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#1 Photo Products - Canon Pixma MP830 Office All-In-One Inkjet Printer (0583B002)
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List Price: $299.99
Our Price: $245.00
Your Save: $ 54.99 ( 18% )
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Manufacturer: Canon Office Products
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Canon
Color: Black
EAN: 0013803052725
Feature: Copy and scan 2 sided originals with auto duplex Automatic Document Feeder (ADF)
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Canon Office Products
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Canon Office Products
Model: 0583B002
Publisher: Canon Office Products
Release Date: 2006-03-20
Studio: Canon Office Products
Variation Description: Black
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Features
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Copy and scan 2 sided originals with auto duplex Automatic Document Feeder (ADF)
Fast printing up to 30 ppm black/ 24 ppmcolor and a photo lab quality
Super G3 (33.6 Kbps) fax with memory for 100 coded speed dials and up to 250 incoming pages
Built-in 2 sided printing/copying and second paper tray for convenient paper selections
Print up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi 1 picoliter droplet size
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Very disappointed
Comment: Our MP830 failed after twenty months of very infrequent use. And we are not alone. Google error code 6A00, and you will see how our machine failed like apparently thousands of others. Apparently Canon's ink innovation of separating the ink jets from the ink storage containers was a miserable failure.
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Summary: Horrible printer - BAD customer service
Comment: I've had this printer for a little over a year. While it has worked at times, other reviewers are correct that it is an ink hog and it also has many technical issues.
My printer has had two bad print heads. I replaced the first one, then one day I turned on the printer and it says that "the print head is incorrect." If you are out of the warranty period the response from Canon "customer service" is to buy another print head. Basically, just keeping dumping more money into the faulty product.
Also, if the print head if faulty, other non-printing functions (like scanning and faxing) will not work.
Based on this product and rude customer service, I'll be staying away from Canon.
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Summary: Terrible quality
Comment: My husband and I have been using this printer for about a year now, and at least twice a week we say, this is the worst printer we've ever owned. The paper often goes through the printer at an angle, no matter what one does to keep it straight. This means that pictures and letters often print crooked on the page. In addition, the paper often crunches through the printing process creating an edge that is bent, scraped and deformed. If a person has normal sized arms, he/she can't reach the feed tray without getting up from the chair. Since the feed tray doesn't hold much paper, this leads to lots of unexpected exercise. Last, after a few months this printer started printing two normal lines of text and then two lines of light text all the way through every page. All the cleaning and changing of cartridges have not changed this flaw. We don't want to spend the money to get it fixed (if it's even possible) because we plan to replace this printer as soon as we possibly can. Maybe we just got a lemon. But I won't buy Canon again for awhile.
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Summary: Canon's MP830 (and apparently others) is an inkaholic
Comment: Too bad I had to give it 1-star.
I agree with the previous reviewer who suggests that you run (don't walk) away from this printer. I would extend that to suggest that you should carefully check out any Canon multi-function printer (MP printer series) for the following issues.
The Canon MP830 printer seems to be designed to guzzle color ink when printing in duplex (2-sided) grayscale (black & white) mode. In my opinion, this is a profit driven decision by Canon to extract as much money as possible from their customer's wallets. Apparently, many other Canon printers were designed with the same philosophy in mind.
Somehow this printer has consistently received good to excellent reviews. It is interesting that you rarely, if ever see these issues in printer reviews, even from presumably "consumer" driven magazines that specifically rate printers. These reviews are usually based on criteria like ink consumption, image quality, and cost per page - all of which suffer with this printer in greyscale duplex (2-sided black and white) mode. Hmmm....
Here is how I got there:
- Canon is apparently aware of the ink guzzling issue, and refuses to fix it. In fact, others claim it is intentionally designed this way (I believe that's true). In the software world, we have a joke for this: It's not a bug, it's a feature!
- one of the main reasons that consumers will be attracted to this printer is because of the duplex printing capabilities.
- users often turn-off color printing and print in greyscale to save money, unless they want color printing for a specific document.
- Apparently, the claim from Canon is that black ink will "bleed through" so their MP830 design forces the printer to use color ink when printing in greyscale duplex mode. This does not happen (as much) in single sided grayscale mode, which seems to use mainly black ink and has much better print quality than two-sided grayscale mode.
