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Canon i960 My personal review
Just picked up my new Canon i960 today. Had read a lot of reviews of
different photo printers, and decided to go with this. What follows is my personal review: Purchased from CompUSA cost was $199.99(US) What comes in the box: Printer Printer Head Power Cord Driver/Software CD User Manual A packet (5 sheets) of Canon Photo Paper Plus (4X6) 6 ink cartridges Paper Adapter (More on this later) (Note: This printer comes in USB format only, cable NOT included, so you must make sure you buy a USB cable.) Set Up: Fairly easy. This thing had shipping tape all over, so you really gotta look to make sure you get them all off. Once you remove all the shipping tape, you attach the power cord, plug it in and turn the printer on. This will move the mount for the ink cratridges and printer head to the middle of the access cover. Carefully remove the printer head and insert it. It will only fit in, in one way, so you can't accidently put it in backwards. Then you snap this litle handle down to lock it in place. Next, remove the safety tape and plastic from each ink cartridge and insert them. The cartridge tray is marked, so you know what cartridge goes where. Once you have the priner head and ink cartridges installed, you turn of printer off. Connect the USB cable to the back of the printer, and to a USB port on your computer. It comes with both USB 1.1 and high speed USB 2.0. Insert the driver CD and install the drivers. You will also have a host of additional software you can install. I installed all the options, but so far have only used the Easy Photo Print software on my test prints. You than have to do an automatic printer head alignment., It will print out a test sheet with colored boxes on it. You set the alignment according to how well the boxes look. Not as complicated as it sounds. Once that is done, your ready to go. Paper Adapter: The printer comes with an adapter that fits over the paper feed slot. Into this adapter, you can insert up to 20 sheets of 4X6 photo paper. You can then place up to 150 sheets of plain paper into the feed tray as well. The adpater has a knob on it marked Print/Remove. If you want to pint to plain paper (text documents for example) turn the knob to Remove. This lifts the adpater up and out of the feed tray. To print to 4X6 photo paper, turn the knob to Print. This lowers the adpater down into the feed tray and will feed only the photo paper. This is a very quiet printer. But it blazes through 4X6 prints. I timed mine at about 36-38 seconds per print. Quality? What can I say...... I scanned a picture into my computer, than printed a 4X6 photo. Compared it to the original and I was hard pressed to tell which came from the photo lab and which came from the printer. There is a setting in the Printer Perferences that allows you to set Auto Power On/Off. This will autmatically turn the printer off after a predefined time. Once a print command is sent to the printer, it turns on again. There is also a setting for Quiet Mode. I enabeled this, and after the initial sound of the paper loading, I have to put my hand on the printer to confirm it is doing anything, it runs that quietly.... Easy Photo Print softwa This is the main printing software that comes with the printer. It allows you to select images to be printed. From within the software, you can access the set up information, allowing you to select type of paper, size, date, and a whole slew of other information. The Date option kind of threw me at first. This option lets you print a date on the photo. The first few I tried this out on, showed a date from Sept 11, 1999. It took me a while to figure out that since these were digital images, it was displaying the date the image was taken. When I tried it on scans of photographs, it showed todays date. But you don't have to print a date on the photo if you don't want it. Another thing I found out is that if you have a lot of images in the folder, it will let you print 20, 48 or 80 image index sheets, sometimes called contact sheets. Another nice thing with the software..... Each image in the folder is displayed in a thumbnail version. Under each image are up/down arrow keys. This sets the number of copies of each image to print. So if you have 50 images in a folder, but you only want to print 6 of them, you use the up arrow key to set the number to 1 under each image you want to print. Set all the others to zero. Only those images with a number will be printed, with the number you select determining the number of copies of each image. So, if you have 50 images in the folder, and you only want to print images numbers 4, 23, 36 and 48, first click the Clear All button. This sets all images to zero. Then up arrow images 4, 23, 36 and 48 to the number of copies of each you want to print. Very easy..... |
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"Greg Kamer" wrote in message
... Just picked up my new Canon i960 today. Had read a lot of reviews of different photo printers, and decided to go with this. What follows is my personal review: Is there any software included to help calibrate the colors betweent the monitor and the printer so that what you see (on the monitor) is what you get (on the printer)? -- Mike http://www.graphtablet.com Free graph paper for students and others. |
