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Canon Pixma IP1600

77

Good
  • Pros
  • Inexpensive
  • Compact
  • Cons
  • No PictBridge port or media card slots
  • Manual print head alignment
  • Pricing: Very Inexpensive: $50 (9/13/2007)
  • Performance: Good: 78
  • Features: Poor: 49
  • Design: Good: 71
Find out how these four scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Pricing

Very Inexpensive: $50

Performance

Good: 78
Text Printing (Plain Paper, Normal Settings)
Tested Text Speed (ppm) 6.6 
Three-Page Word Document (secs) 60.02 
Ten-Page Word Document (secs) 90.78 
Text Output Quality Fair 
Color Printing (Plain Paper, Normal Settings)
Tested Color Speed (ppm) 1.9 
Two-Page Excel Document (secs) 59.92 
Three-Page PowerPoint Document (secs) 108.15 
Color Photo (secs) 26.46 
Color Output Quality Good 
Color Photo Printing (Glossy Paper, Best Settings)
Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) 0.8 
5 x 7 Photo (secs) 76.56 
Color Photo Quality Good 
Grayscale Printing (Plain Paper, Normal Settings)
One-Page Grayscale Graphic (secs) 28.26 
Grayscale Output Quality Good 
Lineart Printing (Plain Paper, Best Settings)
Line Art Output Quality Fair 

Features

Poor: 49
Memory (in MB)
RAM Installed 1 
Maximum Amount of RAM 1 
Dimensions
Dimensions 17.1 by 9.8 by 6.5 
Weight (pounds) 6.1 
Vendor Rated Speeds
B&W Pages per Min. B&W PPM:19 
Color Pages per Min. Color PPM:16 
Resolutions
Max. B&W dpi 600-by-600 
Max. Color dpi 4800-by-1200 
Interfaces
Parallel Port No 
Serial Port No 
USB 1.1 Yes 
USB 2.0 No 
Ethernet No 
PictBridge No 
Drivers
Macintosh Yes 
Windows 98 Yes 
Windows NT No 
Windows 2000 Yes 
Windows XP Yes 
Paper Handling
Number of Input Trays, Standard 1 
Number of Input Trays, Maximum 1 
Tray Capacity, pages 80 
Maximum Sheets With Optional Paper Trays 80 
Manual Feed Slot No 
Maximum Paper Size Legal 
Output Tray Capacity 0 
Auto Duplexer No 
Warranty & Support
Labor Warranty (years) One 
Parts Warranty (years) One 
Weekday Support Hours 16 
Saturday Support Hours 10 
Sunday Support Hours 0 
Toll-Free Support Yes 
Reliability & Service
Summary of results for all of brand's products in this category Readers rate Canon better than average in practically every reliability and support category. This stellar performance is even more impressive when you consider that Canon aced our last R&S survey too. 
Reliability of brand's products in this category
Reports of products arriving with problems Better than Average 
Reports of products with any significant problems Better than Average 
Reports of problems that render a product unusable Better than Average 
Buyers' rating of products ease-of-use Better than Average 
Overall satisfaction with reliability of brand's products in category Better than Average 
Service & Support Quality
Time spent holding for phone support Better than Average 
Overall quality of vendor's phone support Better than Average 
Reports of problems unresolved after contacting service Average 
Overall quality of service Better than Average 

Design

Good: 71
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Canon Pixma iP1600 Review

by Paul Jasper

- Priced at just $50, the Canon Pixma iP1600 will appeal to anyone on a tight budget. It comes in a neat little package and is simple to use, but this no-frills printer sacrifices several features we'd expect to see even in a low-cost inkjets. Most obviously, the iP1600 lacks an output tray, instead ejecting printed pages straight onto your desktop.

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User Reviews for Canon Pixma IP1600

  • Reviewed by: Goose106

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Price, quality, and size

    Weaknesses: A little noisy

    Overall Evaluation: I purchased this printer because it was cheaper than the ink carthriges cost for my Dell 870 printer. It seems to be a better quality printer also. It prints photos very well with high quality photo paper.

  • Reviewed by: maynardflower

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Good price, ok photo quality, compact

    Weaknesses: no output tray, no usb cable

    Overall Evaluation: Got it almost free from a combo buy together with an ibook notebook. The printer is still good enough for small volume family use. Photos come out colorful and clean, and printing speed is not bad at all. I don't often print large number of photos at home, and this printer just serves a backup.No output tray and the usb cable doesn't come along either, which perhaps is what free means.Anyway, it's a nice printer, i am satisfied with it so far.

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