Canon Pixma iP2600 Photo Inkjet Printer (2435B002)

This printer was bought due to the low price and I hoped for the best possible. Well, I am fully happy with what I got for the money without a doubt

Good printer.

Waste of time & money. I got this printer because I just needed a home printer to print out maybe 10-15 pages a MONTH. Not a lot. The cartridges that came with it didnt last long, but I expected this as the ones they include are usually smaller capacity. Since the replacements were almost as expensive as the printer, I refilled the cartridges, and they worked fine. About 2 weeks later, I went to print again, and the printer said both carts were of ink... they werent. Apparently, the cartridges have a chip on them that tells the printer they are out of ink, regardless of how full they actually are, making it unable to print. Another way to make sure you spend dollar after dollar on refills from Canon. I used to like Canon... I always thought their prints looked better than HP or Epson. But this move just smacks of greed.

What I ORDERED was a new printer, and while I haven’t yet tried hooking it up, it doesn’t look like a new one. Their are no power cords, no instructions and it was shoved into too small a box which was then put into another box of the same size. This may have to be sent back. NOT acceptable!

Dull photos? Ha! More like best-kept secret. $30 is a STEAL for print quality at this level. In 10 minutes anyone half-serious about photography or digital color can have this little thing churning out some decidedly nice looking output on a wide variety of stock. Think color space. Then think luminance. Spend 10 minutes calibrating this thing and, erm, holy cow. Bright, screen-true prints with bandless gradients and a dynamic range thatll handle almost anything the 8-bit world can throw at it. 30 bucks? Two $20 (retail) cartridges? Are you kidding me? MY PICTURES ARE DULL AND WASHED-OUT! So adjust your printer. This basic calibration process should be performed on any new printer if youre serious about image quality. You need to make your printouts look as much as possible like the corresponding images on your monitor. Even if youre not obsessive about the subject, they should still come pretty close (assuming the device is for general use or generic proofing). A. In the driver settings dialog, on the Main tab, change Color/Intensity to manual, and click the Set button. This brings up a new dialog. B. Skip immediately to the Matching tab, and change the settings as appropriate. You need to learn about color spaces if youre serious about digital images, but most likely your actual display is set to a profile called sRGB, which corresponds to ICM->Standard on this driver settings screen. C. Go back to the color adjustment tab. Now youre going to start tweaking the machine to compensate directly for the poor-quality output. Youre going to make changes, and then print out a calibration image to see if youve hit your mark. You can download calibration images on the web, which are often collages that include color gradients, color charts, skin tones, nature scenes, lighting variations, grayscale images, etc. Or you can make a collage from your own images. Just make sure it covers the subjects and attributes youll be printing most. Usually if I can hit skin tones, everything else falls into place. REMEMBER: The goal is not to get appealing skin tones. The goal is to get skin tones that match what you see on your monitor. Also, remember that your monitor is a source of light, and a photo is not. A printout needs to be lit sufficiently to make a fair comparison with its digital counterpart. D. Start with the Intensity and the Contrast sliders. Move them SLIGHTLY to the right. I started at 4, printed a test, and then went in increments of 2 before finally arriving at an optimal value of 8 for both settings. You may get better results adjusting them more or less, in sync or not, whatever. Depends on how your monitors calibrated, among other things. E. Thats PROBABLY all youll have to do. But if theres a printout problem thats truly a question of a colors ***hue*** (which shouldnt occur if youve matched the profiles) and not its ***luminance***, you can adjust the ink volume CMY sliders at the top. I personally didnt have to do this. BUT THE INK RUNS OUT TOO FAST! 1. The 30/31 cartridges that came with your printer are fully compatible with the PG40 and the PG41. Just like the box says. And your Quick Start Guide. And your manual. So what? Well, the 40 and the 41 give somewhere between twice and three times the yield of the 30 and the 31. And they cost the same. Go figure. 2. If you want a high-volume printer, you bought the wrong machine. The 30 bucks shouldve been a hint. ;-) MY SHEETS FALL ALL OVER THE FLOOR! Umm, swing the little arm out.

For the price, its worth it. Pros: - Decent quality. - Price: I bought mine from Wal-mart for $29.95. Cons: - NO paper tray. Which means that once it is done printing each page, that page will fall to the floor. - Ink. I spend $35 per set (1 color, 1 black cartridge). They dont last long. I had a 250 page report to print out (no color, all black and white text) I put in brand new cartridges before and did not get through the entire thing. So it took me 2 of each to do 250 pages. I know other brands like HP you can get more out of for less money. Do the research before you buy. Look at the cost of the printer AND the cost of the ink. If the manufacturer does not tell you how many pages each cartridge will print; keep looking.

Ive been searching high and low for a good printer, settled on this one due to the good reviews and ordered it from newegg. Went through the non-trivial install process for OSX 10.5, and the print driver is absolutely useless. When printing from programs like Adobe Reader, Firefox or Preview, I have absolutely NO printing options. I have to print the entire document, in full color. The only program that seems to have access to the full driver is MS Office for some reason. Canon support was not helpful in this issue at all. They basically said Oh well. We dont support all features in OSX 10.5. Good thing it was a cheap printer and Im not out a whole lot of money. Seems like some people are using it with OSX 10.5 just fine, so if there are ways to get the driver to work, please advise!

Ive mostly used this printer for the last few years of college; alot of text, color powerpoints, etc. but not so much full-size color photos. I agree it is a bit of an ink sucker but I have found you can get quite a bit of mileage from the cartridges after the low warning comes on. I keep a new cartridge handy and dont replace until it physically runs out. The occasional reprint is worth it to me because of how many more jobs I can get out of it that way. Other than that, the printer has held up beautifully to a few years of active use and I have no complaints about style, function, or features. A good overall printer, I think, if youre not photo-heavy and willing to max the cartridge.

The Canon ip2600 is slow and the prints are quite mediocre, but its cheap, so what? Well, next time I would spend a few more dollars and have a much better machine. Dont believe the

Mine worked for a while . . . but now the photo stock wont feed at all, and the only message I get is Paper out! Load paper and press resume button. Even though there are 20 sheets of photo stock in the hopper. Update: I adjusted the number of sheets in the hopper and got it to work. Not sure what the optimum number of sheets is - perhaps close to full (1/2 inch space)?