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"Greg Kamer" wrote in message
... Just picked up my new Canon i960 today. Had read a lot of reviews of different photo printers, and decided to go with this. What follows is my personal review: Is there any software included to help calibrate the colors betweent the monitor and the printer so that what you see (on the monitor) is what you get (on the printer)? -- Mike http://www.graphtablet.com Free graph paper for students and others. |
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Greg Kamer wrote:
Just picked up my new Canon i960 today. Had read a lot of reviews of different photo printers, and decided to go with this. What follows is my personal review: [...] Easy Photo Print softwa This is the main printing software that comes with the printer. It allows you to select images to be printed. From within the software, you can access the set up information, allowing you to select type of paper, size, date, and a whole slew of other information. Unfortunately you forgot to mention some essential drawbacks in Canon's softwa 1) they do not accept compressed tiff's 2) software hangs often with uncompressed tiff's. I convert than images into large (high quality *.jpeg's) to be able to print 3) software hangs on 48bit (16bit/channel) tiffs. 4) the EZ image browser scans drives and goes into subdirectories. The way my storage is organized, huge and unusable raw files are stored in subdirectories called R. This program tries to reads them in, what takes on my 120Gig drive several hours and ends with a crash because the most of them are 48bit/pixel. Canon's software support is very slow in releasing new upgrades and will not add essential features, such as support for compressed tiffs. Everything may be resolved by some additional preparations (batch convert of images into suitable *.jpegs,) but I wish I could use tiffs. Why to deal with jpeg artifacts at all?? Thomas |
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Greg Kamer wrote:
Just picked up my new Canon i960 today. Had read a lot of reviews of different photo printers, and decided to go with this. What follows is my personal review: [...] Easy Photo Print softwa This is the main printing software that comes with the printer. It allows you to select images to be printed. From within the software, you can access the set up information, allowing you to select type of paper, size, date, and a whole slew of other information. Unfortunately you forgot to mention some essential drawbacks in Canon's softwa 1) they do not accept compressed tiff's 2) software hangs often with uncompressed tiff's. I convert than images into large (high quality *.jpeg's) to be able to print 3) software hangs on 48bit (16bit/channel) tiffs. 4) the EZ image browser scans drives and goes into subdirectories. The way my storage is organized, huge and unusable raw files are stored in subdirectories called R. This program tries to reads them in, what takes on my 120Gig drive several hours and ends with a crash because the most of them are 48bit/pixel. Canon's software support is very slow in releasing new upgrades and will not add essential features, such as support for compressed tiffs. Everything may be resolved by some additional preparations (batch convert of images into suitable *.jpegs,) but I wish I could use tiffs. Why to deal with jpeg artifacts at all?? Thomas |
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Epson are no better. I detailed to Epson Tech support a bug in their
software, and exactly how to fix it (just registry settings!), 6 months later there is still no update to their program and the bug remains. PS: I worked out the answer to the bug while their TS was looking into it for me. They finally responded to me and said it can't be fixed, then I proceeded to tell them how I fixed it myself. So much for support, more likely just a reminded in the contact book to call me a few days later and say it can't be fixed... I'll never touch Epson again. "ThomasH" wrote in message ... Greg Kamer wrote: .... Canon's software support is very slow in releasing new upgrades and will not add essential features, such as support for compressed tiffs. .... |
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Epson are no better. I detailed to Epson Tech support a bug in their
software, and exactly how to fix it (just registry settings!), 6 months later there is still no update to their program and the bug remains. PS: I worked out the answer to the bug while their TS was looking into it for me. They finally responded to me and said it can't be fixed, then I proceeded to tell them how I fixed it myself. So much for support, more likely just a reminded in the contact book to call me a few days later and say it can't be fixed... I'll never touch Epson again. "ThomasH" wrote in message ... Greg Kamer wrote: .... Canon's software support is very slow in releasing new upgrades and will not add essential features, such as support for compressed tiffs. .... |
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Greg - Can one print custom size of 8.3 x 23.4"; panoramic size?
