The all-new Studio 14z only $649!PIXMA iP6600D Photo Printer
Manufacturer: Canon USA Part number: 0010B001
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- Bottom Line:
- Versatile stand-alone operation and good photo quality make the Canon Pixma iP6600D appealing for digital camera owners, but slow operation and mediocre text output mean it's a bad choice for SOHO or business use.
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CNET editors' review
PIXMA iP6600D Photo Printer
price range: $309.95
- Reviewed by: David D. Busch
- Edited by: Lori Grunin
- Reviewed on: 03/08/2006
- Released on: 08/30/2005
The good: Built-in duplexing; 3.5-inch LCD and full set of controls on the printer; solid photo quality; direct printing via PictBridge, IrDA, and (with adapter) Bluetooth; Mac and Windows compatible.
The bad: Mediocre text quality; slow.
The bottom line: Versatile stand-alone operation and good photo quality make the Canon Pixma iP6600D appealing for digital camera owners, but slow operation and mediocre text output mean it's a bad choice for SOHO or business use.
User reviews
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Looks good to start, but very unhappy!
by patrickem on October 8, 2005
Pros: Nice features, good price, quiet, fast, nice colours
Cons: Using the Cassette is useless.
Summary: I bought this printer and was very excited about it until I printed a photo from the lower cassette and notice horrible scratches all along the paper. To make a ...
Summary: I bought this printer and was very excited about it until I printed a photo from the lower cassette and notice horrible scratches all along the paper. To make a long story short I have had three replacemants from Canon now, all with the same problem, but worse. Canon so far has only one solution, keep sending me printers. I have been searching for other people with this problem, so that we could contact Canon as a group. I have been so far unsuccessful in having Canon look at one of these printers to see the problem for themselves. I find it hard to believe after having four of these printers that I am the only one with this problem. Canon really needs to pick up the ball on this one.
17 out of 24 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Superb Machine
by rbrocklesby on November 22, 2005
Pros: Excellent quality, duplex printing
Cons: Can't really think of any!!!
Summary: This is my first "true" photo printer. Did loads of research on the wen and took the plunge with this machine. Took 10 mins to set up, printed a phot ...
Summary: This is my first "true" photo printer. Did loads of research on the wen and took the plunge with this machine. Took 10 mins to set up, printed a phot from my PC without changing any settings - EXCELLENT!!! Just like looking at a photo lab picture, its anmazing. The duplex engine is a wonderful add-on easy to use and works perfectly.
Individual ink tanks so no wasted ink and nice and cheap too!!
OVERALL AN INCREDIBLE MACHINE!!!12 out of 12 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great pictures
by scolvin on September 25, 2005
Pros: Beautiful pictures, speed, quiet, user friendly
Cons: Haven't found any yet, but I sure there is room for improvement
Summary: This is my third Canon printer (i860, ip4000), both of which I still use and work fine. As satisfied as I am with both of these, the ip6600d is a ...
Summary: This is my third Canon printer (i860, ip4000), both of which I still use and work fine. As satisfied as I am with both of these, the ip6600d is a big improvment on photos (both in quality and durability). If the new inks are as durable as advertised Epson is in trouble, because Canon's printers are already superior in quality, speed, and definatly ease of use. I have not tryed the card reader or direct print features yet, but I'm sure the work great. I do all my printing from my computer. If you print a lot of documents you might want to look at the ip5200.
10 out of 10 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great Printer
by Deathbringer on October 16, 2005
Pros: Very nice pictures, pretty fast.
Cons: LCD does not swivel
Summary: I bought this printer after long months of waiting to find the right printer. When I saw this one it seemed to have everything I was looking for. High quality ...
Summary: I bought this printer after long months of waiting to find the right printer. When I saw this one it seemed to have everything I was looking for. High quality pictures and pretty fast prints. I would have liked to have network ability out of the box but that can be added later so no big deal. Ive only had it for two days but I have already tested it print ability. Pictures are stunning there as good as photos prints. This printer was $200 in box. I cant believe I picked this up for that little. Again Ive had it for only 2 days but I couldn?t be happier unless they added a swivel to the LCD screen
6 out of 6 users found this user opinion helpful.
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This is one outstanding and easy-to-use photo printer.
by gcramsey on December 31, 2005
Pros: Crystal-clear photo prints that are better than many lab prints, has a smart media slot which is almost extinct, large monitor with logical menus, six ink cartridges that are relatively large(13 ml).
Cons: Color is dark silver and black which does not match my G4 lamp-shaped white iMac.
Summary: This is my first purchase of a photo-printer so I did a lot of research and hands-on-testing at the electronic stores in our city. I narrowed my choice down to ...
