Canon S500 Color Bubble Jet Printer
by Canon
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: CanonPlatform: Mac, Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT
Model: s500
Product features:
- Color printer, perfect for home office use
- Up to 12 ppm black, 8 ppm color
- 2400 x 1200 dpi color resolution
- Canon Think Tank System individual ink tanks
- Dual USB and parallel interface
- Microsoft Office Home & Business 2010 - 2PC/1User (Disc Version)
- AmazonBasics USB 2.0 A-Male to Mini-B Cable (6 Feet / 1.8 Meters)
- AmazonBasics USB 2.0 A-Male to A-Female Extension Cable (3.3 Feet/1.0 Meter)
- AmazonBasics USB 2.0 A-Male to A-Female Extension Cable (9.8 Feet/3.0 Meters)
- Final Draft Version 8
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon S500 Color Bubble Jet Printer
Customer Review: A fantastic, low cost high quality printer for Windows XP
Summary: 5 Stars
First let me say that I am absolutely amazed and delighted by this printer! I have had Epson printers for a number of years now, and swore by them (though lately I have been swearing at them). After upgrading to a Windows XP system, I found that many of my Epson peripherals simply no longer had drivers that allowed them to operate. This was true of BOTH of my Epson printers, a stylus 740 and an old workhorse 900. I was rather upset with Epson that they really had no intention of doing anything about XP drivers, and I had to be content with the bundled XP driver that handles (poorly) the 740, OR download the Windows 2000 driver that they say "Probably works with Windows XP"...It doesn't - so don't do it!- in fact it had my printer substituting green for yellow, and unable to delete documents that would then spool for an eternity. I read the reviews for the canon printers and liked what I read, but I really have to say, that the following points make this printer ideal for photo printing and documents:
1) Ease of use: It came with an XP driver! (Hello Epson!) and was installed and running in less than five minutes including alignment of the print head!
2) It has multiple "Ink tanks" that allow you to replace only the one you need. With my Epsons, I would print half a dozen large pictures for family members and I needed a new cartridge, primarily due to the fact that the magenta ink was out. Now, I can simply buy a cheap magenta cartridge!
3) Speed. Simply put this baby is fast! I test ran a 5x7 photo on high quality (In fairness to my old Epson I ran both of the prints at about 1240 x 780 or whatever the specific number is, though the Canon S500 does 2400 x 1200). The results knocked me out...First, the Epson took almost six minutes while the canon took less than a minute. More importantly, the image from the canon LOOKED BETTER! The tones were more natural, and the quality seemed more like a photo, even under a loupe. Next I did the same test but used cheap Jet Print photo paper. The canon STILL printed a fantastic picture, (in fact it looked as good as the one on Epson Glossy) while the Epson printed a horrible discolored wreck.
So, No more Epson for me. I am sick and tired of waiting for the drivers for my high end scanner and printers that may or may not ever come out; I am sick and tired of having to buy "genuine Epson paper" or be stuck with awful images, and I am REALLY tired of spending so much money for a single color cartridge. I don't intend to buy another printer or scanner from Epson again.
Do yourself a favor and get this printer if you want really nice images and text, easy installation, and a lot less of an outlay for inks and paper.
And once more for those who scan reviews briefly -YES this printer is FULLY windows XP supported and comes with the Driver CD Rom
Description of Canon S500 Color Bubble Jet Printer
Printing 12 pages per minute at an astonishing 2,400 x 1,200 resolution, the Canon S500 is an economical and powerful printing solution for your home or office. The S500 can produce exceptional photo-quality prints that, when printed on Canon Professional photo paper PR-101, can maintain their color for up to 25 years without fading. Colors are brilliant and images are sharp, thanks to Canon's Microfine Droplet technology.Economically minded users will appreciate that the S500's ink cartridges are individually replaceable, so when you run out of one color you can just replace the cartridge for that color, instead replacing an entire three-color cartridge. The printer features both USB and parallel ports and drivers for PC and MAC (Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT 4.0 and Apple Macintosh OS 8.1 or higher).