- I have never seen bleed through in single-sided grayscale mode, even with very cheap paper.
- This mixture of color inks to create black, gives a vastly inferior print when compared to using black ink.
- Canon goes further by even preventing operation of the printer if ANY of the color cartridges run out, even though you are greyscale mode. Hmm... again.
- Canon (and other printer manufacturers) realize that much of their profit from an inkjet printer comes from future sales of ink, rather than the the cost of the printer itself.
Hence, the printer seems to be designed to gulp down as much expensive ink as possible, without regard for image quality. I believe that this is a cynical ploy to extract as much cash from the consumer as physically possible, without regard for quality.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Canon PIXMA mp830-Inexpensive, but limited
Comment: For the $$, this is a good inkjet printer. It is easy to set up and to operate but it is limited in the following:
SCANNING- even using the auto feeder, you can only scan a maximum page size of 81/2 by 11. The manual tells you that you can do bigger sizes and then "paste" them together but I was unable to do this using an original of 8 1/2 by 14. (An important feature for me as I do many legal sized documents.)
INK USEAGE- The printer seems to go through ink rapidly- I am replacing all ink in the first 6 weeks of purchase and have really not used much color. Probably printed a maximum of 2 dozen color pages and have all my other documents printing on "greyscale" and "fast" to minimize ink useage. I have had a laser printer for 10 years (replacing ink cartridges only 1-2 times/yr) so I don't know if this is "standard" for ink jets...but it has been expensive to get new ink. I would also recommend keeping an extra ink cartridge of all colors on hand because if you run out of ANY color..including the standard black, you can no longer print. I had to go to a copy store to finish a project because one ink ran out....and the rest of the project was BLACK ...which I had plenty of black left! That was frustrating. AUTO DOCUMENT FEEDER- grabs more than 1 page when I am scanning...need to stand by and watch it closely. Most of the time it "copies" without pulling more than one..but for some reason, with the scanner it is malfunctioning.
Nice Features: Can leave 2 types of paper in the machine and use the "feed switch button" to manually change the paper without needing to unload paper from cassete. Flat bed scanner makes it easy to scan small documents and the program (MPNavigator) is easy to use. Can print 2 sided copies. When ink gets low, any incoming faxes are stored in memory and only printed if you want them...also the machine warns you before you print that you may want to cancel the printing due to low ink.
I would recommend this to someone with "light" printer useage...if you are running a business, I would go to a laser printer or check around more. Color ink seems to deplete quickly. Quality of photos was good.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The ultra-versatile PIXMA MP830 Office All-In-One delivers spectacular performance for the home and small office. It produces an amazing print resolution of up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi, for superb detail and clarity. To achieve this, Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a next-generation 3, 584-nozzle print head that ejects precise, consistent droplets as small as 1 picoliter, for smooth, virtually grain-free images. The ContrastPLUS 5-color ink system-four dye based inks and a pigment-based black-ink-produces true-life photos along with laser-quality text. Plus, a 4" x 6" photo lab quality borderless print takes only about 36 seconds.With the large 2.5" LCD color viewer and easy control panel, you can evaluate and enhance images from your compatible memory card before printing! Or, you can print directly from your PictBridge ready digital camera or DV camcorder. With direct printing, you don't need a computer.This high-end office All-In-One does it all. The auto duplex Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) can read both sides of a 2 sided document, letting you copy or scan a 2-sided original without having to flip it over by hand! The ADF can hold 35 pages of originals at one time, making it much easier to copy, scan or fax multi-page documents. And when combined with the unit's dual paper trays, the ADF gives you the capability for high-capacity copying, even of 2 sided originals. The AE (Auto Exposure) Copy feature automatically optimizes reproduction quality based on the type of original you're duplicating. When scanning, the unit's high-resolution CCD technology enables you to produce exceptional 2400-dpi scans, with vibrant 48-bit color depth. And now, faxing: with the PIXMA MP830 Office All-In-One, you can achieve up to Super G3 fax speed in color and B&W. Plus, the expanded memory lets you store 100 speed dial codes, and receive up to 250 incoming pages.
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