My new Canon PIXMA IP1800 replaces my Canon PIXMA IP1600 so the planet may be doomed and It could be my fault.
My Canon PIXMA IP1600 had nothing wrong with it. It wasn't broken. The pictures spilled out on glossy paper at A4 ready for framing. The text was crisp and black. I'd had it for ... Read review
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Advantages: Cheap and replaceable. Attractive and efficient technology. Disadvantages: Ink costs more than the machine. Potential ecological mayhem.
My new Canon PIXMA IP1800 replaces my Canon PIXMA IP1600 so the planet may be doomed and It could be my fault.
My Canon PIXMA IP1600 had nothing wrong with it. It wasn't broken. The pictures spilled out on glossy paper at A4 ready for framing. The text was crisp and black. I'd had it for a year or so. It was cheap yet efficient and as good as any printer I'd ever owned. It had no tray to catch paper coming out but otherwise was printing ... ...why I bought the Canon PIXMA IP1800 which is also excellent. But why bother? They're almost the same machine!
The ink is running out on my old printer and, bizarrely, new cartridges would cost more than a brand new one. My wife was furious.
She looked at the packets of ink cartridges with a shop assistant because she didn't believe me when I told her this.
'The ink costs more than a new printer? That's ... more
My new Canon PIXMA IP1800 replaces my Canon PIXMA IP1600 so the planet may be doomed and It could be my fault.
My Canon PIXMA IP1600 had nothing wrong with it. It wasn't broken. The pictures spilled out on glossy paper at A4 ready for framing. The text was crisp and black. I'd had it for a year or so. It was cheap yet efficient and as good as any printer I'd ever owned. It had no tray to catch paper coming out but otherwise was printing perfectly and I've been delighted with it. This is partly why I bought the Canon PIXMA IP1800 which is also excellent. But why bother? They're almost the same machine!
The ink is running out on my old printer and, bizarrely, new cartridges would cost more than a brand new one. My wife was furious.
She looked at the packets of ink cartridges with a shop assistant because she didn't believe me when I told her this.
'The ink costs more than a new printer? That's ridiculous! I'm offended as an environmentalist and....'
This seemed like an extravagant claim to me so I went off to look at games. When I came back my wife was still on her tirade, telling this unfortunate young lady what she thought. She thought it was all very well for the government to push laws at us all making us recycle. She thought it was fine and dandy to make us put all our tins and bottles in plastic boxes to be picked up by moralising binmen. She thought a carbon footprint was an abomination and that pricing ink above the cost of a new printer could only lead to a new ice age.
Let's leave her in full flow and take a short walk to where her voice is merely a soft roar in the distance and consider the logic beneath her rant. She's right you know. It flies in the face of the government's current enthusiasm for saving the planet from global warming for customers to be encouraged in this way to throw away their perfectly good Canon PIXMA IP1600s just to save money.
My opinion differs slightly from hers though I'd never dare tell her. I think that there's a huge international scam going on. Here's my conspiracy theory of printers: I think manufacturers - some more than others - are selling us lovely cheap printers but ink that appears to be made of liquid gold. I had an HP printer years ago that also did everything I wanted and sold it to a friend in order to get another make. This was because the ink for that brand of printer cost much more than it did for Epson or Canon, in particular. That is, in point of fact, why I started buying Canon printers in the first place.
Printers have come on a lot since the rotating bonky wheel on the old Amstrad 8512 and 9512 PCW machines, and the grating whirring of the dot-matrix models of old. In performance terms my own layman's opinion is that you now get fabulous text and pictures out of modern printers so quality - unless you have very particular and discerning professional needs and eyes a lot better than my old eyes - isn't a major question. As my son would say, 'It's all good.'
The truth is that I'm delighted my new printer is black because my keyboard, PC and home-studio gear and even my clock, are black. That means it looks better than the Canon PIXMA IP1600 which is designed to match old beige PC equipment. It's a reliable printer that can produce clear A4 photos and crisp black text. It didn't matter to me that it wasn't supplied with a USB lead for connecting it to my computer because I just pulled my existing one out of the Canon PIXMA IP1600 and stuck it in the Canon PIXMA IP1800. If you are buying one from scratch, of course, it might matter to you as you'll have to pay for a USB lead.
Technical things like: "4,800x1,200dpi" don't mean a lot to me. That's how many dots per inch it can do. A photo looks like a photo - that's all that matters for my purposes. A review I was looking at just now thought it was quite a slow printer. It takes a couple of minutes for an A4 print of a picture. Is that a long time? I'm not a newspaper or a magazine publisher on a deadline. I used to take my Brownie to the chemist and they took days to print my tiny, blurred, monochrome snaps. I can live with two minutes for a clear-as-a-bell A4 colour picture, thanks very much.
Many of these factors, information and preconceptions may have informed my decision but the fact is that this is a really good printer for less than the cost of ink replacement.
However, you may agree with my wife as they scrape her off the ceiling of PCWorld that people shouldn't throw away printers just to save a few pounds. Well I can't say this too loudly in case she hears me but anyone whose ever seen a herd of mad women charge a jumble sale as soon as the doors open (or even before) will back me up on this point: we all like a bargain. We don't think it's big or clever to pay a few pounds more for a printer when we can get it cheaper. Pray for our lost souls or quote Marx if you see fit but mostly people like to get the best deal they can.
If you buy one you're going to have to face the same decision. When that ink runs out will you go and buy ink cartridges that cost three or four pounds more than a new printer that comes with ink included, or will you take your perfectly good Canon PIXMA IP1800 to the tip?