Summary: This is my first purchase of a photo-printer so I did a lot of research and hands-on-testing at the electronic stores in our city. I narrowed my choice down to the HP 8250 and the Cannon 6600D printers before deciding on the 6600D as a Christmas gift for my wife. These printers both sold for $199.00.
I set up the printer and installed the software several days after Christmas following the Quick Installation Guide. The whole process took about an hour since I am overly careful and went without a hitch. I had bought some Cannon 4x6 Photo Plus glossy paper and had some medium quality ink jet paper around the house for use on the initial runs. After reading some of the reviews of this machine before Christmas, I placed the ink jet paper in the lower cartridge feed of the printer and the 4x6 photo paper in the upper input tray. I would highly recommend this action since this allows you to print from either source without changing paper. Also several reviewers complained of scratches and roller marks on the prints when using the lower cartridge with photo paper. Using direct print I inserted my Smart Media card in the side slot and the printer loaded all the shots (about 200) into its memory. This took about 2 minutes. The LED monitor gives you a choice of creating a slide show with the shots filling the entire monitor with a a good picture or viewing the shots one at a time with a somewhat lower quality and smaller shot. Using the latter, continuous clicking of the right or left arrows on the large NAVIGATION button allowed me to view each shot. When you see a shot that you want to print, you just hit the PRINT button. My first print took about 45 sec but came out with great colors and perfect resolution and the machine was set to REGULAR as opposed to HIGH Quality. The HIGH setting in the menu resulted in slower processing and a print that to me was not discernably different. I have now printed about 25 shots over several days and found that all the prints were consistently fantastic. Not one dud in the bunch and these were done without making any special settings in the menu(You have a wide choice of picture settings)except for red-eye removal. To say the least, I was very impressed.
To test the printing of a black and white text document, I used the USB printer connection to my Mac and the lower cartridge of the printer. This employs the software installed in the computer and you make your settings on different dialog windows on the computer screen. Some reviewers including Macworld have said that these text prints are a little fuzzy and are a downside to this machine. I found that my print of a spreadsheet was completely adequate and with good clarity and this was done on generic paper as well(Maybe this result is due to the Mac I use
). I breathed a sigh of relief on this one.
Let me relate to you a few other advantages of the 6600D which are not widely publicized:
The six ink cartridges including the black each hold 13 ml of ink with the jets using an exceedingly fine spray. The HP 8250 has a black cartridge holding 10 ml of ink with the five color cartridges each holding about 4.5 ml. This fact really surprised me, particularly when I found out that the Cannon cartridges were just two dollars higher in price at many stores. This higher capacity and the fine jet spray certainly told me that the Cannon 6600D would probably be relatively economical.
The Cannon 6600D has a Smart Media slot which the HP 8250 lacks. This may not mean much to some of you that own rather new digital cameras but I have an Olympus digital camera which ia about 5 years old and the Smart Media is going the way of the Dodo bird.
One other point that I have not been able to test out yet is the 6600D allows for duplex printing which simply means it can print on both sides of the paper. I do not know whether the HP 8250 has this feature and this may or may not be critical to a user.
All in all, I would give the Cannon 6600 D an outstanding rating. It has so far exceeded my expectations and I could not be any happier with the high quality and consistency of the prints at this point in time. I did not find any red tint on any of my prints as some reviewers complained and no roller marks or scratches as other peoole related. However, I would definitely sugest that you use Cannon photo paper in the upper tray and place the ink jet paper in the lower cartridge.
I have owned several Epson printers in the past both of which are four or five years old. They were work horses but they were not intended to be photo printers. I am a retired professor of psychology at a large state university that taught statistics courses and I enjoy writing html from scratch. I have a web page on statistics jokes which I have maintained for eight years. I am also a solid Mac fan and have owned a number of these computers since 1984.Updated
What I referred to as "ink jet spray" should really be termed "ink jet droplets".
What I referred to as an "LED monitor" should read "LCD monitor".5 out of 5 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great Photo Printer
by Cptdj on October 20, 2005
Pros: Easy to set up and use
Cons: Software for PC modifications of print marginal
Summary: Worth the money; superior to my previous HP photo printer. They need better pc software, as HP provides.
Summary: Worth the money; superior to my previous HP photo printer. They need better pc software, as HP provides.
