Graphics were just short of very good, with some minor visible banding, and a tendency for sheets with full page graphics to curl. The iP3000, in contrast, took only 15:48 for the business suite and 11:03 for the photo suite, leaving the iP2000 in the dust.įor output quality rankings, the iP2000 earned a good rating for text, with more than half the fonts we test with easily readable at 4 points. On the photo suite it took a total for all photos of 23:48. On our business applications suite (using QualityLogic's hardware and software, the iP2000 took a total of 26 minutes 48 seconds.
The Q&A troubleshooter helped a lot to isolate our problem, though Canon could stand to round out the multiple-choice options. Canon provides e-mail support, but in response to a few general questions, we got only somewhat helpful automated responses. You can find free, well-written tutorials, FAQs, and downloadable manuals online. Toll-free tech support is available from Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.
Per-page costs run approximately 4 cents for a standard (20 percent coverage) letter-size page and 15 cents for an 8x10 photo.Ĭanon includes an industry-standard one-year warranty. The iP3000 runs a bit slower than its big brother, averaging 6.64 pages per minute on text and 2.5 minutes per page when printing an 8x10 photo. The iP3000 had a harder time than the iP4000 with fine details, but our images did come out nicely saturated. As with the iP4000, the iP3000's test photos showed a lot of dithering (meaning you could tell that the graphical and photo elements were made up of blended dots).
Text looked especially bad next to graphical elements, and colored graphics had a generally inconsistent, washed-out tone. The iP3000's text output looks identical to the iP4000's, which, while pretty good, loses points for feathering around the letters. The iP3000 costs $50 less than its big brother, but it's a bit slower and produces output that's even worse than the iffy iP4000's. Pixma, shorthand for pixel maximum, represents the latest spin on Canon's consumer marketing strategy, which the company states is "to make it easier to print out better photos." Alas, the iP3000 fails to live up to its billing, at least as far as the "better" part is concerned. The Pixma iP3000 is number two of four in Canon's Pixma line.
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