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Canon i250 Color Bubble Jet Printer | List Price: $49.99
Discount Price: $189.85
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Brand: Canon
Binding: Electronics
Release Date: 2003-07-16
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - 4,800 x 1,200 dpi maximum color resolution
- Up to 12 ppm black, 9 ppm color print speed
- Supports edge-to-edge true borderless photos up to 8.5 by 11.7 inches
- Easy Webprint software scales and smoothes pages to fit your paper
- USB interface, PC and Mac compatible; 1-year warranty with Instant Exchange
A great little printer at a value price [Posted on 2004-07-02]
At its value price point, perhaps you can't expect perfection from the Canon i250,(...) I find very few reasons to complain. First off, the quality of printing was surprising for a standard, 4 ink printer, even on digital photos. For photo prints, does it perform as well as, say, an HP Photosmart 7960 with its 8 inks (which is over 4x the cost)? Of course it doesn't. But for routine use, even on the occasional photo, it's really not bad. When in its normal printing mode, it's not a speed demon, but it does perform reasonably well, and is typical of printers in its class. On the up side, consumables for this printer are remarkably affordable, providing somewhat of a disincentive to pursue refill kits. They also seem to have a fair and reasonable number of prints per cartridge change. But if you do choose to refill, I've found the print cartridges in the i250 refill easily and effectively, free of print-counter chips (so popular in Epson's printers these days) that are such a pain. And speaking of Epson, recent Epson inkjets I've used will end-up with clogged print nozzles if the printer sits unused even for only a couple of days. Not so here; I've gone weeks between prints, and it fires-up and works perfectly each time. Also a plus is the printer's compact size. While you still need to allow space for paper movement, when not in use, the top folds down and it's small, shoebox size let's you put it most anywhere. Truly, at this price, almost anyone can afford one, and it'd be money well spent in my book.
No Frills Printer that will save you a LOT of money [Posted on 2004-09-23]
I purchased this bubble jet as a second family printer mainly for documents, and letters and have been extremely impressed.
It's fairly compact, very easy to install and use and has already more than paid for itself.
The average cost of a replacement black cartridge is around $3 online for multi packs of 5 and I have purchased multi packs of color cartridges also online at under $5 each including shipping! Compared with many other top brands that cost up to $35 per cartridge - that's a big big saving. As I said this is a "no frills" printer, but actually has very clear reproduction onto photo paper in high color using the idiot proof "Easy Photo" software provided. The Maintenance window allows you to do many functions including resetting the cartridges for low ink warning after installing new ones, a quiet mode for night printing, and many other functions. Another gem is the "Easy-Web" print feature that allows you to capture web pages for printing on standard paper without losing information on the edges, as you would using the regular print function from Windows. The only minor complaint I have is that being a bubble jet, high quality print in both BW and color can take a little while to dry, but other than this - it's a wonderful budget package, with a well known and respected name. If you're into CAD or high quality photo reproduction, imaging and such like then this is not for you - but if you print a lot of draft quality documents, and have a family especially who churn out pages of printed matter per day, this will serve you well, and save you a LOT of money. I've had mine for over 6 months and it is in daily use with NO problems to date. Highly recommended.
you don't always get what you pay for [Posted on 2006-03-13]
After using this printer for almost two years, I am sadly disappointed in the fact that the color cartridge has only worked for the first 6 months. Since then, I have been unable to get the color option to work.
The black cartridge works great but for almost 50.00, I expected a bit more
Great Printer for a Great Price! [Posted on 2006-11-29]
When I originally bought this printer 3 years ago, I believe it was a much better price that it is now. This is a great everyday printer. I used this printer throughout college to print out projects and a lot of paper. It never failed me once. It is very simple to use and the best thing is that the ink (both black and color) is extremely cheap - especially if you buy it online. Black will run you around $6 and color ink is about $12. Both a really good deal and they last you a decent amount of time. Generally, this is a really good printer, but I am not sure if it is worth this new price.
Awsome Printer [Posted on 2006-12-08]
Cheap Ink, Great Quality Prints, Perfect for side small projects or children. Quiet affordable and everyting you need...Great Product.
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