Canon Pixma iP2600 Photo Inkjet Printer (2435B002)

by Canon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10 x 5.6 inches ; 8.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0012S52YS
• Item model number: 2435B002
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #68 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Printers > Inkjet Printers
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

If you want photo-lab quality prints at an exceptional price, the compact and stylish Canon IP2600 Photo Printer is what you're looking for.

The Canon IP2600 delivers photo-lab quality prints with speed and affordability. View Back.

Outstanding Print Quality
Using an advanced patented print head and FINE technology, the IP2600 gives you beautiful, long-lasting borderless prints at a maximum resolution of 4800 x 1200 dpi with droplets as small as 2 picoliters. The printer can print at sizes from a credit card to 8.5 by 11 inches.

For even better results, the Auto Image Fix feature corrects your photos for exposure, color, brightness, and contrast by using scene analysis and face-detection.

Exceptional Speed
There is no need for a photo-quality print: A borderless 4-by-6-inch lab-quality print takes approximately 55 seconds. The IP2600 also does a fantastic job with printing documents. By using a specially formulated pigment black ink, text is crisp and laser-quality, with a higher resistance to smudging. For black text, the IP2600 can print at up to 22 ppm; for text and graphics, it can print up to 17 ppm.

Support for Various Media and Sizes
The Canon IP2600 supports a wide variety of media including plain paper, glossy photo paper, matte photo paper, photo stickers, T-shirt transfers, envelopes, and others. The sheet feeder can hold a maximum of 100 sheets, and can handle A4, B5, A5, letter, legal, envelopes, and even credit card-size media.

The Canon IP2600 uses a USB connection and is compatible with both Windows and Macs. It is backed by a 1-year warranty.

The IP2600 is Windows and Mac compatible, and offers a wide variety of printer options.

What's in the Box
IP2600 photo printer, document kit, PG30 black ink cartridge, CL-31 color ink cartridge, power cord, print head, sample media.

Product Description

This compact photo printer delivers true ease of use and amazing results. Its patented print head technology lets you produce beautiful, long-lasting photos with borderless edges, from credit-card size up to 8.5" x 11", and with resolution up to 4800 x 1200 color dpi1. A 4" x 6" borderless print takes only about 55 seconds. For better results, the Auto Image Fix feature automatically corrects images for the best possible exposure, color, brightness and contrast. And, the specially formulated pigment black ink delivers clear, laser-quality text with better readability and a higher resistance to smudging.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

81 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Serious High Quality For a Ridiculously Low Price, April 24, 2009

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W. Burton (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon Pixma iP2600 Photo Inkjet Printer (2435B002) (Office Product)

Dull photos? Ha! More like "best-kept secret." $30 is a STEAL for print quality at this level. In 10 minutes anyone half-serious about photography or digital color can have this little thing churning out some decidedly nice looking output on a wide variety of stock.

Think color space. Then think luminance.

Spend 10 minutes calibrating this thing and, erm, holy cow. Bright, screen-true prints with bandless gradients and a dynamic range that'll handle almost anything the 8-bit world can throw at it. 30 bucks? Two $20 (retail) cartridges? Are you kidding me?

"MY PICTURES ARE DULL AND WASHED-OUT!"

So adjust your printer. This basic calibration process should be performed on any new printer if you're serious about image quality. You need to make your printouts look as much as possible like the corresponding images on your monitor. Even if you're not obsessive about the subject, they should still come pretty close (assuming the device is for general use or generic proofing).

A. In the driver settings dialog, on the Main tab, change "Color/Intensity" to "manual," and click the Set button. This brings up a new dialog.

B. Skip immediately to the Matching tab, and change the settings as appropriate. You need to learn about color spaces if you're serious about digital images, but most likely your actual display is set to a profile called "sRGB," which corresponds to ICM->Standard on this driver settings screen.

C. Go back to the color adjustment tab. Now you're going to start tweaking the machine to compensate directly for the poor-quality output. You're going to make changes, and then print out a calibration image to see if you've hit your mark.

You can download calibration images on the web, which are often collages that include color gradients, color charts, skin tones, nature scenes, lighting variations, grayscale images, etc. Or you can make a collage from your own images. Just make sure it covers the subjects and attributes you'll be printing most. Usually if I can hit skin tones, everything else falls into place.

REMEMBER: The goal is not to get "appealing" skin tones. The goal is to get skin tones that match what you see on your monitor. Also, remember that your monitor is a source of light, and a photo is not. A printout needs to be lit sufficiently to make a fair comparison with its digital counterpart.

D. Start with the Intensity and the Contrast sliders. Move them SLIGHTLY to the right. I started at 4, printed a test, and then went in increments of 2 before finally arriving at an optimal value of 8 for both settings. You may get better results adjusting them more or less, in sync or not, whatever. Depends on how your monitor's calibrated, among other things.

E. That's PROBABLY all you'll have to do. But if there's a printout problem that's truly a question of a color's ***hue*** (which shouldn't occur if you've matched the profiles) and not its ***luminance***, you can adjust the ink volume CMY sliders at the top. I personally didn't have to do this.

"BUT THE INK RUNS OUT TOO FAST!"

1. The 30/31 cartridges that came with your printer are fully compatible with the PG40 and the PG41. Just like the box says. And your Quick Start Guide. And your manual.

So what? Well, the 40 and the 41 give somewhere between twice and three times the yield of the 30 and the 31. And they cost the same. Go figure.

2. If you want a high-volume printer, you bought the wrong machine. The 30 bucks should've been a hint. ;-)

"MY SHEETS FALL ALL OVER THE FLOOR!"

Umm, swing the little arm out.

44 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Value........4800DPI....Store Quality Prints, August 24, 2008

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Curt Edward Mueller "Digital Printer Bindery" (Savannah, Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon Pixma iP2600 Photo Inkjet Printer (2435B002) (Office Product)

So me and the wife are in the Walmart and come across this printer for 30 bucks.......and I'm thinking....whats the catch. So we pull out the Treo and consumer search it and its reviews are pretty good. Now understand if you put in low quality picture at this resolution it will look like its supposed too......LOW QUALITY. But the higher resolution pictures look unbelievable. They do not include the USB to Firewire cable and you only find out when you get home. It doesn't even tell you on the box that you need the firewire. Luckily I had one. The pictures look amazing on the Glossy II paper and since I work at a print shop with Half Million Dollar machines.....I can say this printer is Explosively Bang for your Buck. It comes with 4x6 photo paper and I will be cutting the 8.5x11 down to save some money. GREAT PRINTER

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ink Slurper, October 21, 2009

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Ronald K. Goodenow (Northboro, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon Pixma iP2600 Photo Inkjet Printer (2435B002) (Office Product)

I've been using Canon printers happily since the very first Bubble Jet. Over the years I learned how to use bulk ink, relatively inexpensive non-OEM cartridges, etc. I've used a few HP printers, but they always seemed to develop hardware or other problems after a year or so. So I picked up the ip2600 for general use, mainly in my home office, where I simply want something to print documents (usually in fast mode greyscale). Occasionally something in color. When I want to do prints I use an ip3500, in the basement, which does a much better job.

This printer will take you to the poor house. It goes through these tiny and over-priced chipped cartridges at a stunning rate. The overall quality is pretty good. Not brilliant, but certainly passable. But, holy cow, Canon has joined the rip-off ranks. So, now this one goes to the basement for emergency purposes only. Come on guys, if you're going to do these chipped cartridges, at least make them with decent capacity at a fair price.