Canon S820D Photo Inkjet Printer

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• Item Weight: 14 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 19 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005YX4G
• Item model number: 820D
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 25, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Requiring no special papers to achieve refined color and sharp detail, the S820D from Canon makes prints clear and colorful, borderless photos a snap. It's the ideal companion for your Canon PowerShot S30 or S40 digital camera, as the printer supports a dedicated connection to these models, and it prints directly from any camera's memory card.

The S820D uses a six-color printing process with individual ink tanks (256 x 6 nozzles) to reduce waste. The inks are formulated to provide lightfast photos lasting up to 25 years. Print crisp black and color prints at 2,400 x 1,200 dpi on a wide variety of media, including letter size, legal size, A4, and A5. Canon claims you can print an 8-by-10-inch photo on plain paper in under two minutes and a 4-by-6-inch photo in about one minute.

The printer has a USB interface and is compatible with your Mac or PC. It is packaged with a Canon PCMCIA adapter for CompactFlash cards and a direct interface cable for Canon PowerShot S30 and S40 cameras. Other directly supported memory cards include SmartMedia, Memory Stick, IBM Microdrive, and SD Card. Software includes the printer drivers as well as PhotoRecord and Zoombrowser for Windows, ImageBrowser for Mac, and PhotoStitch for both Windows and Mac. Canon offers a one-year limited warranty on parts and labor.

Product Description

The S820D offers direct printing from Canon PowerShot digital cameras. Simply connect the Canon PowerShot camera to the S820D with the USB cable, crop and custom size your images with the camera LCD and print your selected photos. The S820D produces photo-lab quality borderless prints. The results - instant photographs without using a PC! The S820D supports all popular digital camera memory cards, including CompactFlash, Smart Media, Memory Stick, Secure Digital and MicroDrive. Select which images you want to print, chose your paper size and layout and push the Print button. With the ability to print index sheets, multiple image layouts and borderless prints, the S820D gives you the quality and flexibility of a photo lab in your home or office.By supporting DPOF (Digital Print Order Format), you can pre-select your images and print full A4 or the more traditional size 4" x 6" photos, all without PC connection. It's the fastest direct photo printer ever, printing an A4 photo in less than two minutes giving you instant prints as and when you want them. Everything you print looks truly stunning thanks to brilliant 2400 x1200 dpi resolution, advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology which delivers permanently small drops of just 4pl in size and a six color ink system, with unique 1/6th density photo inks. A whole host of additional features such as Canon's Single Ink, borderless printing, Vivid Photo and Photo Optimizer technologies make the Bubble Jet S820D the best direct photo printer ever.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quiet Quality, June 13, 2002

By	TOL (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews

This is one of the best photo printers that is currently available on the market. It is quiet, uses 25+ year inks, prints near-lab quality prints, and does it quickly. And did I mention that its quiet? I dare you to find a quieter printer on the market. In any case, here are some notes to help you to maximize your experience with this printer:

1. First and foremost, use the recommended Canon photo papers. There really is a difference in the output quality when you use other brands. I used some generic papers and the ink smeared all over the place. Other name brand papers, such as Kodak, gives decent quality, but none that can match the quality of the Canon papers.

2. The S820D is the same printer as the S820 except with the ability to print directly from a PC card. If you do not require this option, go with the S820 and save yourself (money). If you do need this option, note that THIS PRINTER DOES NOT SHIP WITH AN LCD SCREEN FOR VIEWING YOUR PICTURES WITHOUT A COMPUTER... In my opinion, the direct PC card feature is useless without the LCD screen. Why? Well the whole purpose of the direct PC card slot is to be able to use the printer without a computer. But to do that, you need to be able to navigate through the card by using the LCD screen. Without the LCD screen, the only way to navigate through the card is by using a computer. And if you need to hook up to a computer, why have the direct PC card access in the first place? My advice to most users: Go with the S820, buy a cheap USB card reader, and save yourself (money).

3. As with most inkjet printers, ink is expensive. Canon uses six separate ink tanks on this printer, which is a big benefit from the standpoint of not wasting ink, but which is not easy on the wallet come replacement time.

4. If you are using this as your main PC printer, realize that it is significantly slower than most standard PC printers, even in draft mode. It is fast for a photo printer, but slow for a desktop printer. So if you need a fast desktop printer, I would use the S820D as a photo printer only, and have a second desktop printer which does not print photo quality.

My overall advice, this is a fast, quiet, high-quality photo printer if you want to print directly from PC cards without a computer. However, because of its intended purpose, I think Canon should have included the LCD panel with this printer because, without it, it is no better than the S820 which is ...cheaper. If you do not need the direct PC card slot, step down to the S820 and save yourself some money. If you do need the direct PC card slot, you will need to spend ... more and buy the LCD panel from Canon. If they included the LCD panel, this would easily be a 5-star stand-alone photo printer. Without it, 4-stars is the best I can give it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Impressed!!!!, May 7, 2002

By	Tracy M. Brunner "tmichele" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have been eyeing this printer for a couple of months now. I have been very skeptical about buying a photo printer due to its price and especially wondering how the quality would be. I got this printer for my birthday and it is wonderful!

I own a Kodak DX3600 digital camera. I printed pictures from the Kodak on the S820D and the quality is outstanding. The pictures look just as good as the photo lab prints. I was truly amazed at the quality. I like having the separate ink tanks too. That way you won't have to buy an entire cartridge, just the color ink you run out of. A 4*6 picture printed out in less than a minute. The printer is not noisy at all. I used the Photo Paper Pro by Canon. I also printed an 8 1/2*11 picture using Jet Print Photo paper and it took about 2 minutes to print. The quality of this photo was very good. It was slightly grainy but you have to be really close to the picture to even notice. If I put this in a frame and hung it on a wall you wouldn't notice the grain. I printed a picture on regular paper too just to see what it looked like. Of course it didn't come out looking like a photo would but it wasn't too bad. I will definitely be using the Photo Paper Pro by Canon to print my pictures.
I did try the Kodak paper and the HP paper (both photo paper) and the quality on these papers in not nearly as good as the Photo Pro Paper by Canon. The Photo Paper Pro is hard to find in stores and I have ordered it directly from Canon's website but it is definitely the paper to use. The Kodak and the HP photo paper made my pictures look grainy.

All in all I am extremely impressed with this printer and with all the pictures I take I will be saving alot of money in the long run. No more disposable cameras and trips to the 1 hour photo!

4.0 out of 5 stars great printer, August 30, 2002

By A Customer

I agree with the first 3 comments. I did buy the LCD screen but because I use smart media I (I use an Olympus4040) cards I had to buy a different PCMICA adaptor. ... The prints are excellent especially with Photo Pro paper. However, I wish Canon made a wider variety of papers - satin, matte, watercolor, canvas, etc. However, I have had success with Epson Colorlife photo paper and some other Epson papers - just use the highest resolution which is the color transparency setting. The prints are just as good as with Photo Paper Pro (but probably use more ink).