Thanks. Frank "Greg Kamer" wrote in message ... Just picked up my new Canon i960 today. Had read a lot of reviews of different photo printers, and decided to go with this. What follows is my personal review: Purchased from CompUSA cost was $199.99(US) What comes in the box: Printer Printer Head Power Cord Driver/Software CD User Manual A packet (5 sheets) of Canon Photo Paper Plus (4X6) 6 ink cartridges Paper Adapter (More on this later) (Note: This printer comes in USB format only, cable NOT included, so you must make sure you buy a USB cable.) Set Up: Fairly easy. This thing had shipping tape all over, so you really gotta look to make sure you get them all off. Once you remove all the shipping tape, you attach the power cord, plug it in and turn the printer on. This will move the mount for the ink cratridges and printer head to the middle of the access cover. Carefully remove the printer head and insert it. It will only fit in, in one way, so you can't accidently put it in backwards. Then you snap this litle handle down to lock it in place. Next, remove the safety tape and plastic from each ink cartridge and insert them. The cartridge tray is marked, so you know what cartridge goes where. Once you have the priner head and ink cartridges installed, you turn of printer off. Connect the USB cable to the back of the printer, and to a USB port on your computer. It comes with both USB 1.1 and high speed USB 2.0. Insert the driver CD and install the drivers. You will also have a host of additional software you can install. I installed all the options, but so far have only used the Easy Photo Print software on my test prints. You than have to do an automatic printer head alignment., It will print out a test sheet with colored boxes on it. You set the alignment according to how well the boxes look. Not as complicated as it sounds. Once that is done, your ready to go. Paper Adapter: The printer comes with an adapter that fits over the paper feed slot. Into this adapter, you can insert up to 20 sheets of 4X6 photo paper. You can then place up to 150 sheets of plain paper into the feed tray as well. The adpater has a knob on it marked Print/Remove. If you want to pint to plain paper (text documents for example) turn the knob to Remove. This lifts the adpater up and out of the feed tray. To print to 4X6 photo paper, turn the knob to Print. This lowers the adpater down into the feed tray and will feed only the photo paper. This is a very quiet printer. But it blazes through 4X6 prints. I timed mine at about 36-38 seconds per print. Quality? What can I say...... I scanned a picture into my computer, than printed a 4X6 photo. Compared it to the original and I was hard pressed to tell which came from the photo lab and which came from the printer. There is a setting in the Printer Perferences that allows you to set Auto Power On/Off. This will autmatically turn the printer off after a predefined time. Once a print command is sent to the printer, it turns on again. There is also a setting for Quiet Mode. I enabeled this, and after the initial sound of the paper loading, I have to put my hand on the printer to confirm it is doing anything, it runs that quietly.... Easy Photo Print softwa This is the main printing software that comes with the printer. It allows you to select images to be printed. From within the software, you can access the set up information, allowing you to select type of paper, size, date, and a whole slew of other information. The Date option kind of threw me at first. This option lets you print a date on the photo. The first few I tried this out on, showed a date from Sept 11, 1999. It took me a while to figure out that since these were digital images, it was displaying the date the image was taken. When I tried it on scans of photographs, it showed todays date. But you don't have to print a date on the photo if you don't want it. Another thing I found out is that if you have a lot of images in the folder, it will let you print 20, 48 or 80 image index sheets, sometimes called contact sheets. Another nice thing with the software..... Each image in the folder is displayed in a thumbnail version. Under each image are up/down arrow keys. This sets the number of copies of each image to print. So if you have 50 images in a folder, but you only want to print 6 of them, you use the up arrow key to set the number to 1 under each image you want to print. Set all the others to zero. Only those images with a number will be printed, with the number you select determining the number of copies of each image. So, if you have 50 images in the folder, and you only want to print images numbers 4, 23, 36 and 48, first click the Clear All button. This sets all images to zero. Then up arrow images 4, 23, 36 and 48 to the number of copies of each you want to print. Very easy..... |
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Greg - Can one print custom size of 8.3 x 23.4"; panoramic size?
