As a follow-up to Canon’s award-winning PIXMA iP4200 model, the new PIXMA iP4300 Photo Printer builds upon that accomplishment, delivering ease of use, reliability and overall development in design. Canon designed this printer for customers that want great photos with no compromise on text speed or quality.

The printer features four dye-based ink tanks, plus a pigment black ink tank, which deliver sharp text and professional-grade documents, making the iP4300 printer optimal for everyday tasks like printing web pages, text documents, and presentations. With the front panel PictBridge port, consumers can directly connect any PictBridge enabled digital camera or DV camcorder to print beautiful photos with high-intensity glowing colors. The ChromaLife100 system2 helps ensure that the photos will last, while the person ink tanks also incorporate the Smart LED system to alert the user to low ink levels and to with no trouble troubleshoot issues.

The printer delivers lab quality photos, thanks to a print head that incorporates the Canon FINE (Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering) technology with 3,584 precision nozzles that produce a dazzling 9600 x 2400-color dpi5 maximum resolution, with droplets as small as one picoliter. Resolution this high is a first in manufactured goods at this price point in the Canon Lineup.

More nozzles mean faster printing. The PIXMA iP4300 Photo copier blazes through lab quality borderless 4 x 6 inch photos in an astounding 36 seconds4. For printing of important documents, print speeds can reach up to 30ppm for that black and white term paper or up to 24ppm for that full color presentation4. Besides saving time, the printer also saves paper with Auto-Duplexing, which can print on both sides of a page of paper.

The SELPHY DS810 Compact Photo Printer changes everything about how and where to print them. It’s much smaller than typical printers and it doesn’t have to be connected to your computer, so you can keep it in almost any room and print beautiful photos from there.

Design

It has a 2.5” color LCD screen that comes in handy when you print directly from a flash memory card. Its top surface is dotted with 12 well-labeled buttons and switches, plus a four-way directional pad used to navigate menus and select print quantities via the flip-up LCD screen. The memory card slots are located on the front just above the photo paper tray. It’s only about 9? x 9? x 4,” and weighs 4.2-pounds.

Features

It is compatible with Smart Media, Memory Stick, Secure Digital (SD), Multimedia Card, xD Picture Card, MicroDrive, MiniSD, Memory Stick Pro, and Memory Stick DUO. There is a USB 1.1 port on the left of the photo paper tray. There is a USB 1.1 port on the left of the photo paper tray. You can even print photos from an infrared-enabled mobile phone: just shoot, point your phone and print! And for Bluetooth equipped mobile phones, PCs and PDAs, this versatile printer is Bluetooth compatible with the optional Bluetooth adapter (sold separately).

Performance

It features Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE), which uses an innovative print head with nozzles that throw out reliable, precise ink droplets as small as two peculators. This patented technology produces an outstanding resolution of up to 4,800 x 1,200 dpi, for exceptional detail and photo practicality. You won’t have to wait long; it can print a beautiful photo lab quality 4? x 6? photograph in about 63 seconds–in a straight line from your PictBridge enabled camera.

What’s built-in in the package: SELPHY DS810 Compact Photo Printer, FINE cartridges: BCI-16CL color, power cord, document kit. Digital cameras and mobile phones have changed the rules about taking photos. Now, the SELPHY DS810 Compact Photo Printer changes everything about how and where to print them. It has a USB port to attach to your computer, a PictBridge USB port for between a well-matched digital camera, and card slots that fit many types of digital camera memory cards. The buttons and menus on the front are easy to follow and use. Quickly and without difficulty print pictures. Its screen makes it easy to alter how the printer prints your images.

The Canon Pixma MP800 Multi-Functional Printer lets you to do so much it’s like having a mini-photo lab in your own home. Print direct from most memory cards, well-matched digital cameras and mobile camera phones to create outstanding quality photos. You can even create your own label designs and print them in a straight line onto printable CDs and DVDs. Scan film unhelpful and slides to your PC or use the Photo Reprint function to print them on the spot. The MP800 also features a huge 3.5 inch color LCD screen making it easy to view and supplement your photos without using a computer. These features and many more make the PIXMA MP800 the total All-in-One photo solution.

Features of the Canon Pixma MP800 Multi-Functional Printer:

(1). Print your photos directly from compatible digital cameras, memory cards, mobile phones or film

(2). ChromaLife 100 ink for beautiful, long-lasting photos

(3). Features a huge 3.5 inch colour LCD screen for viewing images from film or memory cards

(4). 1 picolitre FINE print-head technology results in sharper text and precise image detail

(5). Produce high-definition photos and documents at up to 9600 x 2400 dpi

(6). Create true borderless 6″ x 4″, 5″ x 7″ and A4 size photos

(7). Print a borderless 6″ x 4″ photo in around 36 seconds

(8). Print and copy at up to 30 ppm black and 24 ppm colour

(9). Scan beautiful excellence film, photos and documents at up to 2400 x 4800 dpi

(10). Also features dual paper path, auto duplex and CD/DVD printing

New printer, you wonder why anybody would ever buy a printer that costs more than the i320! On paper, at slightest, it claims to be able to “print professional quality documents and photographs at 2400 x 1200 dpi, with a high printing speed of 10 ppm .” in addition, “this printer is also equipped with a full speed USB 2.0 interface .”

As far as normal print quality is concerned, this is indeed good. As for photos, however, you’d better print them only infrequently. Photographic paper doesn’t come cheap, the inks are expensive, and the ink droplets are visible. As for speed, true, the i320 is fast, but let’s not exaggerate. At standard decree, it runs at around six pages per minute.

