Canon S520 Color Bubble Jet Photo Printer

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• Shipping Weight: 16 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005YX3R
• Item model number: 520
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (78 customer reviews)
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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 25, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
The Canon S520 color bubble inkjet printer provides flexibility with refined color, precision, and detail for photo printing. The S520 uses four individual ink tanks for cost savings, and with both USB and parallel ports, it's a suitable match to your Mac or PC.

Canon's trademarked MicroFine Droplet technology ably provides crisp clean black text in 600 x 600 dpi and color prints at 2,400 x 1,200 dpi, on a wide variety of media. Rated speeds are up to 14 pages per minute for black and 9 ppm for color. Canon claims you can even get 4-by-6-inch borderless prints in less than a minute. Supported papers include plain, banners, envelopes, and glossy photo cards.

This quiet printer (only 42 dB in best quality mode) will suit most light-duty tasks in small offices and at home. When ink levels are low, simply drop in the single color cartridge you need, reducing waste. Software includes the printer drivers and the BJ Solution Disk CD-ROM. On the latter, titles for Windows include PhotoRecord and ZoomBrowser; for Mac, ImageBrowser; and for both, PhotoStitch. Canon offers a one-year limited warranty on parts and labor.

Product Description
Featuring Canon's high-speed head technology, bi-directional printing and a high-speed sheet feeder, the Bubble Jet S520 can produce print speeds of up to 14 ppm in mono and 9 ppm in color without compromising on quality. The Bubble Jet S520 is also equipped with a print resolution of 2400 x 1200 dpi, and Canon's sophisticated advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology, which delivers permanently small drops of just 5 pl in size. Add Canon's High Color inks and you can be assured of stunning quality print outs as standard. In addition, the S520 comes with ingenious image enhancers such as Vivid Photo and Photo Optimizer technologies, Single Ink technology that cuts down on wasted ink, ink low and ink out detectors, plus a networking option. All this makes the Canon S520 a great addition to any busy office.Used with Canon Photo Paper Pro, the Bubble Jet S520 brings 25-year lightfastness to your output for fade resistant archiving and displays. Plus the Bubble Jet S520 opens up superb creative options, accepting a vast range of media, from Transparency Film and Glossy Photo Paper to Photo Cards and more. The Bubble Jet S520 also offers true borderless printing, making it possible to effectively print "full-bleed" images, adding a really professional look and feel to your printed A4 or even 10 x 15 cm photos. The Canon S520 features an advanced printer driver for easy point-and-click usability that will have you up, running and printing professional-looking documents and photos in minutes. All straight from the box. Fully compatible and networkable with USB and parallel connectivity, the Bubble Jet S520 offers assured compatibility with all the major computing platforms.

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Customer Reviews

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115 of 117 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Printer for an Affordable Price, March 9, 2002

By	Xam "mixed media man" (nyc) - See all my reviews

I needed a new inkjet printer and wanted something high-quality but also below $200. So I surfed the web and looked over many websites and reviews. I gathered that the Canon S series is the best for the money. The Canon S520 features four separate ink tanks so you can replace individual colors as they run out, which will save you money in the long run. It's also a fast printer, but I'm not usually in much of a hurry to print something. If you print a picture in high-quality resolution it can take a little longer (still quite speedy), but the results are fabulous. I've only used cheap plain paper so far, but photos and graphics still look really great. I'm sure it would look even better on higher quality paper. Also, plain text was printed very crisply as well, no complaints in that department. The printer is even really quiet, it makes very little noise. Overall I was really happy with this Canon S520 printer; it prints great looking color graphics/photos and it's pretty cheap, quiet and fast. I really can't find any fault with this printer, it's performed beyond expectations. Top-quality color inkjet printer - 5 STARS!

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great printer for the money, March 29, 2002

By A Customer

OK, I did a fair amount of research for printers in this price range and cheaper. I banged along on an old Epson 400 for years until my upgrade to XP left me without a driver. I thought about replacing it with another Epson but caught wind of too many hit and miss problems with quality control and customer service.
Setup was quite easy. The printer is quick by my standards, shooting out a text draft that to me I would not be ashamed to send to anyone. I put in a sheet of high end photo paper and was very impressed with the results, though I did not buy it for that purpose. I like using the parallel port and saving an available USB port. In addition, I put an envelope in to print, a procedure I dreaded with the old Epson. Slick as a whistle, out came a clean smudge free envelope. I like the idea of individual ink tanks though I've not had to deal with a refill. I've had the printer a few weeks now and am very happy with it! Minor negative is the output tray. It has a concave design wich was well thought out, but the lip that attaches to the printer is shallow and if bumped will detach and spill your contents. Once I found it was vulnerable, I'm now careful not to bump it. That said, I'd buy it again!

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get this printer..., July 22, 2002

By	V.M. (New York) - See all my reviews

I've had the S520 for a couple of months now and I must say this by far has been the best printer I've ever owned. It prints excellent 4x6 photos taken with my digital camera with almost the same accuracy as regular 35mm photos that you would get from Kodak. I mean, no one could tell the difference between the photos I printed out on this machine and the photos that are developed at a photolab. Canon says to use the Canon Photo Pro paper to achieve great results, however, I've used Hewlett Packard 4x6 photo paper and color photos and non color photos have come out very nicely. It also prints text well.
Most importantly, the S520 is very easy on the ink. This was the major problem I had with my previous Epson Stylus C60. Since I've had this printer, I've not had to change the the cartridges yet! And I've had this printer for 4 months. I know that's not a long time but when I had the Epson C60, I had it for about the same amount of time and had to replace the cartridges 3 times.
All and all, this is an excellent printer. Reasonably priced and cost efficient.
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