Thanks. Frank "Greg Kamer" wrote in message ... Just picked up my new Canon i960 today. Had read a lot of reviews of different photo printers, and decided to go with this. What follows is my personal review: Purchased from CompUSA cost was $199.99(US) What comes in the box: Printer Printer Head Power Cord Driver/Software CD User Manual A packet (5 sheets) of Canon Photo Paper Plus (4X6) 6 ink cartridges Paper Adapter (More on this later) (Note: This printer comes in USB format only, cable NOT included, so you must make sure you buy a USB cable.) Set Up: Fairly easy. This thing had shipping tape all over, so you really gotta look to make sure you get them all off. Once you remove all the shipping tape, you attach the power cord, plug it in and turn the printer on. This will move the mount for the ink cratridges and printer head to the middle of the access cover. Carefully remove the printer head and insert it. It will only fit in, in one way, so you can't accidently put it in backwards. Then you snap this litle handle down to lock it in place. Next, remove the safety tape and plastic from each ink cartridge and insert them. The cartridge tray is marked, so you know what cartridge goes where. Once you have the priner head and ink cartridges installed, you turn of printer off. Connect the USB cable to the back of the printer, and to a USB port on your computer. It comes with both USB 1.1 and high speed USB 2.0. Insert the driver CD and install the drivers. You will also have a host of additional software you can install. I installed all the options, but so far have only used the Easy Photo Print software on my test prints. You than have to do an automatic printer head alignment., It will print out a test sheet with colored boxes on it. You set the alignment according to how well the boxes look. Not as complicated as it sounds. Once that is done, your ready to go. Paper Adapter: The printer comes with an adapter that fits over the paper feed slot. Into this adapter, you can insert up to 20 sheets of 4X6 photo paper. You can then place up to 150 sheets of plain paper into the feed tray as well. The adpater has a knob on it marked Print/Remove. If you want to pint to plain paper (text documents for example) turn the knob to Remove. This lifts the adpater up and out of the feed tray. To print to 4X6 photo paper, turn the knob to Print. This lowers the adpater down into the feed tray and will feed only the photo paper. This is a very quiet printer. But it blazes through 4X6 prints. I timed mine at about 36-38 seconds per print. Quality? What can I say...... I scanned a picture into my computer, than printed a 4X6 photo. Compared it to the original and I was hard pressed to tell which came from the photo lab and which came from the printer. There is a setting in the Printer Perferences that allows you to set Auto Power On/Off. This will autmatically turn the printer off after a predefined time. Once a print command is sent to the printer, it turns on again. There is also a setting for Quiet Mode. I enabeled this, and after the initial sound of the paper loading, I have to put my hand on the printer to confirm it is doing anything, it runs that quietly.... Easy Photo Print softwa This is the main printing software that comes with the printer. It allows you to select images to be printed. From within the software, you can access the set up information, allowing you to select type of paper, size, date, and a whole slew of other information. The Date option kind of threw me at first. This option lets you print a date on the photo. The first few I tried this out on, showed a date from Sept 11, 1999. It took me a while to figure out that since these were digital images, it was displaying the date the image was taken. When I tried it on scans of photographs, it showed todays date. But you don't have to print a date on the photo if you don't want it. Another thing I found out is that if you have a lot of images in the folder, it will let you print 20, 48 or 80 image index sheets, sometimes called contact sheets. Another nice thing with the software..... Each image in the folder is displayed in a thumbnail version. Under each image are up/down arrow keys. This sets the number of copies of each image to print. So if you have 50 images in a folder, but you only want to print 6 of them, you use the up arrow key to set the number to 1 under each image you want to print. Set all the others to zero. Only those images with a number will be printed, with the number you select determining the number of copies of each image. So, if you have 50 images in the folder, and you only want to print images numbers 4, 23, 36 and 48, first click the Clear All button. This sets all images to zero. Then up arrow images 4, 23, 36 and 48 to the number of copies of each you want to print. Very easy..... |
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You can adjust magenta, cyan, yellow, and black to get very close. I
calibrated my monitor first (which is a must) and then fine tweaked the c,y,m,b until I got it as close as possible. It isn't perfect but very close. I don't use any of the auto settings or effects and that seems to help me get what I want. "Mike" wrote in message news:8v4mb.17474$HS4.61080@attbi_s01... "Greg Kamer" wrote in message ... Just picked up my new Canon i960 today. Had read a lot of reviews of different photo printers, and decided to go with this. What follows is my personal review: Is there any software included to help calibrate the colors betweent the monitor and the printer so that what you see (on the monitor) is what you get (on the printer)? -- Mike http://www.graphtablet.com Free graph paper for students and others. |
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