More new Canon printers and AIOs coming soon.

[Zepper]

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Here's the story link

iP4300 sounds interesting... I hope they didn't mess with the ink tanks again (unless they went back to passive!).

.bh.

 

[Lemon law]

Interesting---------veeeery interesting in best Commander Clink fake German acent. But you can always trust PC mag to get it wrong.

First PC mag hammers at the fact that the print speed is proportional to the number of nozzles on the printhead.

In pixma generation 1, there was the ip4000 and the ip5000. Both with the same configeration of unchipped cartridges. With the more expensive ip5000 offering a printhead with more nozzles and the first printer in history to offer the one pico liter drop.

In pixma generation 2 the ip4200 and ip5200 appeared as replacements. Very little new in either printer hardware except one new carrot and one new stick. The good news being the slightly better chromalife 100 inks appeared--with bad news #1 being those slightly better inks were not offered as backward compatable to earlier Canon models---which PROVES just in itself that Canon is playing consumer unfriendly games. But stick number 2 is that the new printers are now chipped--making refilling more difficult and annoying---and also making the use of third party prefilled Cartridges impossible. But the one pico liter drop was added to the ip4200---with the ip5200 being marketed as a much faster version of the ip4200.

And now in generation 3 we see the ip4300---presumably with the same chipped set up---and with PC magazine now touting its the new speed demon---as it gains a printhead with exactly the same number of nozzles as the ip5200 that has been out for at least 1.5 years now.

So I now have three basic questions----where is the presumably upcoming ip5300?---and what will it bring to the table?---and above all why should I buy a new chipped Canon when
the unchipped Canons I presently own are far more rational choices cost wise.

And PC magazine can be relied on not to address any of these concerns.

 

[Zepper]

iP5200 hit these shores same time last year. Canon intros new models late summer/early fall like clockwork. Just in time for the PC Mag. printer issue...

.bh.

 

[Pretty Cool]

Guess you no longer read PCMagazine. Last year was the first year in my memory without an issue devoted to printers. Pretty much all the comprehensive review have disappeared. Now, all the reviews/guides are 2 pages long at most with half of that devoted to images. Plus, there does not seem to be a fixed schedule for such guides. They just appear whenever something new comes out. Not too long ago there used to be a couple pages devoted to the release of some major product. Today, all the products for that category occupy less than that. It would not shock me at all if USA Today even has more detailed product reviews than PCMag nowadays.

 

[Zepper]

Yup, haven't sub'd to PC Mag for several years. Only one I have now is PC World. But big Japanese companies (I suppose all big companies) like it in a rut. Inertia is a terrible thing...

.bh.

 

[Lemon law]

As I recall, the printer review issue used to come out in November.----but all these magazines are advertising dollar whores---if you want unbiased reviews look elsewhere. You will find them buried under the 30 million or so other items if you will find if you google ink jet printer.

 

[Gaorn]

are the aftermarket folks any closer to cloning the new chipped tanks?

 

[Zepper]

L-L,
I think the printer issue was one of the weeks in October, but the issue was put to bed quite a bit before that and major test-heavy articles like the Printer issue had product submission deadlines well in advance of that - IOW, late summer early fall.

Gaorn,
. See my post re. your question. It's not far away in the Peripherals section.

.bh.