Customer Reviews
Excellent Canon Product
Very pleased with the features of this Canon mobile printer. Set-up instructions very easy to follow and total time from carton to printing about half hour. An amazing printer for its size. Comprehensive manual included. Light weight compared to laptop. Very satisfied with this purchase.
Cannon Pixma
For a portable printer, this one is pretty good. It's faster than I thought it would be.
I'v had it for a month and only used it twice. The first one I'd received from Amazon was broken, but they sent out a second one pretty quickly.
All in all, I like it's convenient size for traveling. I had also looked at the HP one which is comprable, but thought this one was better on the whole. It doesn't fit very well in my laptop bag...why can't they just build a printer into the laptops, but that's just wishfull thinking....for now.
Satisfied customer
I bought the ip90 to use while traveling, and I've been quite satisfied with the performance. So far I've only used it via IRDA and a USB connection -- I don't have the battery kit, car adapter, nor the Bluetooth adapter, so I can't comment on those. As to the printer itself:
+++ Prints surprisingly fast; I was really stunned by how quickly it spits out pages.
+++ Photos look quite good; also better than I expected. I tried out printing directly from a Windows Mobile phone (over IRDA) with one the 10 sheets of photo paper Canon includes with the printer; worked like a charm!
+++ Great compact size with a reasonable weight... I found one of those "zipper three ring binders" -- where the actual binder rings were removable -- and it makes a great carrying case (since it includes folders for paper!), all for $9.99.
+++ The printer driver natively supports (manual) duplexing, 2-up/4-up/etc. printing, and otherwise is quite full-featured (these days almost everything I print is 2-up/duplexed -- I just don't want the bulk of all that extra paper); not at all 'crippled' like, say, HP printer drivers are for their super-cheap, kinda-compact printers (e.g., the 35xx family). Granted, for the price you pay for the ip90, this should be the case.
--- Text printouts aren't really as black as I'd like; closer to a dark gray.
--- Lines are a little more 'jagged' that what most printers produce these days.
--- True, the price is expensive, although if you think about it, it's still dirt cheap to what printers cost even just 5 years ago. The pricing of printers in general has become warped since then, with the marketing shifting to selling the mass-market printers for little more than cost and making all the profit on the ink... I suppose that Canon figures that with a portable printer like this, you probably won't really be doing THAT much printing, so they'd better get their profit up front?
Overall, I'm quite satisfied. This is a solid product, and -- at least from what I've read in reviews -- seems noticeably better than HP's portable entries.
