- High-quality tone copy upon many sorts of paper
- Up to 2,400 x 1,200 dpi tone resolution, 600 x 600 dpi black
- Up to eleven ppm black, 7.5 ppm color
- Convenient USB interface; Personal Computer as well as Mac compatible
- PhotoRecord program for edge-to-edge 4-by-6-inch photos
Product Description
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I got one of these with my new computer and I was sooooooooo wrong to do that. The ink is very cheep I have to admit that but the paper feeder broke after 3 months of good service. If you want a good printer go with HP if not do go with cannon. I sopouse that is the reason its 100.00 dollars.
I wrote a review of the S300 back in March shortly after I bought it. I mentioned then that it does lots of whirring and clicking. Well having owned it for a few months I can now tell you that it does WAY too much whirring and clicking.
I know it doesn’t sound like too much of a chore but 30 seconds on start up then its a race to send what ever you want printed before it goes into another 30 second cycle of spasms as it goes into rest mode. Once it has done the 30 seconds of going into rest it needs another 30 seconds to get ready to print again. If you send something to print just as it starts going into rest mode you have to wait for about a minute. The actual printing takes about 5 seconds, its ridiculous.
The print quality is still very good but I would not recommend it. I bought it thinking I don’t do much printing. The frustrations of waiting all the time make it feel like I’m a power user. Next time I’ll pop into a shop and turn a few on and off to make sure I don’t end up in the same situation.
The Canon S300 has been a nightmare. My invoices come out fuzzy and or faded. After two months of lite work it needed a part replaced. Plus the ink cartridges are so small that you have to replace them very often and office depot and other suppliers don’t carry them, so you better not run out. The only place I have found them is on the internet.
The printer worked ok for a short period of time. Its obvious from its flimsy construction that this is a budget printer. The warmup cycle is long, loud, and fairly annoying. The color printing was far below the detail on an old HP 960c printer that I also used. However it worked ok for printing text with a few graphics, things like webpages. This however is not an adequate photo printer.
Like many of the reviewers here I purchased the printer because of the Consumer Reports review and the printers low ink costs.
What the Consumer Reports review unfortunately does not emphasize is that HP ink is more expensive because the print-head is contanined in the cartridge. Compare this to Canon printers which have a static printhead that is prone to trouble.
After a short period of time my printer started to print text poorly. I replaced the ink cartridge, went through the canon series of cleaning and alignment and the problems persist. At that point your choice is spend $100+ on a new printhead or throw the printer in the garbage. I chose the latter.
Looking at the reviews for this printer I would be interested to know if people who bought it still had their rosy opinion of the printer a year or so later when the printhead failed on them. I would say many would change their opinion of it.
Canon printers look good on paper with the low ink cost. But when you factor in the design flaws: top-loading paper, static print-head. In the real world these printers dont live up to expectations.
I much prefer the enclosed, bottom loading paper, and ink-cartridge based printhead on my HP Deskjet.
This is by far one of the best printers out in the market.
Bar none.
But the little things Canon could do if they could just add one little extra: Parallel port.
Yep, this is a USB only printer and as a gadgets man, I have a scanner, external burner, digital camera,etc. I’ve got uses for my limited USB ports and I’m not happy to hog one with a PRINTER when a PRINTER already has its own PARALLEL port. Oh well, strike one for Canon.
The speed is FAST. So fast and quiet that I’m so amazed. Generally, I get around 9 pages a minute. I print color as well and it takes around 5 pages a minute. Not too shabby!
The design is awesome. Just like the S100 and S200, it looks good and is very compact. But it is heavier than the previous models, but that’s only because it is quieter and faster.
The paper feed is adequate. Hold around 30 pages. Not too bad. Glossy paper would get you amazing effects. I use it even for reports. Just looks great.