Although the death of the planet may be hastened by the weird pricing policies I've outlined here that make us into wanton and evil consumers, the good news is that this range of printers is super value. A budget printer like this would have been £80 easily five years ago. Now you can get one for around £26.50. That's good news for consumers though not so great for the survival of life on the planet. In fact, the ink for Canon printers hasn't gone up significantly in price. It just hasn't matched the falling price of the machines.
I leave it to your conscience to decide about the Canon PIXMA IP1800. The price is so competitive I bought one rather than get ink for my existing printer. Then again, take out some of my florid hyperbole and my acount of my wife's rant at PCWorld on the matter was real. No, honestly. She did.
Do you go want to save the planet or get a great, cheap printer - now available in black and as cheap as chips?
An important alternative to the official ink cartridges are the cheap compatible ones available. I've just Googled this and found that if you go this route you can order very cheap refills - some at around a fiver each. That's much better.
Still, be aware that an infrequently used printer can be destroyed by the use of cheap alternative ink. It can dry in the print head causing streaking in printouts. I've had it happen and even though I bought a special cleaner cartridge, nothing helped. Some printers have cartridges with a print head built into them but in the Canon IP range they're fitted into the machine and cost too much to be worth replacing.
The Canon PIXMA IP1800 gives you great pictures and text at a super-budget price. 'Proper' ink is as expensive as buying a new machine but cheap alternative ink is available. Even if the worst happens, when the machine is only £26.50, (and despite what my wife may tell you), it isn't going to be the end of the world.
Advantages: Fast printing and great picture colour. Disadvantages: Cartridge and printing roll.
I use Canon IP1800 for many years. That I know this printer problem is always about the Cartridge. IP1800 is ease use printer, can printer borderless, fast printing, great picture colour quality. With Canon Easy-PhotoPrint software, you can find many printing style with your paper. Cheap printer at Canon Printer class. If you find Ink Tank Full problem, you can find it at many site how to resolve the problem because I use it too. The weakness of ...
pchenn 04.08.2008
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Review of Canon PIXMA iP1800
Advantages: Excellent text Disadvantages: No paper tray!
...on my previous experience of Canon printers - I opted for a Pixima with FINE technology. I already have a very good photo printer in the shape of the Epson R800, and an Epson 830U which I use for rough drafts as it is on it's last legs. Fact is, I needed a printer to print decent quality letters and the odd mixed text and image sheet. I previously used an old Canon S520 but it finally gave up the ghost, and I have to say the i1800 - at about a quarter ... ...capable machine.
It prints in various modes (high, standard, draft and custom) and in high quality mode, the text is as good as any printer I've seen. It's not fast though, so if you print a lot of text you may want to look at a laser. Printing text over colour (a sample web page) was not so hot, but I don't really care!
Photo printing is acceptable, though I didn't buy it for that purpose and only printed one quick pic to get an idea. I imagine ...
pdmg 17.07.2008 (25.07.2008)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Canon PIXMA iP1800
Advantages: Value for money, design Disadvantages: Size, no paper tray
I was looking for a printer that would be good value for money. I came across the Epson iP1800 and I really fell for the colour and design and its glossy finish. What dissapointed me though was that their was no cable inside, which was to cost me another £10-15 to purchase and no paper tray for prints, somethin I have never before seen missing in a printer. The iP1800s printing quality is perfect for me, but it was a little disspointing when I printed ... ...still the images where not as impressive as my last HP printer. The software which it came with was very basic, just photo printing tools. Overall however, it is exceptional value for money, and it's design will allow the printer to fit in with most surroundings and decorational tastes. The main drawbacks for me where the size and the fact that their was no cable inside. ...
alexloukakis 11.11.2007 (13.11.2007)
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Advantages: Photo lab quality at a low price Disadvantages: None that I could see
...use the FINE Cartridge, genuine Canon inks and genuine Canon photo paper. However you can use other companies inks that are compatible. I have done this and can't really see the difference.
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Another plus for this product that I like is the Easy-to-use software which is essential to get the most out the printer. I can print beautiful digital photos in just a few clicks with the Easy-PhotoPrint. I can also can ... ...easily print basic layouts using Easy-LayoutPrint. Another thing I like and you really must check out is the perfect web printouts without the loss of page edges with Easy-WebPrint.
*************DESIGN************** Personally speaking I very much like the design of this printer and feel it is very stylish in design. It fits very easily into any surroundings. The PIXMA iP1800 is a very deep black and has a mirror finish and the corners are in matte ...
traveller10 24.05.2007 (29.05.2007)
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Advantages: Excellent printing quality, fast printing... Disadvantages: No paper tray.... nothin else..
I had my Cannon PIXMA IP1800 4 months ago. As i am a student i have to print a lot. I also print photo with this printer. The printing quality is great. The most collest thing is the design of the printer. It's shiny black. I print a lot of document with the printer. The words are soo clear. befor that i had a lexmark w2600 printer. That was no a photo printer & the printing quality of document is not like cannon. First day i print one of our family ... ...What a quality! Clean photo. this printer works great with gloosy paper. i made less noise then HP. My lexmaek also made too much noise. The speed is good. This printer print fast. Last is the printer is not soo expensive. The price is affordable for students. But there is no paper tray with this printer. Thats ok. This is a right printer for Home use. ...
alifuzzaman 20.06.2008
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Canon PIXMA iP1800
Take advantage of high quality photo printing at an affordable price with PIXMA iP1800. Print borderless photos up to A4 size with ease. Also print perfect documents, web pages and schoolwork fast and efficiently.
