Only if you must travel and print

Advantages: Lightweight, highly portable
Disadvantages: Quality of print, fragile

...Technology marches forwards and for many members of society with an above cretinous IQ sometimes the purpose of technology is slightly lost. Years ago now, we took delivery of some laptop computers. The powers that be had decided that as laptops were portable, they must be packaged in huge, hernia inducing, laptop cases and include a 'portable' printer. Enter, stage left, the Canon BJC85. Grown up brother of a mono printer that preceeded it the purpose of this printer is slightly lost on me. Please, decide what you need to print before you leave home, the office or wherever. Print it there in good quality and then take it with you. A ream of paper is a similar weight to this baby so if you're not quite sure which page you require or how many, print loads. I was sat in a car the other day making a relatively short journey through...

Plymyphil 20.01.2004 · Read review
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Review of Canon BJC 85

Cute printer gives you what you need on the move

Advantages: Portable, cheap to print, small size on desk
Disadvantages: Slow, only average print quality

...I've had this printer for about 4 years, which I think is a pretty impressive length of time. I don't use it every day, but it does get used regularly. I bought it as I was attracted by its portability. You flip the lid down and it as as small as a medium sized hardback book, so it can go with you with your laptop. I paid about £150 for it, but I'm sure that it would only be a fraction of that now. It prints either in colour or in black and white, and there are two ways of doing this: 1. The cheapest way to print is to use the black ink cartridge BCI 10 - these cost about £5 for a pack of three and each one last me weeks and weeks. hen if you want to print the odd thing in colour you insert a colour cartridge.Switching between the two requires you to take the B/W cartridge out and put in the colour one. This is not a huge faff...

sadoldbag 07.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Canon BJC 85

Canon Quality

Advantages: Same Canon quality we have come to expect, great ISO capabilities.
Disadvantages: Buttons can get fiddly in the cold.

... Canon 500D Introduction Canons range of cameras is very impressive. Everyone can be accommodated for, there really is something for everyone. Camera Itself First off, the camera. The sensor on this model has a larger pixel count than many of its rivals and cheaper models in the range. The 15.1 megapixels on offer is more than enough for the market it is aimed at, these images will easily be blown up above A3 and still retain most of the detail. The new addition to this camera that sets it apart from the older models is the Full 1080p movies. Many photographers don?t like this new mode but if you don?t, then simply don?t use it. Having the functionality of a high quality video camera on family holidays and such will be welcomed by the enthusiast market at which this is aimed toward. One problem I found...

aadamm 23.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Canon EOS 500D

An interesting review about........er......INK!

Advantages: Good colour - long-lasting
Disadvantages: They cover idiots in ink

...Hey ho. How surreal to be reviewing ink. Does anyone else do this? Why am I sitting here at 10 o\'clock at night reviewing an ink cartridge? Do I love it? No. Err.......have I had an unusual and vaguely witty experience with this cartridge? Not really. Was I bored and thought I\'d go do a review about the first thing I found that I owned and hey look........2 pound signs!!! Woo! That\'ll be it. To be fair, I use a lot of these things here and at work (see scintillating review of canon i550) so I suppose I\'m as qualified as anyone. It\'s good ink - of course it is. Canon would not be popular if their branded ink was pants. It has super coverage and definatly stands proud where you compare it to the compatibles. This is especially true of photo-printing on photo paper. Am I sure? Yep. In the main corridor in school we have got...

dhillcrest 15.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Canon BCI 3E - ink tank (BCI3EY)

Great ink, not so great price

Advantages: Easy to fit, built in LED warning light
Disadvantages: Expensive for 13ml capacity and is chipped

...These new ink cartridges come in Cyan, Magenta and Yellow as well as Black and are for the Canon Pixma iP4200 and other similar printers. There is absolutely no difference apart from the colour of the ink in them. Where to buy ************** I get mine from Maxsave.com @ £7.07 inc P&P OR from Ebuyer @ around £7.50 (different prices for different colours for some reason) with free P&P. What do you get? ****************** You effectively get a small clear plastic box 1cm x 4cm x 7cm. This box is split into two compartments - Towards the back of the box and taking up about 2/3 of the length is a sponge. There is a hole in the base of the box under the sponge where the ink passes to the print head. To make the box ready for insertion into your printer you simply snap off an orange plug to open the hole. and push the unit...

Rob099 24.07.2006 (25.07.2006) · Read review
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Review of Canon CLI 8C - ink tank (0621B001)

THINK INK!

