Canon S900 Photo Inkjet Printer
Canon presents the Bubble Jet S900 as its new flagship photo printer building on the success of the award-winning Bubble Jet S800. The S900 provides the same stunning quality as the S800, while printing photographs up to three times faster than its nearest competitor. The S900 includes Canon's advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology to give the highest control of ink in terms of accurate dot placement, dot shape and dot density. Incorporating Canon's highly praised Single Ink technology, the Bubble Jet S900 offers individually replaceable ink tanks designed to eliminate waste and save consumers money, as well as an accurate ink-low and ink-out detection system to ensure that no print jobs are wasted.The S900 is the fast borderless photo printing solution allowing the production of images that are indistinguishable from traditional photographs. The S900 makes borderless printing realistic for everyday use, as it prints edge-to-edge photos up to five times faster than its competitors.
With a combination of speed, precision, and brilliant color, the Canon S900 brings professional-quality printing to home desktops. Print speeds as low as 37 seconds for a border-free, 4-by-6-inch print and about a minute for an 8-by-10-inch print are suitably impressive, while a system of six ink tanks (one of each is included in the box) allows you to economically replace just the colors you use most, cutting back on both cost and waste. The bubble-jet-style print head is equipped with 3,072 nozzles, which use Canon's Microfine Droplet technology to guarantee crisp, accurate detail and rich colors. With a resolution of 2,400 x 1,200 dpi and 49 levels of gradation, your photos will come out looking clean, bright, and true to life. The border-free printer settings for 4-by-6-inch stock result in professional-looking, edge-to-edge photos you can be proud of. A large number of paper types and sizes are easily accommodated, including transparencies, fabric transfers, photo cards, banners, envelopes, letter, legal, A4, A5, and more. The S900's paper tray can hold up to 100 sheets of 17-lb. paper. Installation is easy thanks to a convenient USB port, while a software bundle--including appropriate drivers, a user's guide, PhotoRecord (PC), ImageBrowser (Mac), ZoomBrowser (PC), and PhotoStitch (PC/Mac)--helps you get the most out of your printer. A power cable and sample paper pack is also included. Weighing about 13 pounds, the S900 has a modest footprint, measuring just 17.4 by 12.8 inches. Canon provides a one-year warranty, with Instant Exchange service, covering parts and service.
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Canon S900 Photo Inkjet Printer Reviews
The Canon S900 is awesome with color photo prints.
Prints look like they were purchased from a photo lab.
I have had this printer for almost two years but the print head went out on me recently.
If you are considering this printer, you should check out newer models especially the HPs since they are now receiving some of the highest ratings from Consumer Reports and Cnet.
At the highest print setting, it is very difficult to find any pixels like you would normally find on cheap printers.
It is very fast with great detail.
At this price, it makes sense to purchase a new printer since you can get a decent printer these days for $100.00.
Canon sells a replacement print head for $70.00 but you also need to include tax and shipping which will make it over $80.00.
I have had good results using Kodak Photo Paper in this printer. I love this printer, Ink cost about $2.00 a color. For a cost of about $12.00 you can replace all the ink cartridges in this printer, try that with other brands. I have had my S900 for more that a year and during that time I have printed over 2000 8.5 x 11 color photos with this printer. The print head will clog from time to time , but running it under warm tap water and allowing it to dry has always fixed the problem.
It seems like I am getting five to seven full-page ultra-high resolution prints from a set of cartridges before they run dry. Thanks - TechE However, the unit seems to use quiet a bit of ink just turning on. As an added bonus, the unit prints nice text [though not the equal of many laser printers, which excel at text], but again, it uses color ink to shade and hint when printing, and this consumes a lot of ink. I have had this printer for well over a year. shading perhaps ).
Even using small "web samples", the printer produces beautiful 4x6 prints. While not a professional model, and hence, slower than one would hope, the unit itself is very effective for the home user. Even setting it to print grayscale seems to use color ink (. Given a suitably high-resolution source image, and if it is set properly, the image quality, especially the blues, is staggering. I don't print all that much, but when I do, I print a lot.
So far, the only single complaint I could possibly make of it is that it chews threw ink cartridges like gumballs. The images themselves are absolutely breathtaking (if you have a good source and mod the internal printer setting to optimize your medium). The text itself is very legible and easy on the eyes (make sure to set your lines properly in the printer setting section - otherwise, after installing new ink cartridges, the print and image quality will degrade significantly). Outside of the expense of a new set of six ink cartridges, the printing quality of this unit is absolutely magnificent.
I understand there are some 3rd party papers that work well in this printer but I have yet to use one. Once the waste ink pads are full, the printer will not print any more and you have to have the printer serviced if you ever want to use it again. Namaste and Good luck. I was quoted $135 to replace the head and pads. A new print head is around $85 and the waste ink pads are about $25 just for the parts. Using the cleaning feature seems to waste a lot of ink and this will fill up or saturate the waste ink pads inside the printer.
I then found a refurbished S900 here on Amazon for $99. I've probably printed between 300-500 full page (letter size or 8x10) prints with some smaller prints mixed in. I had mine for almost two years before it started acting up. Using the cleaning or deep cleaning feature helped at first but it clogged again last night very soon after cleaning it. It seems to look as good as the Photo Paper Pro and costs a little less.
It is not going to hold up long if you print hundreds of pages per month. It has now started clogging (one or more colors stop coming out) and doesn't appear to be as sharp as it used to be. Keep in mind this is a consumer printer. I just bought the refurbished printer and wrote this review to help those of you who are having similar issues. Kodak paper in particular (even their best paper) does NOT work well in this printer. It supposedly comes in the box from Canon and has a 90 day warranty and comes with ink. Since I did like the printer when it was working and because I already have extra ink for it, I was going to get it fixed. Mine hasn't stopped working yet but I'm sure the waste ink is getting full and I'm tired of wasting ink anyway by trying to "clean" it.From reading up on this printer on the Web, it appears the print head is the weak link.
I prefer the Canon Photo Paper Plus Glossy. If it comes with all six colors of Cannon ink, that is worth $72 alone. If not, I'm going to find the nearest Canon office and throw both printers through the front window.One more thing, don't waste your time, money or ink by using non-Canon paper. Some people have had it replaced several times. I hope the refurbished printer works. I have tried Kodak, HP, Epson, and a few other brands and they all stink.
The color gamut of OEM inks is, in my opinion, better too. Well, I hate to admit it, but there is a BIG DIFFERENCE between OEM and everything else. So I inquired and ordered a new one - $85 thank you very much. But the continuing technical problems make this printer a lemon. I took the (new) broken printhead back to the store and they replaced it free. I love the quality of the prints, absolutely terrific.
Canon should be punished for releasing a sub-standard printer like this on to the market. I replaced my S900 with the i960 and I use only OEM inks, never had a problem, not one, ever.
Then the print head broke, horrible banding that simply couldn't be fixed. I paid $350 in early 2002 when this printer came out and I feel I overpaid given the recurring problems.
JAN 2005: I discovered the source of my printing problems - non-OEM inks. I got sick of paying $11/cartridge for genuine ink so I opted for the cheap stuff.
I had the S900 for over a year and everything worked perfectly. Now, March 2004, the print head has broken down - AGAIN.
I got it home and within 5 minutes it too had broken. That was in December 2003.
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