canon mg series printers

[incisor]

talk about dumbing products down

the canon mg5350 takes it to new levels

for years i have used 2 @ ip4500 printers to print discs

all they ever did, nothing else, and they did it very well

had to replace one with an mg5350

what a useless pox ridden piece of ****

dumb as dog **** and slower than pom in a shower queue

every time you turn it on you have to close the cd feed shutter so it can go thru a 2 minute warm up cycle...

then you have to wait for a prompt, open the shutter and press the okay button

morons....

[Ferret]

Yeah, I've had a series of Cannon printers. Present one is a ip4850. Forget the models of the previous ones but they were functional equivalents of the ip4850 - supposedly same print speed, capabilities etc.

The ip4850 does the same thing when printing discs as you describe, the print heads sits over to the right hand side of the printer squirting ink into the waste ink tank while it has a little think about things.

The other thing I notice is a progressive reduction in ink cartridge size. The ip4850 cartridge size is 2/3 the size of the previous model, which in turn were small than its previous model. Other than that, little difference in the models

Previous ink cartridges were refillable, current ink cartridge can't be refilled - there is just no hole in the cartridge any more where you can squirt some replacement ink.

Printer cost $89 including ink, complete set of genuine ink cartridges (4 + 1 extra black cartridge) $129 from office works. Complete set of non genuine cartridge ~$50. What a joke.

[theresanothersteve]

I've always been a fan of Canon, printers and cameras.

Up until recently I was using an i965. Fantastic printer until the yellow ink started becoming contaminated. Took it to the local authorised service people who said it was the waste tank overflowing. Went to pick it up, paid my $80 but told them they should remove the inky fingerprints they left all over it...

Still getting contaminated ink so time to get a new one. Looked at the mg6250 but the guy at the local Harveys spent a long time discussing variuos options and in the end decided on an Epson 730. Went away, did some research on photographic forums and the like, came back and parted with my money.

So far, so good. The prints (A4 on cropped images) are very good. But I'll need to do a bit more photographic printing before I'll commit to saying its better than the 965. Time will tell...

[WhiteD3]

I've got a newish MG5250 and love it. Far and away better than the HP I had previously.

[incisor]

the print quality is fine, so is the ink usage

the mechanics of using it are what have been dumbed down and illogical at times.