5 out of 6 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Exceptional
by NateFogg on November 13, 2005
Pros: Great Photos, Compact & Sleek Unit
Cons: No USB cable
Summary: What a great printer, after spending 40 minutes with the Canon rep we bought it and got home, where we printed 100 pictures. All of them with out any difficulty
Summary: What a great printer, after spending 40 minutes with the Canon rep we bought it and got home, where we printed 100 pictures. All of them with out any difficulty
4 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great photo printer, as long as you don't use Canon Paper.
by dbaxter7 on January 3, 2006
Pros: Great Colors, Fast, Easy Setup, Lots of connectivity
Cons: So-so B&W, takes some tweaking to get colors just right
Summary: I recently upgraded from an Epson Stylus Photo 820 to this Canon Pixma iP6600D after reading many, many reviews. Several people mentioned that there was a slight red cast on ...
Summary: I recently upgraded from an Epson Stylus Photo 820 to this Canon Pixma iP6600D after reading many, many reviews. Several people mentioned that there was a slight red cast on their photos, but I have not seen it. My first experience was quite poor in that every picture looked washed out. The colors were bland in comparison to my old Epson 820, and the blacks were gray. After using about 15 sheets of the Canon Photo Paper Plus Glossy, because Best Buy didn't have the Pro paper, I tried my old Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper. WHAT A DIFFERENCE! Suddenly, the colors were vibrant, the blacks were blacker (although still not as good as the Epson) and the clarity was amazing. Looking at this picture with a magnifying glass, you still couldn't see the ink droplets like I could on the Epson prints. It did take a considerable amount of time to get everything configured to look just right, but when I did, I couldn't have been happier. The Epson paper has just about the same specs as the Canon, but for some reason, it's much better. So, I took back all the Canon paper and bought more Espon. Now, I'm a happy camper. I print everything from my PC, but the option of using the card slots is a nice plus. I also have a seperate laser printer, so I can put my photo paper in the top tray so it doesn't have to curl around the unit as it would from the bottom tray. Overall, this printer produces excellent photos, although the blacks are somewhat grayer than I'd like. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix that, I'd appreciate it.
3 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
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An excellent printer beyont my expectations
by Tsoutseos on December 12, 2005
Pros: Easy to use, good menus and very good results
Cons: Paper handling
Summary: Bought this as just a photo printer. Used it before reading any manual to print photos from my SD card and got right away excellent results of almost photo lab ...
Summary: Bought this as just a photo printer. Used it before reading any manual to print photos from my SD card and got right away excellent results of almost photo lab quality pictures.
Very quiet and with the very useful Canon characteristic of separate inks. I like the leds in the new 8 series inks.
In cons. some papers loaded on the tray might be left with some faint marks of the rollers. I have seen this in other printers too but it did not bother me a lot.2 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great Photo and All Around Printer
by tantavevus on June 1, 2006
Pros: Features, speed , picture quality. text quality
Cons: None that I can think of
Summary: I too have the printer.
To all of those that reported scratches in photos printed from the lower cassette. It does produce some fine scratches if using photo paper from ...Summary: I too have the printer.
To all of those that reported scratches in photos printed from the lower cassette. It does produce some fine scratches if using photo paper from the lower tray. The answer is simple, I put my letter size plain paper in the lower cassette, and load photo paper in the upper auto sheet feeder. PErfect quality prints every time, no scratches just beautiful prints.
The lower tray was not made for the heavier stock of photo paper, since paper in that tray has to go face down. the thicker phto paper has to be pulled around a roller, neavier stock is not suited for that.
This is not a design flaw, it simply means, use the upper sheet feed for heavier stock photo paper. What is wrong with this. As you said it produces beautiful prints, fast, tons of great features. Great price. what then is the problem?
If you want a perfect printer that is 100% what you want in every way, you will never find it.
This printer for me is 95% of what I want and I think it's great.1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Canon USA
- Part number: 0010B001
- Description: The PIXMA iP6600D Photo Printer is a photo-printing powerhouse, with incredible quality and high-end convenience. It delivers an amazing resolution of up to 9600 x 2400 dpi, for detail and clarity that will surpass your expectations. To achieve this, Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a next-generation 3, 072-nozzle print head that ejects precise, consistent droplets as small as 1 picoliter. It all adds up: more nozzles + smaller droplets = smoother, virtually grain-free images. Plus, Canon's added high intensity Photo Cyan and Photo Magenta to the conventional 4 inks, to increase the accuracy of color values. The high performance doesn't stop there. The PIXMA iP6600D Photo Printer can produce a beautiful photo lab quality 4"x 6" borderless print in approximately 46 seconds. Plus, its advanced paper handling provides you with several smart printing options. The dual paper path allows you to keep two different paper types always loaded and ready to print. You can even create 2 sided photos or special photo albums with select Canon media. With the extra-large 3.5" LCD color viewer and control panel, you can evaluate and enhance the images on your compatible memory card before printing! For viewing, just insert the card into one of the built-in card slots and select the images. As needed, the PIXMA iP6600D Photo Printer will automatically correct for red eye, improve sharpness and enhance the light values on your subjects' faces. Or, you can fine-tune the image yourself using the easy control panel. Then, print directly from the memory card! You can also print directly from a PictBridge compatible digital camera or DV camcorder. You can even print directly from an infrared-enabled mobile phone! Just shoot, point your phone and print. And for Bluetooth-equipped mobile phones, PCs and PDAs, this versatile printer is Bluetooth compatible with the optional Bluetooth adapter - allowing you to print from another room. The Canon ChromaLife100 system combines the PIXMA iP6600D Photo Printer's FINE print head technology and newly developed inks with select Canon photo papers, with results rivaling that of many conventional photos. And with the new smart LED ink tanks, your LED lamp flashes when ink is running low, and flashes even faster when nearing empty.
