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Canon Pixma IP6600D

86

Very Good
  • Pros
  • Big color LCD display
  • Very high quality photo prints
  • Cons
  • Lacks PictBridge support
  • Pricing: Inexpensive: $199 (10/26/2005)
  • Performance: Good: 78
  • Features: Superior: 95
  • Design: Superior: 90
Find out how these four scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Pricing

Inexpensive: $199
Standard-Capacity Black Cartridge - $14.25
Standard-Capacity Color Cartridge - $14.25

Performance

Good: 78
Text Printing (Plain Paper, Normal Settings)
Tested Text Speed (ppm) 3.2 
Ten-Page Word Document (secs) 189.85 
Text Output Quality Good 
Color Printing (Plain Paper, Normal Settings)
Tested Color Speed (ppm) 1.5 
Two-Page Excel Document (secs) 67.25 
Three-Page PowerPoint Document (secs) 141.89 
Color Photo (secs) 29.07 
Color Output Quality Fair 
Color Photo Printing (Glossy Paper, Best Settings)
Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) 1.3 
5 x 7 Photo (secs) 45.24 
Color Photo Quality Superior 
Grayscale Printing (Plain Paper, Normal Settings)
One-Page Grayscale Graphic (secs) 29.51 
Grayscale Output Quality Very Good 
Lineart Printing (Plain Paper, Best Settings)
Line Art Output Quality Good 

Features

Superior: 95
Dimensions
Dimensions 26.9 by 12 by 7.3 
Weight (pounds) 15.9 
Vendor Rated Speeds
B&W Pages per Min. B&W PPM:18 
Color Pages per Min. Color PPM:17 
Resolutions
Max. B&W dpi 9600-by-2400 
Max. Color dpi 9600-by-2400 
Interfaces
Parallel Port No 
Serial Port No 
USB 1.1 Yes 
USB 2.0 Yes 
Ethernet No 
Media Card Readers CompactFlash, Memory Stick, SD Card, SmartMedia 
PictBridge Yes 
Other Interfaces IrDA, optional Bluetooth 
Drivers
Macintosh Yes 
Windows 98 Yes 
Windows NT No 
Windows 2000 Yes 
Windows XP Yes 
Linux No 
Power
Maximum Power Draw (watts) 17 
Standby Power Draw (watts) 2 
Multifunction Printer Specs
LCD Type Color 
Paper Handling
Number of Input Trays, Standard 2 
Number of Input Trays, Maximum 2 
Tray Capacity, pages 150 
Maximum Sheets With Optional Paper Trays 150 
Manual Feed Slot Yes 
Maximum Paper Size Legal 
Output Tray Capacity 150 
Auto Duplexer Yes 
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 
Vendor-Supplied Data (in Pages)
Monthly Duty Cycle 10000 
Bundled Items
Included Software Setup software and user guide (printer driver, on-screen manual, memory card utility, Easy PhotoPrint, Easy WebPrint, PhotoRecord) 
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

Superior: 90
About the Test Center

Canon Pixma iP6600D Review

by Paul Jasper

- A 3.5-inch color LCD dominates the top of the $199 Canon Pixma iP6600D. The display--the largest we've seen on an inkjet printer--flips upward, making it easy to preview images and navigate the menus, including options for touching up photos. A door on the front of the printer conceals two media card slots that are capable of reading the most common card formats (Compact Flash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Microdrive, MultiMedia Card, SD Card, and SmartMedia). But you'll need an optional adapter to use other formats (Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Pro Duo, miniSD Card and xD-Picture Card). Transferring images from media cards to your PC is relatively fast, thanks to the USB 2.0 connection between the printer and your PC. A direct-print port lets you print straight from a PictBridge-compatible digital camera via a USB cable. Unlike competing models from Epson and HP, though, the iP6600D can't print images from USB flash drives plugged into its direct-print port. However, it does have a built-in IrDA interface that lets you print from camera phones and PDAs with infrared transmitters, and an optional Bluetooth adapter is available for $80.

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User Reviews for Canon Pixma IP6600D

  • Reviewed by: turboaro

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Looks- cost- printing quality is awesome.

    Weaknesses: Price of the ink cartridges

    Overall Evaluation: This printer is great - very quite- pretty fast. I have printed many images and they look awesome. I have a few other ink jets by differant manufactures and this is hands down the best in terms of image quality.

  • Reviewed by: lyluvly

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Great printer. Speedy. Quiet. Paper feeds properly every time.

    Weaknesses: serious: red blotches on faces of subjects

    Overall Evaluation: Colors are good and very vivid.Howver, occasionally, red blotching on the forehead, cheeks, nose, chin on my prints. It was serious enough to call Canon support.They had me print one of their own jpg -- which printed very well and beautifully. Therefore, Tech said: My jpgs must be corrupted or it should print as good as their sample jpg.Subsequently, I uploaded my jpgs to Costco and ordered prints. NO problems. No red blotching.I had a friend print my jpgs from his HP printer.NO problems.Canon refuses to deal anymore with this problem and Best Buy will not accept returns over 15 days.

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