But wait, as the saying goes, we’ve saved the best for last. The i320 is “a full-speed USB 2.0.” Oh yeah? If you think that because your PC is USB 2 well-matched, the i320 will work faster, you’d be wrong. Let’s not puzzle USB 2 full speed printers with USB 2 high speed printers. The manufacturers are happy to maintain this bewilderment, of course, but only high velocity printers can take advantage of the fast new 480 Mbits/sec border. The USB 2 full speed buffer only guarantees compatibility with the new average. Data transfer still takes place at the same old speed as for the USB 1.1, namely 12 Mbits/sec. So, to put it directly, the i320 is just a USB 1.1 printer, the same as the rest.

First Impressions

The casing is surely original, but the mechanics of the printer are not. Under the hood, the engine is very like to that of the earlier S300 model. Print speed is almost identical, and like the S300, the i320 is powerless of printing A4 size right to the edge of the paper, without a margin. Just as with the HP, you have to reconcile for a 4 x 6 inch (10 x 15 cm) format without a margin.

Another responsibility of the i320 is that it is rather noisy. Here, the paper feed system is as guilty as the print head carriage. This is not serious in itself, but since we have tested silent printers previously (the S750, i550, etc.), we have become used to the luxury of silence and are getting picky.

The Tests

We carry out all the usual tests: printing text and composite documents in monochrome and color, in standard and coarse resolution, high meaning, etc. All the tests are portray here in detail.

Calculating the Cost Per Page

We were very surprised when we performed this calculation - and this is the printer’s main disadvantage - because, according to our capability, printing with the i320 costs more per page than it does with the S300, S330, etc., yet it uses the same cartridges and print heads! We couldn’t believe it, so we do the test again, three times, but there was no question about it.

We wasted three sets of cartridges drama the tests three times and getting the same result each time. Weird! Was there something wrong with the model we tested? We only had one i320 available, so we weren’t able to try the experiment using a new peripheral so as to evaluate them. In any case, even though the difference is major, amounting to five otherwise six cents in color and one cent in black-and-white per page, it isn’t catastrophic. The i320 remains within the average cost per page for all inkjet and bubble jet printers, but this cost is twice that of Canon printers with separate ink tanks.

As a reminder, the cost of black-and-white printing and color printing per page is assessed on the basis of ink coverage of:

(1). 10% black per page for monochrome;

(2). 5% per color (5% black, 5% cyan, 5% magenta, 5% yellow) per page for color.

Speed Test Results

The i320 runs at the same speed as the previous model, the S300. As a general rule, with an output of nearly six pages per minute, it’s two times as fast in black-and-white as in color, and it produces 4 x 6 inch (10 x 15 cm) photos in less than two minutes. These speeds are fairly similar to those of the slightly more expensive S330 and the C62 from Epson. The comparable HP inkjet printer in a similar price range, the Deskjet 3820, is slower.

Print Quality

In general, the sort of people who buy this type of printer do so because they want an inexpensive peripheral that is able to print everything, and even produce reasonable photos. The i320 will meet their needs. As long as you don’t press your nose against them, the photos that it prints are quite acceptable. To be more specific, the colors are very bright and attractive, but the photos are as grainy as those in which the sensitivity has been pushed to the limit, as if the camera were set permanently to 400 ISO. Of course, the graininess is linked to the ink droplets that are slightly too large to be invisible. On the other hand, as long as the print heads are correctly aligned, the horizontal lines are well concealed.

As for text, the rough mode is more gray than black. It can be used to check the layout of a document or to speed-read a printout of a Web page or a note, but it won’t do for printing professional-looking documents. This is best done at default resolution, which produces text approaching laser quality. The black is deep and the letters are correctly shaped and have no particular defects. There are three faults that we noticed, however. In graphics, large expanses of black are not uniform and characters printed on color backgrounds are less legible. As a last complaint, it’s hard to work on both sides of the paper manually because the ink penetrates the paper too deeply. In comparison with its rivals, the i320 performs just as well as the HP Deskjet 3820 and better than the Epson C62 .

Then it’s up to you to not depart it lying around, beyond in a corner, because the print heads could become blocked if not used. So, don’t use it too much, but don’t stop using it altogether, otherwise the print heads will clog. In any case, if you only intend to use it infrequently, if it needs to be installed, for example, on top of the PC at your country retreat, it might be worth bearing in mind either an HP or a Canon. HP printer ink is extra expensive, but the turn out heads are an necessary part of the cartridges, so if they become stopped up you just have to restore the produce head and the printer will work like new. This is not the case with Canon, where the print heads are part of the printer mechanism.

Canon revealed today a horde of new digital imaging products. One of these is the opaque and portable Pixma mini320 Compact Photo Printer, priced  $180 round .

The Pixma mini320 is the first in its compact photo printer relatives to print what Canon says are photo lab quality images up to 5-inches x 7-inches. The printer comes with a 2.5-inch LCD screen with wide viewing angles and offers a scroll wheel border. Consumers can print photos from well-matched memory cards, digital cameras or camcorders, Bluetooth devices and a like-minded camera phone.

Portability is offered via a retractable handle, fold up design and not obligatory battery. This sounds like a immense printer for printing out on demand those digital images grandma wants, though we think it would have been pleasant if Canon included the series with the printer as standard.