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Canon PIXMA Photo iP1500 Inkjet Printer
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Media Handling
| Maximum paper size, height | 14 inches |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Minimum paper size, height | 6 inches |
| Minimum paper size, width | 4 inches |
| Maximum sheet capacity with standard tray | 30 sheets |
| Media sizes accepted |
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| Paper handling support |
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Vendor Rated Speeds
| Black-and-white print speed | 18 ppm |
| Color print speed | 13 ppm |
| Color photo print speed | 58 ppm |
General Features
| Functions | Printer |
| General features | Borderless Printing |
| Interface connection | USB - 4-pin Universal Serial Bus |
Canon Pixma iP1500
PIXMA Photo iP1500 Inkjet Printer Review, by Paul Jasper November 3, 2004
There's no output tray on Canon's Pixma iP1500--the printer kicks your pages straight out onto the desk. But if you're on a tight budget, this no-frills printer could be for you: $50 fetches respectable quality and acceptable print speeds in a neat little package.
The gray-and-black iP1500 has a tiny footprint, taking a bit more than 16 by 8 inches of desk space. Paper (up to legal-size sheets) feeds from an upright support at the rear. The ink cartridges have relatively low capacities, negating to some extent the printer's low purchase price.
The iP1500's 6.3 pages per minute for printing text is very good for such a low-cost printer, but graphics were closer to average, at 1.2 ppm.
Text looked more than respectable, even at small font sizes. Though we could see some slight, narrow banding on plain-paper graphics, they had very good color and contrast. On photo paper, our color and monochrome images showed a slight magenta cast, but they generally looked nice and sharp, with only a few dithering artifacts.
On our line art test, designed to expose resolution problems, the iP1500 merged the most closely spaced lines, but in less-dense blocks of lines we didn't see the banding so many other printers produce. Some blocks had obvious steps every 5mm or so, however, indicating that the print heads weren't positioned accurately on each sweep across the paper. Worse, a thin white line ran across the page in one place. Because of these flaws, we gave the iP1500 a score of Fair for line art.
Despite its billing as a photo printer, the iP1500 has no memory card slots or PictBridge-compatible USB port for digital cameras. Like many similarly priced printers, the iP1500 lacks a parallel port, but we hooked it up easily to our test PC using its rear USB port. The easy-to-install driver supplies all the settings we would expect to find, including a check box for borderless prints.
The iP1500 comes with a setup poster and a printed quick-start guide that covers basic information. The user's guide for this uncomplicated printer is supplied in HTML format and is installed along with the software package. Some of the guide's screenshots are so small that they're hard to read, but it provides plenty of troubleshooting information and a separate FAQ. Canon supplies its capable Easy-PhotoPrint software to guide you through printing photos, its PhotoRecord app for printing photo albums, and its Easy-WebPrint app to work around Internet Explorer's printing limitations. Canon provides no photo-editing software, though.
Upshot: This compact, simple home printer serves well for everyday printing tasks, and does a nice job on photos too.
Paul Jasper
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Reviewed by: jscanlon0
Strengths: It sometimes works
Weaknesses: It almost never finds the paper
Overall: I hate this printer!!!I have never found a printer worse than this!!!! Spens a couple of bucks and get a good printer. This one will disappoint. BELIEVE me you will hate this printer.
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Reviewed by: acatiny
Strengths: pretty good quality pictures, small, pretty compact, easy setup and configuration, prints fairly fast when on standard mode, great price, good variety of settings you can customize to fit your needs
Weaknesses: no receiver tray, a little loud (can be improved a bit by setting to quiet mode), quality isn't great on standard mode when printing finer/smaller text or graphics, very slow on better quality
Overall: The lack of receiving tray is inconvenient for me because I have very limited space and the printer usually has to print off of an edge, I have to wait with my hand under it. I usually miss and it flies all over the place. Not very fun. It tends to suck up ink fast but, if you can figure out how to use and ink injection kit, it's a good way to keep the price way down and I don't think it makes a difference in quality or anything. It's just a little messy when your doing it! And, yes, it is possible to use injection to refill the multicolor cartridges. It may seem obvious to most, but some people just don't believe me when I tell them that.
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Reviewed by: wordup
Strengths: Can beat the Epson Stylus 680 in top trumps
Weaknesses: Can not beat an egg
Overall: Wish it could beat an egg. The only issue i have with this printer is the fact that i can not put it in my pocket. I often like to print outdoors. I find that this priniter is ok if you wish to print in the bath but other than that it's crap.
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Reviewed by: ricoscoro
Strengths: price, photo print good
Weaknesses: cartridges don't last long
Overall: This is a great printer for the price, great photo quality print for only $50 is great. Cartridges don't last long, like 150 pages for black, but cartridges are cheap. Just make sure to keep plenty of cartridges around.
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Reviewed by: cenglerp
Strengths: price and print quality
Weaknesses: a little noisy
Overall: I'm very pleased with this Canon printer. It was really inexpensive and the set up from the box was very easy. It ia a little noisy, but the print quality is better than my old HP 930C. The cartridges are also inexpensive and easy to find. Overall, I am very happy with this printer.
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