Canon i70 Color Bubble Jet Printer

Average customer rating: 4.5

Planned Obsolescence
Small & Convenient
Great Quality but wastes a ton of Ink
Great little printer
Small Printer-Big Success

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Canon i70 Color Bubble Jet Printer

Manufacturer: Canon
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00008CMU9
2003-03-13

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Product Description

The Canon i70 Color Bubble Jet Printer delivers a remarkable combination of high-performance and portability. It's capable of printing up to 13 ppm in black and up to 9 ppm in color, while achieving a resolution of up to 4800 x 1200 color dpi. Try finding that speed and resolution in another portable printer. Plus, Canon advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology uses a revolutionary nozzle system that ejects consistent prescribed-volume droplets in microscopic sizes, with incredible accuracy. The result? Dramatic resolution and detail on graphics and photos, along with clean, crisp text - from your home office, from the front seat of your car, or wherever you are. Canon brings yet another first to portable ink jet printers: true borderless prints, with the look and feel of traditional photographs. Now you can produce 4" x 6", 5" x 7" or 8.5" x 11" borderless prints on the road, with stunning edge-to-edge quality and razor-sharp detail. Print photos fast on the i70 printer - this mobile photo lab prints 4" x 6" photos in approximately 90 seconds.With Bubble Jet Direct printing, and a compatible Canon digital camera or digital camcorder you can print with or without a PC - print anytime, any place. It is easy-to-use with sophisticated results. This means you can shoot a picture when you're on the go and print it immediately, which is ideal for both work and play. The i70 printer features IrDA compatibility (Windows only) for remote operation and a USB interface for easy connectivity. It also includes Canon Easy-WebPrint (Windows only) - software designed for simple, fast and hassle-free Web page printing.

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A versatile mobile color printer, the Canon i70 Color Bubble Jet sports an attractive price tag and is ideal for a wide variety of home and office uses. A 600 x 600 dpi resolution (black) and 4,800 x 1,200 dpi resolution (color) combine with a total of 704 print nozzles, resulting in bright, crisp, and detailed prints. Print speeds are an impressive 13 ppm black and white and 9 ppm color, while photo-quality 4-by-6-inch prints take as little as 90 seconds.

The i70 connects via USB, parallel port, or CompactFlash Type II slot for easy interfacing, and can print from supported Canon digital cameras and camcorders, with or without a PC. Both Windows and Mac drivers are included; and for PCs only, wireless infrared IrDA printing is available with Windows-compatible devices.

Truly mobile, this lightweight printer (4 pounds) fits nicely into most briefcases, measuring just 12.4 by 6.9 by 2.0 inches when closed. You can run the i70 with the included AC power adapter or buy the optional Portable Kit, which includes a lithium ion battery rated for 450 pages per 2-hour charge and a battery holder to charge the battery while attached to the printer.

A wide variety of paper types are supported, including envelopes, glossy photo paper, matte photo paper, transparencies, T-shirt transfers, and more, as well as paper sizes from 4 by 6 inches to A4. The software bundle helps users get the most out of their prints with Easy-PhotoPrint, Easy-WebPrint, PhotoRecord, ZoomBrowser EX, ImageBrowser, and PhotoStitch. Epson also provides a one-year limited warranty.

<b>What's in the Box</b>
Printer, sheet feeder, paper tray, power supply and cord, BCI-15 black ink tank, BCI-15 color ink tank, software and driver CD-ROM, instructions, setup and warranty information

Customer Reviews:

Planned Obsolescence.......2006-02-09

As a road warrior, I bought the i70 to replace my old Canon BJC-85, and to use with my Powerbook G4. On the plus side, it is fast and prints reasoably good text, and very good photos if you use photo paper. The black ink tank could be bigger, but that is a minor issue. It is the smallest printer of its type that I have seen.

