Canon S300 Color Bubble Jet Printer

Average customer rating: 4.0

A great value.
AMAZING!
Badly designed printer prone to problems
Nice Except For Ink Thirst
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Canon S300 Color Bubble Jet Printer

Manufacturer: Canon
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00005OQMJ

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Product Description

Now you can own a great all-around printer for a truly great price. The S300 Color Bubble Jet Printer was specifically designed for quickly and brilliantly printing the projects that families create most, from super-sharp letters and reports to incredible greeting cards and posters. Plus, thanks to Canon's expertise in image reproduction, it gives you the ability to print spectacular color photos. With the included photo software, high-intensity ink, and Canon's exclusive advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology, you can print picture-perfect photos that will last approximately 25 years. Speed through projects at up to 11 ppm in black and up to 7.5 ppm in color. And when printing in color, you will get a remarkable 2400 x 1200 dpi-38% greater than 2880 x 720 dpi printers. That's high-performance printing nearly unmatched in its class. So you can output projects with ease and confidence. Canon's leading image technology ensures exceptional photo-printing performance. Advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology precisely applies microscopic ink droplets, resulting in reduced grain, richer tonality, greater contrast and higher resolution. Canon's high optical density ink produces brighter, more vivid colors and crisp, laser-quality black. Plus, the included PhotoRecord software enables you to print edge-to-edge, 4" x 6" photos.

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For printing standard office documents and glossy family craft projects, the Canon S300 printer delivers outstanding quality and value. Sized at just 10 by 15 inches, it was thoughtfully designed for comfortable use even in cramped home offices. (In this case, good things definitely come in small packages.)

Color prints are churned out at up to 7.5 color pages per minute, with a color-saturated 2,400 x 1,200 dpi resolution. Canon's bubble-jet technology supplies 128 nozzles for each color, all of which originate from the same compact cartridge. Monochrome print jobs are processed at up to 11 pages per minute, and receive a letter-perfect 600 x 600 dpi resolution.

The S300 can produce exceptional, photo-quality prints, including edge-to-edge, 4-by-6-inch photos. Paper-handling possibilities include envelopes, transparencies, glossy photo sheets, and banners, as well as plain paper in letter and legal sizes. The printer connects to your system via a single USB cable, making installation simple and keeping your desk free of clutter.

PhotoRecord image processing software is included, along with drivers for both Windows and Macintosh systems. Canon provides a one-year, limited warranty with instant exchange service available as an option.

Customer Reviews:

A great value........2007-02-18

I bought this printer as a refurb. I got it for considerably less than the listed price. That was three years ago.
This printer has been totally reliable.
The printing quality for photos is excellent and installing the printer on XP Home was easy and trouble-free.
The ink can be found for a reasonable price.
I highly recommend this printer!

AMAZING!.......2006-06-19

I've owned this printer for 3 yrs, I been through 7 printers within the past 5, and nothing can top this one. It is a budget printer, but the Quality it provides is good if your a student or a free lance printer. IF your into photography don't go with this printer. HOWEVER, this printer is a MONEY SAVER!!! the black ink I buy from target is only $6.40 and the color runs for about $17. You can't top that; the printer might be $100+ used but you will save lot of money in the long run in ink; I would reccomend this to anyone!

Badly designed printer prone to problems.......2006-05-01

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.

Nice Except For Ink Thirst.......2004-05-25

Overall this is a very good inexpensive ink jet printer. The image quality, black and white or color, plain paper or photo paper, is outstanding. It's fairly fast and fairly quiet. My only real complaint with it is that it goes through ink like crazy. More specifically though, the small ink cartridges tend to dry out rapidly once opened. If you don't do a lot of printing, you will be replacing the cartridges very often (per page). For example, I only print about 50-100 pages per year. But, I have to replace the (black only) ink cartridge 2-3 times per year, so I end up getting 20-30 pages per cartridge. However, if you do a lot of printing, I'm sure you'd get much more use out of a cartridge, as it would not have time to dry out and you'd be using all the ink. Fortunately you can replace only the black or only the color catridges separately, and while not cheap, they're not ridiculously expensive as some others are. That's my only knock on it, it's a fine little beast otherwise.

The Mighty Mouse.......2003-08-04

AWESOME printer for its size (and price)!! Easy to install, easy cartridge change. Color is great, bright and clear. B&W crisp, hi-contrast, not 'fuzzy' like some small printers. Highly recommend for home/school use.

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