Canon PIXMA IP3000

Advantages: Flexible, Cost Effective, Easy to Use, Great Value
Disadvantages: Short on Bells and Whistles

...running costs, this is because Canon supplies the printer with individual print cartridges for each colour. When you print average documents you will use some colours more frequently than others. E.g. Black ink is used a lot faster than other colours. Most printers have the opportunity to fit a black cartridge separate to the colour cartridge. Canon has taken this idea a stage further. If you print a lot of photographs you might need extra blue for ...
...this is another way that Canon has avoided wasted cost. However if you don’t have one and forget to order you will be frustrated when you unpack the box. When choosing a cable be careful as these things are available for £3 or less but some suppliers will charge £15 for the same thing. Make sure you don’t just bundle it from the same supplier. Inkjet technology: This is an ink jet printer rather than a laser or dot matrix printer. The inkjet technology ... Read review

Advantages: Long lasting ink, CD printing, two trays, easy to use software package.
Disadvantages: None.

I purchased this printer during the boxing day sales, and it's exceeded all of my expectations. I know that printers are often sold at a loss as the manufacturers think they'll make it back in ink purchases, but this seemed too good to be true! In all honesty, I didn't know an awful lot about what I was buying, it just looked pretty good and was on special offer. It was only when I got this printer home that I realised what a bargain I'd grabbed ...
...two paper feeders, one being a tray which is very handy for just stacking your plain A4 in. The other "standard" top loading feeder is ideal for feeding in different sized paper, photo paper, or perhaps different coloured paper, that you wouldn't usually use. The beauty of the two trays is that a simple button on the front of the printer allows you to instantly switch, and whatever tray you select will be the one that operates when you print. There's ... Read review

Advantages: Superb Print Quality, Exceptional borderless Photos, Fast, Cheap Compatible Ink Cartridges, Well Made, Prints on printable CDs/DVDs too
Disadvantages: No parallel connection. Does not make coffee

...bubbles and early failure. Canon have been at the leading edge of product design and innovation for years. And NO I don't work for them. I love their cameras, lenses and now their printers (but not the cheap ones). Sorry to sound prescriptive, but the Canon cheap range printers use tiny cartridges that run out very fast and cost the same as the bigger ones for iP3000. Setting up the iP3000 was a doddle and the software installation is hassle ...
...dead cheap (although the genuine Canon ones are quite dear). The iP3000 takes four cartridges, a large BCI-3eBk black and three seperate BCI-6 c/m/y cartridges, meaning that you don't waste a load of ink having to replace an entire cartridge just because one colour has run out. BEST place for cartridges, www.choicestationery.com superb service too. You get a full set of cartridges supplied with the printer, but at some time you will need replacements. ... Read review

Advantages: Ability to print straight onto the surface of a CD
Disadvantages: Front door flap for outgoing paper tends to bang down giving you the impression that it may break

I had no idea printers these days had the ability to print as fast as this one does, until there was an IP3000 bought for Christmas. It seriously feels like as soon as you put the paper in, the printer has done its job and spat it out again! Fantastic! I have noticed there is a higher model of this called the IP4000 which can print slightly faster. But if you ask me, an extra £30 purely to save an extra couple of seconds on print isn't worth it. ...
...^^^^ Features ^^^^ I suppose the most noticable function the IP3000 can perform is printing direct onto a CD surface. There is a CD drawer in which you simply insert a blank CD and away you go. Of course you would need blank faced CDs. The cheapest ones I managed to find were from PC World. They're Verbatim make and they cost £6.99 for 10. The software you will need to print in a circular shape is included on the drivers CD, along with other useful ... Read review

Advantages: Fast for Most jobs. Prints onto CD
Disadvantages: Not many

This is a high quality product form Cannon. It is seriously good. It is the fastest inkjet I have seen for text and composite (text & graphics) documents. However it still cant hold a candle to a decent laser printer if your after fast printing, other than the price. This isnt really a printer designed for speed though. And whilst it does do fine printing fast documents, its photo printing where this printer really shows its worth. It can do seriously ...
...to differentiate from a photo lab equivilant. The printing speed does slow down considerably when you put it into really high quality, but that is to be expected, and is (in my eyes) a reasonable exchange. Mechanically this is a well designed machine. It is simple to use, with two paper feeds, a cassette that juts out the bottom, and a top loading tray. The lid does need to be opened when printing, somewhat removing its rather nice design. Feature ... Read review