The real problem is that at a certain point, you will have to replace the waste ink tank, something that I did not have to do with previous Canon printers. This is not something you can do yourself; you must send or take the printer to an authorized service facility, and pay around $115 for the replacement. That is equal to half of what I paid for the printer approximately 2 years ago. And if you ignore the warning light, the printer will just quit on you in the middle of an important print job.

Cannon says that as a "loyal" customer, they will give you a discount on a new printer, instead of replacing the waste ink tank, however, they will not tell you what that discount is up front. Further, a tech at the service facility told me the newer models, such as the i80 and ip90 have the same flaw engineered into the product. Seems like Canon has decided their authorized service facilities are more important than their customers.

I wrote to Canon, and received the reply that my comments would be directed to the appropriate person. I hope so.

Small & Convenient.......2005-12-06

I had this printer for about a year and had no complaints whatsoever. Ink can get a bit pricey but there's always Cartridge World who will refill both tanks for $18. I am on the road a lot and the size is extremely convenient, put it in your bag, get it out in the hotel, and boom, you got yourself a small office. Highly recommended. Hint: It's quite sensitive so don't put it in a bag that you'll check @ the airport. I did that for the 1st time last week, and when I plugged it I had an "out of paper" error even tough the tray was full. Through some research I found out that through bag checkout they had bent a piece that senses for paper, so I just bent it back and the problem was gone!

Great Quality but wastes a ton of Ink.......2004-12-19

I have had this little baby for over 1 year now and have no complaints what so ever about the print quality.
For a little printer, the quality is stunning.
I also bought the battery pack so printing on the go from a laptop is simple. The battery pack has provided more than enough life, lasting more than my laptop's battery.

The one complaint: very poor Mac OS X software. I mean very poor. Mac users aren't used to being asked to confirm dumb questions multiple times like PC users are.

For example, there are 2 menu options to access settings regarding the ink levels and neither of them are clear.
If you choose: Ink Level Information why should you have to click 'update?' Shouldn't the software update the information before displaying it? This is like one of those annoying PC Wizards that ask you the same question multiple times.
The other choice regarding ink is "Remaining ink level setting'
Unfortunately you have to reset the ink level settings manually...a major annoyance and inconvenience. This is done by clicking the obvious Ink Counter Rest Button in the Remaining ink level setting screen. But why is there a Remaining Ink Level Indicator Setting button? There is another menu option that displays the current ink level so what's this for? Whatever it does, it sends some message to the printer. Maybe an ink level setting reset? If so, then shouldn't the other button have done it already? Are you getting confused? see what I mean!?
Who knows. It is just stupid and confusing.
The ink level indicators are almost never right anyway, so be prepared to have to change ink cartriges in a trial and error fashion when your print quality doesn't seem right.

As a matter of fact, when there is something wrong with your print quality, don't expect the Print Utility to be much help at all.
For example, When you choose "Cleaning" there is a button that says -Cleaning: Starts print head cleaning.' What do you think will happen when you click this?
Nope. It gives you an option with check boxes: All Colors, Black, or Color. then an 'OK' button. So you have chosen the colors you want to clean and click 'ok' so what do you think will happen now?
Instead of the printer beginning to clean the heads, you are given an alert box that Asks "Clean the Print Head?" and you have to click 'OK' again.

Geeez..... talk about annoying! Just clean the damn heads already!!!! The softweare doesn't seem to know it was written for Mac OS X and not Windows.

It's a shame the software is soooo bad, because this is otherwise a really great printer.

If you get this printer, you will love the photos, but be prepared to spend a lot of $$ on ink and get a little frustrated when you need to use the utility.

Great little printer.......2004-09-10

I've had this printer for 9 months and its been great. 2 complaints: it runs out of ink quickly and the ink for this printer is expensive; 2) there is no paper catch.

Small Printer-Big Success.......2004-06-15

I needed a small portable printer for my laptop, and after researching them, I chose the Canon i70. It has all of the attributes I needed-lightweight,super easy to use, fast as the office rumor mill, and a great print job. I highly recommend this product to anyone fortunate enough to have purchased it.

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