Canon i9900

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I read a review on Steve's Digicam aboput the i9900 from Canon.

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/canon_i9900.html

This looks like someting I may want to replace my Epson 890 for photo
printing. Only thing I don't see is price/print info. Can anyone give me the
following info:

-Price per 8x10 print
-Price per 5x7 print
-Price per 4x6 print
-How many 8x10 prints do you get out of an ink tank
-Supply price at retail for the above costs

Approximate info is fine at retail prices. I just want to get an idea of
what I am looking at.

Thanks...

Mike...
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Mike Benz said:
I read a review on Steve's Digicam aboput the i9900 from Canon.

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/canon_i9900.html

This looks like someting I may want to replace my Epson 890 for photo
printing. Only thing I don't see is price/print info. Can anyone give me the
following info:

-Price per 8x10 print
-Price per 5x7 print
-Price per 4x6 print
-How many 8x10 prints do you get out of an ink tank
-Supply price at retail for the above costs

Approximate info is fine at retail prices. I just want to get an idea of
what I am looking at.

Thanks...

Mike...
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I paid about 600 $US.
The price per print depends a great deal on what paper you buy. Also
on whether you refill (as I do) rather than buy canon or even after
market cartridges.
I haven't worked out the prices yet since I'm still experimenting with
paper and haven't worked out how much ink I use per page. It's too
much bother frankly. After all, it's only money.

Rob
 
Printer itself is $500 USD list price, so that "needs" to be
amortized over the number of prints you'll make from it over
time. Ink cartridges are about $9.25 mail order (Canon brand
cartridges). There's some specs as to how long each cartridge
lasts, but its not clear how "standard" spec prints
map to a person's actual prints (and presumably it'd depend
on one's pictures... one with lots of day sky probably eats photo cyan, one
that takes pictures of evening sunsets probably eats yellow ink
like crazy.

Mike
 
Canon makes great printers and the newer model changes the ink colors for
what is reported even better fidelity.

However if you use a high end Canon printer you are on your own with regard
to icc profiles for non-Canon papers. Canon makes very few paper types with
profiles for their own printers. And even the ones they have are not as good
as what Epson has for their printers and papers in my experience.
 
Pete said:
What is the difference / improvement from the
Canon i9000 to the i9900 ???
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At a guess, more colours, higher resolution, faster printing, smaller ink
droplet size. A better printer all round.
 
Pete Zha said:
What is the difference / improvement from the
Canon i9000 to the i9900 ???
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Resolution doubled to 4800 x 2400 and two ink colors
added. Dot size halved to 2 picoliter (from 4 that I recall).

The review of the i9900/i9950 at Steve's shows side
by side scans of prints from the i9900 and the previous
generation printer (with noticeable improvement!)

Mike
 
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