 x 600 dpi Color: up to
4800 x 1200 dpi
Print technology: Thermal Inkjet
Ink cartridges: BCI-24 Black Ink Tank, BCI-24 Color
Ink Tank
Input capacity: 100 sheets
Media handling (standard): Automatic Sheet Feeder:
100 @ 17 lbs
Media types: Plain, high resolution, photo,
transparencies, labels, transfers
Media sizes: 4" x 6" up to 8.5" x 11.7"
Interface: USB 2.0(cable not included)
Software: Setup Software and User's Guide CD-ROM
including: Printer drivers, User's Guide and e-registration,
Easy-PhotoPrint (Windows/Mac), Easy-WebPrint (Windows, requires
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.5, version 6.0 recommended)
OS Compatibility: Windows(r) XP, Windows
2000/Me/98/95, Windows NT 4.0, Mac(r) OS (8.6 to 9.x) and Mac OS X v
10.2.1 to 10.2.x
Width: 15.2"
Height: 6.5"
Depth: 7.7"
Weight: 5.3 lbs
Warranty, parts: One year
Warranty, labor: One year
ProductDescription for Canon i350
(From the Manufacturer, Canon)
The Canon i350 Color Bubble Jet Printer delivers crisp text, simple
setup, and high-quality photos from the Web—all at an exceptional value.
Web photos often suffer from poor quality, so Canon specially developed
Easy Webprint software to improve them (Windows only). Functioning as a
toolbar in Microsoft IE, it automatically scales and smoothes pages to
fit your paper properly, and allows you to format multiple pages as a
single, multi-column page.
The i350 printer's compact design fits nicely into limited workspaces;
with a weight of just 5.3 pounds, you'll hardly know it's there. A full
software package is included to make photo printing easy manageable, and
the two ink cartridges are included in the box. USB connectivity means
just one cord is necessary, but you'll need to supply it yourself. Canon
provides a one-year warranty with Instant Exchange service.
What's in the Box
Printer; AC power supply and cord; BCI-24 black ink tank; BCI-24 color
ink tank; Setup Software and User's Guide CD-ROM including printer
drivers, User's Guide and e-registration, Easy-PhotoPrint (Windows/Mac),
Easy-WebPrint (Windows, requires Microsoft Internet Explorer version
5.5, version 6.0 recommended); printer cable not included
Street Price: $129.85
PCWORLD.com Editors' review:
Canon's i350 costs only $60 and resembles a loaf of bread, but the
little machine impressed us in most stages of PC World's testing. It
printed solid, well-defined black text with only subtle hatching or
barbs on diagonal lines. On plain paper, the i350 produced gray-scale
photos with realistic textures and shading, though a slightly soft-focus
look obscured detail somewhat. (Our prints on coated inkjet paper looked
sharper.) On glossy photo paper, the i350 printed our test photos with
sharp detail; colors looked natural though slightly washed out. We
clocked the i350 printing text at 5.4 pages per minute, a fairly average
speed among inkjets we've tested lately; on graphics, the rate fell to
an unusually slow 0.7 ppm. One warning: When we handled plain-paper
printouts, the inks tended to smear.
The i350 uses two ink cartridges. The black tank costs $7 and prints an
estimated 300 pages of text, which works out to a modest 2.3 cents per
page. Printing color, on the other hand, isn't particularly cheap. A
three-color cartridge costs $18.50 and produces an estimated 170 pages
of light graphics (not photos); so you'll use about 12.2 cents of ink
(including the cost of black ink) per color page, versus our current
average of 10 cents per page.
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