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Canon PIXMA iP6600D Photo Inkjet Printer (2400x9600 DPI, Color, 42KB, PC/Mac)
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Latest Price: $125.61
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Media Handling
| Manual Feed Slot | Yes |
| Maximum Number of Input Trays | 2 |
| Maximum paper size, height | 14.0 inches |
| Maximum Sheets With All Paper Trays | 150 |
| Output Tray Capacity | 150 |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 2 |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Standard input sheet capacity | 150 |
| Duplex printing | Yes |
Connectivity
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| Parallel Port | No |
| Serial Port | No |
| USB 1.1 | Yes |
| USB 2.0 | Yes |
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Pros
Big color LCD display
Very high quality photo prints
Cons
Lacks PictBridge support
Bottom Line
A big color LCD and two-sided printing make the well-designed iP6600D attractive. It prints high-quality photos quickly.
Canon Pixma iP6600D
PIXMA iP6600D Photo Inkjet Printer (2400x9600 DPI, Color, 42KB, PC/Mac) Review, by Paul Jasper December 20, 2005
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.
The iP6600D can hold sheets of different sizes, and a lot of them. A drawer in the base of the printer takes up to 150 sheets of letter-size paper, sticking out of the front to do so. When holding 4-by-6-inch or 5-by-7-inch paper, the drawer remains flush with the front panel. The upright sheet feeder at the back of the printer can hold an additional 150 sheets, and accommodates up to legal-size paper. The iP6600D comes with a built-in duplexer for making double-sided prints, and before printing on the second side it waits a few seconds so the ink on the first side can dry.
Each of the printer's six ink cartridges has a red LED that flashes slowly when the ink is running low, and then more quickly as the cartridge nears empty. This handy feature makes it obvious which cartridge needs to be changed.
On photo paper, the iP6600D made very high quality prints. Photos looked bold, with plenty of contrast and fine detail, although skin tones looked more bronze than we would have liked. Grayscale images looked very attractive overall, though they had a slight magenta cast and highlights lacked some detail. Unlike the Canon Pixma iP5200R that we also tested this month, the iP6600D has no pigment black ink. Consequently, text prints from the iP5200R looked better. The iP6600D printed some larger characters with small flecks of white paper showing through, and some blotting into the paper made edges look fuzzy. The iP6600D printed distinct lines at small sizes in our line art print, though horizontal ripples in vertical lines and a gritty texture on horizontal lines marred the print somewhat. Color graphics printed on plain paper lacked detail in dark areas, and skin tones appeared unnatural; facial details looked sharp, however.
Only a few months ago we would have been extolling the iP6600D's print speeds, but the iP6600D seems a little poky compared to a few other new models. The iP6600D printed text at 3.2 pages per minute, and graphics at 1.5 ppm; its sibling, the Canon iP5200R, printed text at a ripping 8.7 ppm and graphics at 2.9 ppm. The iP6600D took 45 seconds to print a 5-by-7-inch photo, but the HP Photosmart 8250 printed the same photo in just 29 seconds.
Upshot: The iP6600D is particularly well suited for printing photos directly from a digital camera or media card, and two paper trays and a duplexer add to its versatility.
Paul Jasper
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PCWorld Lab Results
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Performance
| 5 x 7 Photo (secs) | 45.24 |
| Color Output Quality | Fair |
| Color Photo (secs) | 29.07 |
| Color Photo Quality | Superior |
| Color Photo, Best Quality Settings | 45.24 |
| Color Photo, Normal Settings | 29.07 |
| Grayscale Output Quality | Very Good |
| Line Art Output Quality | Good |
| One-Page Grayscale Graphic | 29.51 |
| One-Page Grayscale Graphic (secs) | 29.51 |
| Output Score, Color Graphics, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Color-Default) | Fair |
| Output Score, Color Photo, Best Quality Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Color-Best) | Superior |
| Output Score, Grayscale Graphics, Best Quality Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Grayscale-Best) | Very Good |
| Output Score, Line Art, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-LineArt-Default) | Good |
| Output Score, Text, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Text-Default) | Good |
| Ten-Page Word Document | 189.85 |
| Ten-Page Word Document (secs) | 189.85 |
| Tested Color Graphics Speed (formerly pf-PCWColorSpeed) | 1.5 |
| Tested Color Speed (ppm) | 1.5 |
| Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) | 1.3 |
| Tested Photo Speed (formerly pf-PCWPhotoSpeed) | 1.3 |
| Tested Text Speed (formerly pf-PCWBWSpeed) | 3.2 |
| Tested Text Speed (ppm) | 3.2 |
| Text Output Quality | Good |
| Three-Page PowerPoint Document | 141.89 |
| Three-Page PowerPoint Document (secs) | 141.89 |
| Two-Page Excel Document | 67.25 |
| Two-Page Excel Document (secs) | 67.25 |
Text Printing
| Text output quality | Good |
User Reviews
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User Reviews From Around the Web
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Reviewed by: turboaro
Strengths: Looks- cost- printing quality is awesome.
Weaknesses: Price of the ink cartridges
Overall: 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.
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Reviewed by: lyluvly
Strengths: Great printer. Speedy. Quiet. Paper feeds properly every time.
Weaknesses: serious: red blotches on faces of subjects
Overall: 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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Reviewed by: sellmen
Strengths: LCD preview, six individual ink tanks, good photo quality
Weaknesses: Slower than the competition, chipped cartridges
Overall: The ip6600D is designed mainly to be a photo printer. I wouldn't recommend it as an all around inkjet - it's slower and more expensive than the iP4200 and IP5200. As a pure photo printer, however, it's pretty good. The six individual ink tanks allow for a wide range of colors - the prints rival those of professional photo labs. My main complaint - Canon has now switched to chipped ink cartridges. The chip keeps a page count so you can't refill the cartridges, and there are no cheap replacement cartridges as of yet. The cartridges are about $12 - $15 each which is more expenive than the BCI tanks that the previous generation of Canon printers used. On the positive side, the new cartridges are said to be much more fade resistant.
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Reviewed by: shuksan_05
Strengths: Color, sharpness, speed, ease of use, lots of functions.
Weaknesses: Cost
Overall: This is a great all around printer! I've always been impressed with Canon products (cameras, scanners, photo paper), and this printer is no exception. The LCD screen provides a nice preview of your pics -- and the printer has built in photo optimization (red-eye reduction, brightness/contrast, etc), which is nice if you don't care to mess around with photo editing software on your own. Personally, I like to view and touch up my pictures on my monitor before I print, but the optimizer does a pretty good job. The vibrant colors, speed of printer and sharpness make this product a joy to use. Your prints will always look good!
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Reviewed by: lobounm2004
Strengths: Resolutions up to 9,600 x 2,400 dpi for both color and black printing, View images on 3.5" LCD screen.Flawlessly, exactly as described in quick setup guide.
Weaknesses: produced photos with an annoying red cast.
Overall: I'm a Canon fan. I bought this printer as a replacement for an old one. I have printed a variety of photos using 4x6 paper. The quality is very good but still not up to the level of a print from photo processing at Costco.Photos would require a lot of guess-work in post processing to reduce the red so the prints would come out correct.
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