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Canon I9900 Digital Photo Inkjet Printer
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Thought it would need a new print head, and I have a new I used to try to fix my last printer. But a couple of ink cartridges to replace that were low, did a print head alignment and viola, pics print great on glossy photo paper. Very happy as these printers print good quality up 13 x 19. full bleed to 11 x 17. AND DON'T REQUIRE CHIPS IN THE REPLACEMENT CARTRIDGES. Next generation of printers were trending to cheaper quality. I've seen these printers altered to convert to 1 Liter jugs of ink with flexible hollow tubing and run them in small print shops for 8 - 16 hrs a day. One of my favorite e-bay purchases period...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
The unit was defective and never functioned correctly. A waste of money. My previous one was a great unit, but the logic board was damaged by a new defective Canon (not a 3rd. party) print head. Canon should design these printers to be more forgiving.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
For about 6 years before trying the Canon i9900, I had a HP DesignJet 10PS. That printer had a reputation based on its incomplete and poorly designed RIP software. With concentrated effort, I was able to get that printer going and produced some very decent prints. I liked the fact that I was able to go for over 2 years with the enormous HP ink cartridges, without having to replace them. At that time, I had been looking at resolution of media versus lens resolution. I felt that my DesignJet probably exceeded the resolving power of any of my scanning or digital camera output. Finally one day, the power supply on my DesignJet fizzed out.I went online looking for a replacement printer or even an upgrade. I found a used i9900 on eBay. I had to buy a new print head, but was happy because I came out of the deal with a perfectly usable i9900 for less than $200.I was a bit skeptical that the i9900 would produce a resolution comparable to the DesignJet.however, I was pleasantly surprised to see that not only did the i9900 produce an equivalent resolution, but also that the color rendering was more vivid, more pleasing to the eye, and more accurate than the exact same photos produced on the DesignJet. One difference that represents a possible drawback for the Canon i9900 is the fact that the cartridges are much smaller than the DesignJet's. this translates to more frequent replacement, more cost per print, and more possibilities of making a real mess, as some of the third-party replacement cartridges for the Canon can leak and drain.as an amateur with limited resources to pour into my art, the expense of the OEM Canon cartridges exceed that which is reasonable. On the other hand, despite occasional leaky messes, the color output and gamut of the third party ink supplies are more than adequate for my purposes. I would advise being extremely cautious about attempting to install the third-party continuous ink supply systems (CISS), unless you know in advance that the supplier had actually tried their system on a real i9900. The first attempt I made on that score turned out to be a complete disaster. I am convinced that whoever had sold me that had never really tried installing one on an actual printer. I will perhaps write a new review on one of those CISS's if or when I ever get one to actually work on the Canon i9900.Read full review
I bought a Canon i9900 for home use because I was looking for a great photo printer to compliment a new 10.2 megapixel Nikon camera. I found a new i9900 on sale and it does a fine job. Borderless prints look great but that only works automatically on specific sizes. Sometimes cropping, stretching or squeezing images is necessary. The canon pro photo paper works very well. The paper has to be loaded on the right side of the movable guide otherwise you get paper jams. Large format paper is expensive but the results are great. I don't have enough wall space for all the great prints I have made in just a couple of days playing with this printer. There are 8 ink cartidges (about CAN$18 each in Toronto). This mitigates runnig low on one color in a multi-color cartdidge but I found it is not easy to buy all of the ink colors, at least not all from the same place. I have a color ink replacement kit but it does not have 4 of the special color inks used by this printer. Unlike some other inkjet printers, this printer has a (replaceable) print head. The color cartrides do not have print heads. That saves on the price of ink cartidges. I am not sure if that will cause operating life concerns. I have a wireless network at home and wanted to make this a wireless network printer. I managed to do that using a Linksys 802.11g print server (which cost about CAN$130 extra). Now any of my 2 Windows XP PCs or my Win2000 laptop can print great color images wirelessly. The printer supports USB 2.0 under Windows or Firewire under MAC OS. The Linksys print server only works one way so while you can print, you cannot tell the printer status. I believe D-Link offers a bi-directional print server capability but it is only documented to works on certain HP printers. The only visual feedback on the printer for diagnostics is a single light that flashes green or yellow (maybe red too??) and you need to read the manual to figure out the flashing codes. I only needed this when trying to get everything working in the beginning. The factory sealed printer comes with a quick start guide. The full manual is on disk, with the Win/Mac drivers. The printer seems very fast. The resolution is high in both the horizontal and vertical axis. It has a neat automatic power shut down and remote start up function which should be a great power saver. This printer does not print on CDs or DVDs, nor does it read memory cards of any kind but it is supposed to be Pictbridge(tm) compatible for direct connection to certain cameras. However, I cannot think of any reason to print directly from a digital camera to this high quality printer. Anyone serious enough to buy this printer will probably want to first post-process their images in Photoshop(tm), or whatever image manipulation software, before making hard copies. Printing blind from the camera could make costly mistakes. There may be better photo printers out there but this is a good one for reasons discussed above. If you can get it for a decent price I would recommend it. Sincerely, pmanuel_caRead full review
Excellent printer, I have used the 6 color Canons for years and liked them. The 8 color Canon i9900 is nothing short of fantastic. I decided on the i9900 because it uses ink tanks that are not "chipped" so can be refilled if one wanted. My previous Canon S900 & S9000 six color printers were not capable of printing full bleed edge to edge prints. I was expecting borderless printing on 13"X19" Photo Paper to be stunning. I was unprepaired for the difference the vivid eight color printing, and the borderless 13"X19" printing would make. These large photograpic images are nothing less than fantastic. I bought two i9900 printers using eBay. One was brand new in an unopened box and is really fantastic in print quality. I intend to use this printer only with genuine Canon ink in order to insure maxiumum print life for those photographic images I really care about displaying. The other was apparently well used and needed some adjustment as the print head was dragging on the paper mostly from center to end of travel, making odd noises as it traveled across the paper and leaving marks in the surface of photo paper. After height adjustments were made to the guide bar, that printer also prints acceptably and is fine for proofing and general use. The color quality on this printer is fine however the print quality is simply not the same as the new printer. The prints sometimes are not as clean on this printer with little ink marks in places. I intend to use after-market ink in this second printer. I may also refill ink tanks myself or I will install a continuous ink system so that I can use the printer for color posters etc. I highly recommend the Canon i9900 8 color printer. The color is stunning and the use of ink tanks that can be refilled is a plus over the current model being sold at this time (current model has "ink-out" chips on ink tanks).Read full review
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