Canon i 455

Advantages: Cheap, cheerful and great pics
Disadvantages: Noisier than a crashing Lancaster bomber

...on their house. The Canon i455 sounds similar. It likes to clean itself and goes through some internal mechanical acrobatics that are a joy to experience. If you liked skiffle you'll love this printer. It seems to go off like a paradiddle on a set of saucepans every time I look at it. I've had quieter motorbike accidents. So you'll no doubt be surprised to learn that I bought this printer deliberately even though I'd read that it was a bit of ...
...get photo-quality prints from the Canon i455 and, indeed, from Epson printers. That was of particular interest to me because I'd found a two for one offer at inkfactory.com that only applied to those two makes. True, the cartridges are smaller than those in my previous printer, but this is more than offset by being able to order, say, two black cartridges and get two more free - all for under £19. I'm sure that there are lots of other places with ... Read review

Advantages: Price,Easy to use, Great print quality
Disadvantages: No usb cable.

...this is for attaching a canon or a compatible digital camera which has PictBridge capability. NOTE! this product does not come with a USB cable so if you are interested in getting one of these printers you will have to buy a cable first. But what it does have in its package is , a very handy pack of 5 mini photo glossy papers, a colour and a black cartridge. And a nice software package including, CANON EASY WEB PRINT, this programme integrates ...
...easy to use applications to , need I say make printing web pages easier. Now the next two programmes confuse me a bit ( yes this is my only gripe with this product) EASY PHOTO PRINT PLUS , this programme has all the utilities an amateur photographer like me needs to enhance my photos in easy to use steps i.e. red eye reduction ( the easiest and best I've ever used), auto focus, colour balance etc. Now here's the confusing bit you then have to ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent Photo Quality Prints, Cheap, USB, Digital Camera Link
Disadvantages: A bit noisy, not ultra fast, comes without required USB cable

...buttons are its eyes, the Canon logo is its nose and the flip-down paper tray is its mouth) Then when you flip down the paper tray, it looks like it is smiling! Okay, the cuteness factor of the design coupled with my strange imagination won me over a bit, but there is more to come. Apart from the puppy dog thing, the design is pretty nifty. It sits comfortably on my desktop without taking up too much room. The paper tray as mentioned before flips ...
...the front of printer, saving space and keeping out dust. When unloaded, the paper feeder can flip down too so it rests on top of the printer, but it doesn't seal it against dust, so it does need occaisional dusting from the top. It is quite compact for its price range but not compact like the latest little tiny printers. The printer comes with an easy to follow instruction manual complete with Kinder Egg-like diagrams that had me set up in minutes, ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent print quality, cheap to run
Disadvantages: A tad noisy

...I managed to install the canon software in no time. The canon printing software has some new features to it such as a 'quiet' mode, special effects where you can add monochrome type effect to photos (such as sepia, etc) and the usual ink level monitoring /cleaning head stuff you expect to find. The i455 comes with Pictbridge functionality which allows you to directly plug your camera into it and print off photos direct. I don’t have a pictbridge ...
...how crisp text came out. Canon states this baby can do a whopping 18ppm black and 12ppm colour. I found that for pure text printing, the i455 flies, but printing pure colour is a tad slow. I suppose it all depends what quality you’re printing at, and with all printers, if your printing at max resolution (4800x1200 DPI no less!), the ppm will drop significantly. In its defence though, I found that it could handle pretty much anything that I threw ... Read review

Advantages: compact design, price of the cartridges, quality and more
Disadvantages: it broke down after years of usage but, which appliance doesn't?

...quite fast, fully compatible with canon cameras for direct printing, very good quality in photo printing. Easy to set up and not invasive software (like many Epsons). This printer served me for several years, when it broke down after not having been used it for months, it broke my heart. I loved this printer but the cost of repairing was more than the price of a brand new multifunction printer (which I bought in the end), I couldn't find this model ...
...the compact design of this Canon printer which took soo few space on my desk. All newer printers seems to priviledge an office-like wasting space design. It's a shame that Canon doesn't sell this model so much anymore. I couldn't vote it EXCELLENT because afterall it broke down but a "GOOD" is needed for this product. ... Read review