Canon Pixma iP1700

The Canon Pixma iP1700 is a surprisingly qualified low-cost picture printer with a minimalist design. The leading and front panels flip open to create an input location or to offer accessibility to the black as well as tricolor ink cartridges, but only the paperwork reveals you how to execute these procedures-- the equipment offers you no noticeable aesthetic cues. The printer's control board includes a few buttons and also lights, classified with puzzling icons. There's no output tray.

The HTML-based documentation provided an extensive explanation of the control panel. Yet when I checked the published Quick Start Overview, I located a disturbing error: Its description of the Resume/Cancel switch shows a finger pushing the Power button rather. Imagine following that instruction in the middle of a job. In some people respects the printed as well as HTML documentation readies.

Canono verdo the helpful packed software program. Easy-PhotoPrint and also PhotoRecord let you modify, arrange, and print electronic images. Easy-WebPrint helps you format and print Web web content so that it doesn't run off the page.

In our examinations, the Canon Pixma iP1700 held its very own. It printed our ten-page text file at 8.6 web pages each minute-- slower than the like-priced Lexmark Z845, yet faster compared to many more-expensive models. High-resolution shiny pictures published at a stylish 1.3 ppm.

Print top quality sufficed. Text examples looked black and smooth despite downy edges to some letters. Many shade images looked natural, though some dealt with limited comparison as well as banding, even when printed on shiny image paper.

It would certainly be very easy to sneer at a $50 (as of January 6, 2007) printer, however not Canon Pixma iP1700. For the cash, you get great general rate and output, in addition to some practical concessions.