Compare Prices : Canon PIXMA IP 100

Review summary: Designed for portability, Canon's PIXMA iP100 printer promises to produce 'photo lab quality prints', although its specifications are more attuned to office printing. It's a four-colour printer with separate cartridges for black pigment ink and dye ...

Verdict: and Costs Document print quality from the black, pigmented-ink cartridge was clean and almost laser-like in quality. Coloured documents also printed out very well with even solid colours and accurate registration of text on coloured backgrounds

Review summary: This little printer (32cm long by 18.5cm deep and 62cm thick and weighing 2kg) is designed to go anywhere with a laptop computer. It comes with a rechargeable battery. There are two small ink cartridges, one black and one four-colour. Paper up to A4 ...

Pros: The output from the printer is consistently good after some fiddling with the print parameters. Images printed tended to be a little darker than on screen. Print speed is good, faster than some standard photo printers. The black ink is pigment and the ...

Cons: The price is inexplicably high. In the US this machine sells for AUD $258. Why does it cost $200 more here? Neither GST nor market size will justify this difference. And American reviewers are critical of what they consider a high price in their shops!

Verdict: The combination of small size and light weight, together with the respectable print speed, make this printer an ideal companion for a business laptop. Because it doesn't hang around when printing it is possible to turn out printed pages from a ...

Review summary: Canon's range of Pixma inkjet printers have made a good name for themselves over the years. Most are desktop machines, but the iP100 is a portable printer, designed to be carried around with you. It weighs just 2kg - a bit more if you attach the ...

Verdict: Even with these extra costs though, the Pixma iP100's excellent print quality means you have to sacrifice very little for the ability to take your printer with you. This device makes an excellent companion to just about any laptop

Review summary: It's pricey to run, but if you need something compact for the home office or for printing on the move, it's a price worth paying.

Verdict: Despite its high running costs, and to some extent the high purchase price if you include the lithium ion battery, this is an excellent portable printer. To those that need to print away from the mains, perhaps in a car or even on-site, in the middle ...