General
- Printer Type Photo printer - Ink-jet - Color
- Form Factor Desktop
- Width 16.9 in
- Depth 12 in
- Height 7.3 in
- Weight 15.9 lbs
Printer
- Ink Palette (Colors) 6-ink
- Print Speed up to 1.3 pages/min - Photo - 4 in x 6 in, up to 0.6 pages/min - Photo - Letter A Size (8.5 in x 11 in)
- Built-in Devices Preview screen
- Preview Screen Size 3.5"
- Connectivity Technology Wired, Wireless
- Interface USB, Infrared
- Max Resolution ( B&W ) 9600 dpi x 2400 dpi
- Max Resolution ( Color ) 9600 dpi x 2400 dpi
- Direct Printing Specifications PictBridge
- Duplex Printout Duplex
- Printer Features Borderless printing
RAM
- RAM Installed ( Max ) 42 KB
Media Handling
- Media Type Envelopes, Photo paper, Plain paper, Photo stickers, Transparencies, Matte photo paper, Glossy photo paper, Two-sided photo paper, Semi-gloss photo paper
- Max Media Size (Custom) 8.5 in x 14 in
- Media Sizes 3.95 in x 5.9 in, A4 (8.25 in x 11.7 in), A5 (5.83 in x 8.25 in), Legal (8.5 in x 14 in), Letter A Size (8.5 in x 11 in)
- Envelope Sizes US No 10 (4.1 in x 9.5 in)
- Card / Label Sizes 2.13 in x 3.4 in, 2L (5 in x 7 in), US 4 x 6 Card (4 in x 6 in)
Telecom
- Modem None
Networking
- Networking None
- Connectivity Technology Cable
Scanner
- Type None
Copier
- Copier Type None
Expansion / Connectivity
- Expansion Bays Total (Free) None
- Expansion Slots Total (Free) 1 CompactFlash Card - Type I/II, 1 SmartMedia Card, 1 Memory Stick, 1 SD Memory Card
- Connections 1 x Hi-Speed USB - 4 pin USB Type B, 1 x Direct print port - 4 pin USB Type A
- Compatible Slots None
Miscellaneous
- Consumables Included 1 x Ink tank ( Black ), 1 x Ink tank ( Magenta ), 1 x Ink tank ( Cyan ), 1 x Ink tank ( Yellow ), 1 x Ink tank ( Photo cyan ), 1 x Ink tank ( Photo magenta )
- Windows Vista Readiness Certified for Windows Vista
Battery
- Type None
Software / System Requirements
- Software Included Canon PhotoRecord, Canon Easy-WebPrint, Drivers & Utilities, Canon Easy-PhotoPrint 3.3
- OS Required Apple MacOS X 10.2.1 or later, Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Environmental Standards
- EPA Energy Star Compliant Yes
Manufacturer Warranty
- Service & Support 1 year warranty
- Service & Support Details Limited warranty - 1 year
Accessories
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Canon CLI 8 - Ink tank - 1 x black, yellow, cyan, magenta (0620B010)$17.49 - $58.34
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Canon CLI 8Y - Ink tank - 1 x yellow (CLI-8Y)$3.99 - $16.85
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Canon PGI 5BK - Ink tank - 1 x pigmented black (PGI-5BK)$4.49 - $21.06
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Canon Photo Paper Plus Double Sided PP-101D - Two-sided semi-gloss photo paper - 5 in x 7 in - 273 g/m2 - 10 sheet(s) (9981A006)$16.56
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Canon Photo Paper Pro - Photo paper - Letter A Size (8.5 in x 11 in) - 15 sheet(s) (1029A004)$4.49
Manufacturer info
- Canon USA
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- Website: http://estore.usa.canon.com/
- Address:
One Canon Plaza, Lake Success, NY 11042 - Phone: 516-328-5000
- Email: mediacontact@cusa.canon.com