Advantages: Easily obtainable, good value, recyclable.
Disadvantages: Really just the idea of it not being a genuine new original!

...asked and got a refund! I WENT TO TESCO! Being out of ink, and having sent the replacements back, I needed ink badly; I couldn't print off any of my holiday snaps to bore colleagues with at work! A speedy trip to Tesco followed, just to see what they sold and I was amazed! New ink cartridges in many well known brands, and their own remanufactured cartridges lined a back wall. CHOOSING YOUR INK: Tesco provide a laminated flip paged book showing many makes and models of printers they can supply ink for. There is a colour coded indexed list of the four most popular names: HP - Yellow LEXMARK - Green EPSON - Blue CANON - Red There is also a smaller section for other makes including 'Brother' 'Samsung' 'Dell' and 'Kodak' You look for the pages for your printer, find the page covering the model number, and see...

little_red_hen 15.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of Tesco Remanufactered Ink Cartridges

Miami Ink!

Advantages: Interesting to watch, loads of cool tattoos to look at
Disadvantages: Often I find myself wanting a tattoo done by Chris Garver but unfortunately I don't live in Americ

...Miami Ink, if you haven't heard about it already, is a TV show about a tattoo parlour in Miami (if you hadn't already guessed!). The series began in July 2005, introducing four eager tattooists, Ami James, Chris Nunez, Chris Garver and Darren Brass, as well as Ami's apprentice, Yoji Harada. Throughout the episodes new tattooists enter and go, the most famous probably being Kat Von D who turned the studio around with her beautiful portrait tattoos. Each show lasts about an hour long, and during that time we see a variety of clients enter the studio to get their tattoos. The guys who run/work in the studio are all fairly young, heavily tattooed and have been through different walks of life. Most of them have spent their lives tattooing, so working in the shop you can tell means a lot to them. Each artist has a different personality...

Stephoohla 06.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Miami Ink - Series 1 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

Canon or a Brother ?

Advantages: Good print Quality
Disadvantages: Cartridge prices

...This review is for the Canon Pixma IP4700. Setup --------- This printer comes inside a box which is heavily packaged and first off all you get the power cable. The cable is wrapped with this tie back but the problem is that when you unwind the cable you notice how it wants to try and curl back up again so you do need to try and straighten it out as soon as you can. You receive the disc which has the drivers on which you need to install on the computer otherwise you have no way of printing items off without it. There is nothing else inside the box besides the cartridges which are easy to insert and use. The disc is good because it is so simple to install the items onto the computer and this takes about a minute to do. You do not get a connection to the computer though so you do need to purchase one yourself and many websites...

tink-er-bell 22.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Canon PIXMA iP4700

A slightly less explosive Canon.

Advantages: Typically good Canon images.
Disadvantages: Poor flash and feels a bit flimsy.

...Canon along with Nikon have for years been known as the kings of camera`s but with things changing rapidly in the DSLR market Canon had to think fast. All of Canons recent releases have been at the expensive end of the market and they have been rapidly losing ground to the likes of Nikon and the new kids on the block (Sony). The release of the Canon EOS 1000D in June this year (2008)was an attempt to get back in the entry level market and whilst I think it should have the desired effect I am still not convinced they have done enough to tempt people away from the less expensive Sony option. Many people myself included thought that the new Canon would just be a fresher version of the Canon EOS 400D and the only stand out feature available on this 1000D that the 400 did not offer was a live view, so were Canon trying to pull the wool...

thebigc1690 08.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Canon EOS 1000D

Canon S9000 - ink it great!

Advantages: Up to A3 (large) print size; Fast; Superb Results
Disadvantages: Small ink tanks

...As a replacement for my old Lexmark, this Canon is light years ahead. What were my needs? ------------------------------- - An A3 (wide format) printer to be able to self-print mini-poster size pictures - Separate ink tanks (to reduce running costs) - High quality - need this at A3 paper size (=double A4 size) - Quiet - Resonably priced - Able to reproduce a 4 megapixel digital image at A3 in photo quality output Source ---------- In order to get the best price, I sourced this from France via Nomatica. Eventually it was shipped from Germany (the benefit of a pan-European market). There were delays in supply at the time but the price was at least £100 cheaper than the best UK source. At over £250 this was not a cheap printer, but at the time was top of the Canon bubble jet technology. What you Get...

a4angus 22.03.2005 · Read review
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