Canon i70 Color Bubble Jet Printer

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Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 15 x 5.6 x 9.8 inches ; 8.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008CMU9
• Item model number: 70
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 3, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

A versatile mobile color printer, the Canon i70 Color Bubble Jet sports an attractive price tag and is ideal for a wide variety of home and office uses. A 600 x 600 dpi resolution (black) and 4,800 x 1,200 dpi resolution (color) combine with a total of 704 print nozzles, resulting in bright, crisp, and detailed prints. Print speeds are an impressive 13 ppm black and white and 9 ppm color, while photo-quality 4-by-6-inch prints take as little as 90 seconds.

The i70 connects via USB, parallel port, or CompactFlash Type II slot for easy interfacing, and can print from supported Canon digital cameras and camcorders, with or without a PC. Both Windows and Mac drivers are included; and for PCs only, wireless infrared IrDA printing is available with Windows-compatible devices.

Truly mobile, this lightweight printer (4 pounds) fits nicely into most briefcases, measuring just 12.4 by 6.9 by 2.0 inches when closed. You can run the i70 with the included AC power adapter or buy the optional Portable Kit, which includes a lithium ion battery rated for 450 pages per 2-hour charge and a battery holder to charge the battery while attached to the printer.

A wide variety of paper types are supported, including envelopes, glossy photo paper, matte photo paper, transparencies, T-shirt transfers, and more, as well as paper sizes from 4 by 6 inches to A4. The software bundle helps users get the most out of their prints with Easy-PhotoPrint, Easy-WebPrint, PhotoRecord, ZoomBrowser EX, ImageBrowser, and PhotoStitch. Epson also provides a one-year limited warranty.

What's in the Box
Printer, sheet feeder, paper tray, power supply and cord, BCI-15 black ink tank, BCI-15 color ink tank, software and driver CD-ROM, instructions, setup and warranty information

Product Description

The Canon i70 Color Bubble Jet Printer delivers a remarkable combination of high-performance and portability. It's capable of printing up to 13 ppm in black and up to 9 ppm in color, while achieving a resolution of up to 4800 x 1200 color dpi. Try finding that speed and resolution in another portable printer. Plus, Canon advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology uses a revolutionary nozzle system that ejects consistent prescribed-volume droplets in microscopic sizes, with incredible accuracy. The result? Dramatic resolution and detail on graphics and photos, along with clean, crisp text - from your home office, from the front seat of your car, or wherever you are.Canon brings yet another first to portable ink jet printers: true borderless prints, with the look and feel of traditional photographs. Now you can produce 4" x 6", 5" x 7" or 8.5" x 11" borderless prints on the road, with stunning edge-to-edge quality and razor-sharp detail. Print photos fast on the i70 printer - this mobile photo lab prints 4" x 6" photos in approximately 90 seconds.With Bubble Jet Direct printing, and a compatible Canon digital camera or digital camcorder you can print with or without a PC - print anytime, any place. It is easy-to-use with sophisticated results. This means you can shoot a picture when you're on the go and print it immediately, which is ideal for both work and play. The i70 printer features IrDA compatibility (Windows only) for remote operation and a USB interface for easy connectivity. It also includes Canon Easy-WebPrint (Windows only) - software designed for simple, fast and hassle-free Web page printing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

71 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VERY HANDY, LOOKS NIFTY, AND PRINTS FAST!, November 3, 2003

By	Shashank Tripathi (Gadabout) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

THE GOOD:

(1) This is the lightest printer among peers. HP's 450cbi, the closest alternative in my book, is nowhere near as portable as the i70.

(2) Prints directly from a digicam. I use Canon's G3, and I can now share photo print-outs straight from my camera. No need to lug my laptop around.

(3) The battery life is great, don't believe detractors. IN general you don't need the battery -- that is only for outings, for those occasions when you just have to print out something while sitting by the lake.

(4) It is FAST! Especially for color prints, it outpaces my full-blown HP laserjet.

(5) It is QUIET. You'll have to get used to its noiseless printing. First time round, I had to check to make sure the paper was printed on.

(6) Is a breeze to INSTALL. Something you can expect from Canon, of course.

(7) Works with both Windows and Macs.

CAVEATS:

(1) The photo quality may not appeal to shutterbugs, especially if NOT printed on photo paper, but for general office workers with little desk space or for folks with a packed travel roster, the i70 is a pretty safe bet.

(2) The ink costs may sky rocket quite quickly if you print colored stuff often. If, like me, your general printing is B&W, then this is a great buy.

(3) The price, especially if you buy the battery pack. But there are deals if you know where to look.

SUMMARY:

A great overall printer, definitely if you need to carry one around. I purchase Epson's photo paper (not Canon's own) for color shots and the i70 prints more than adequately. The speed, the quality and the quietness make it one of my top printer recommendations -- all things said, even better than a regular inkjet.

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable little printer, March 31, 2003

By	Paul Hite (Ashburn, Va USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I just bought this yesterday, so this is just my initial impressions.... I saw it in the store beside the HP 450. The i70 was about half the size of the 450. The Cannon rep was there and I asked for both a photo and text to be printed. The results were pretty awesome for such a tiny printer. This is just the perfect printer for a laptop.

But the only connections are via USB or infra-red. No parallel port! (That official Amazon.com review is wrong about this.) It comes with AC adaptor.... Also no USB cable. So it winds up being pricey. But it's worth it. It's also very good looking... not like that older model (Cannon 85?) which was an ugly black box.

The infra-red port is on the right side. My laptop's infra-red port is also on the right. Since I didn't want a backwards printer, I went with the USB connect. Installation was very easy. They give you a large, but one-page step-by-step guide. I was printing in about 15 minutes.

It has one tub for color ink and a second tub for black ink. So if you print a lot of text, you won't use up that expensive color ink.

I hope that this printer can last as long as an HP printer. If it can, Cannon has HP beat.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Forget the feature list. This printer really IS portable., October 28, 2003

By	Esther Schindler (Scottsdale, AZ USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

My husband was going to a two-week writer's workshop, and needed a printer to bring along. We bought a Canon i70 bubble jet printer, even though it cost considerably more than most low-end printers. We haven't regretted the purchase for a moment.

The printer has two strong marks in its favor:

* It weighs only 7 pounds. It's also about the size of a hardback novel, and slid right into his iBook-and-computer backpack. (Other people had to ship a box, complete with styrofoam and packing tape.)

* The ink cartridges cost $11 each. (Amazon's likely to cut the dollar amount, so I'll also point out this costs less than two fast-food dinners.)

At the relatively low ink price, we assumed that the printer would go through ink faster than I can eat a box of Lindt chocolate truffles. So we made sure to get a second cartridge before he left. To his surprise, a single ink cartridge lasted the entire two weeks -- even though he went through an entire ream of paper. (Not single-spaced with lots of fonts, and no color to speak of, but that's still pretty impressive.)

Note, however, that the i70 doesn't hold a lot of sheets at a time. That wasn't a criteria for the traveling printer (and we have a color laser at home, so it doesn't get much use off-the-road), but it might matter to you.

To be honest, we haven't done any real color printing on it yet, other than to test that it worked. So I can't speak to that. However, it's certainly fast.

Bottom line: if you need a truly portable printer, I don't think you'll do better than this. While plenty of other inkjets are light enough that, yeah, if you had to bring it along you COULD, the Canon i70 is easy enough to grab and stuff in your luggage. You'll take it along without a second thought.