If you want photo-lab quality prints at an exceptional price, the compact and stylish Canon IP2600 Photo Printer is what you're looking for.
The Canon IP2600 delivers photo-lab quality prints with speed and affordability. View Back. |
Outstanding Print Quality Using an advanced patented print head and FINE technology, the IP2600 gives you beautiful, long-lasting borderless prints at a maximum resolution of 4800 x 1200 dpi with droplets as small as 2 picoliters. The printer can print at sizes from a credit card to 8.5 by 11 inches.
For even better results, the Auto Image Fix feature corrects your photos for exposure, color, brightness, and contrast by using scene analysis and face-detection.
Exceptional Speed There is no need for a photo-quality print: A borderless 4-by-6-inch lab-quality print takes approximately 55 seconds. The IP2600 also does a fantastic job with printing documents. By using a specially formulated pigment black ink, text is crisp and laser-quality, with a higher resistance to smudging. For black text, the IP2600 can print at up to 22 ppm; for text and graphics, it can print up to 17 ppm.
Support for Various Media and Sizes The Canon IP2600 supports a wide variety of media including plain paper, glossy photo paper, matte photo paper, photo stickers, T-shirt transfers, envelopes, and others. The sheet feeder can hold a maximum of 100 sheets, and can handle A4, B5, A5, letter, legal, envelopes, and even credit card-size media.
The Canon IP2600 uses a USB connection and is compatible with both Windows and Macs. It is backed by a 1-year warranty.
The IP2600 is Windows and Mac compatible, and offers a wide variety of printer options. |
Included with this Product IP2600 photo printer, document kit, PG30 black ink cartridge, CL-31 color ink cartridge, power cord, print head, sample media.
Dull photos? Ha! More like "best-kept secret." $30 is a STEAL for print quality at this level. In 10 minutes anyone half-serious about photography or digital color can have this little thing churning out some decidedly nice looking output on a wide variety of stock. Think color space. Then think luminance. Spend 10 minutes calibrating this thing and, erm, holy cow. Bright, screen-true prints with bandless gradients and a dynamic range that'll handle almost anything the 8-bit world can throw at it. 30 bucks? Two $20 (retail) cartridges? Are you kidding me? "MY PICTURES ARE DULL AND WASHED-OUT!" So adjust your printer. This basic calibration process should be performed on any new printer if you're serious about image quality. You need to make your printouts look as much as possible like the corresponding images on your monitor. Even if you're not obsessive about the subject, they should still come pretty close (assuming the device is for general use or generic proofing). A. In the driver settings dialog, on the Main tab, change "Color/Intensity" to "manual," and click the Set button. This brings up a new dialog. B. Skip immediately to the Matching tab, and change the settings as appropriate. You need to learn about color spaces if you're serious about digital images, but most likely your actual display is set to a profile called "sRGB," which corresponds to ICM-
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