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Canon i9900 Photo Inkjet Printer

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Pros
Speedy prints
Produces great quality photos
Cons
No media slots but supports PictBridge
Lacks a control panel

Canon i9900 Photo Printer Review

by Dan Littman

- The i9900 Photo Printer is the first Canon model to add red and green inks to its palette, enabling it to reproduce a broader range of colors in photos. This $480 printer also has light photo cyan and light photo magenta inks, which Canon says will be necessary for achieving high photo quality until the company can reduce ink droplet sizes to less than 1 picoliter (the i9900 sprays 2-picoliter droplets). The i9900 is speedy, too: It output our best-quality photo in 61 seconds, faster than any other printer we reviewed. But it printed ordinary text at 3.1 ppm--slightly faster than the average of 4.9 ppm for recent photo printers, but still unpleasantly slow.

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User Reviews for Canon i9900 Photo Inkjet Printer

Reviewed by: MammothMark

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Strengths: Wonderful pictures, clarity, and natural color quality

Weaknesses: Darks are somewhat ill defined and banding is persistent problem resulting in much waste of time and supplies

Overall Evaluation: This was a wonderful printer that unfortunately has gradually become a royal pain when attempting to print high quality prints. Still works great for lower quality prints. Banding, particularly noticable in low light photo has become obvious and annoying. After, much research this seems to be a common problem that arises with use. Cleaning helps a bit, but only a bit. Be prepared to deal with this issue if you plan on printing any substantial quanity of work.
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Strengths: Great prints when the print head doesn't need cleaning.

Weaknesses: The print head needs frequent cleaning which uses a lot of ink and causes the "Ink Absorber" to fill up, which means a trip to the service center. I get about 15 prints before the heads need cleaning.

Overall Evaluation: I have always liked Canon products but the i9900 is somewhat of a disappointment. It has been costly to keep serviced as well as supplied with the expensive inks as well as time consuming to clean the print heads multiple times before getting good prints again. If you plan on only ocassional use, then the i9900 is probably for you. On the other hand, if you plan to make frequent use of this printer, you may want to consider other equivalent printers like HP or Epson before making your decision. I know I will the next time out.

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