How quickly does this printer go through ink when printing black and white documents? I'm looking to use it for both photo printing as well as printing documents when I work from home.
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The answer really depends upon what is called the coverage ratio. Most printers assume that about 5% of the paper will be covered in ink, such as a printed page of text. However, once you go to something with much denser print (like pictures, that cover the entire page), then the number of pages you get goes down drastically -- like by a factor of 20 times (5% x 20 = 100%). What is really a good thing to do is go on EBAY, enter in the type of printer you want, then see how much ink refills are selling for. Canons are usually pretty good because the non-OEM cartridges can be purchased as cheaply as 95 cents for a black or color ink tank. However, if all you can find is OEM inks, then you better plan on paying maybe 7-10 times more for your ink. So the ink decision turns on 1. what type of printing do I want to do and 2. can I get non-OEM cartridges at a reasonable price. I usually purchase cartridges in sets of maybe 5-10 refills, meaning 50 cartridges at a time since it takes 5 tanks to make a complete set. Hopefully this is helpful in making your decision. Also realize that if the print head fails on a Canon, the printer is essentially worthless because Canon charges as much for a print head as they do for the entire printer. Again, check EBAY or equivalent to see if you can purchase replacement print heads at a reasonable cost. If you can't, then there is a pretty fair chance that the ink print head will fail, and when it does, your printer is shot and worthless to you. I run about 8 printers in my business, so I have had to learn how to watch this stuff carefully to help control what otherwise would be very high costs in producing documents. Hope this is helpful to you!
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I'm sorry I can't answer the question about ink use yet....I've only had this printer a short while--a little over a month. What I do like about this model and my i860 Pixma (which unfortunately bit the dust) is the fact you can purchase separate color cartridges.
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I purchased it in June and so far I changed the main black ink once about 2 to three weeks ago
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It goes through ink fairly quickly, especially for photos. Prints black and white documents longer. It does an excellent job
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I've never measured it, but you do get a good number of copies. All printers like this are expensive as to the ink, but I've consistently found Canon to be the most reliable, long lasting, and best printers.
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This is a black and white (B&W;) printer that I have it set up as a single function printer. I use it for routine and high volume B & W printing, no copying or scanning jobs. I have another HR Color all-in that I use for less routine scanning/copying/color printing. I do not have need for high volume scanning/copying/color printing on a daily/weekly basis. Hope this helps.
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Yes, you can use this to print plain text in black and white, but it is slow and uses expensive pigment inks. I use both a B&W; laser and an inexpensive dye-based ink jet on my home network for general printing. The Pro-10 is really a photo printer for pros and serious amateurs. I use it exclusively for photos.
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I agree, the ink goes fast. not a great printer ink-wise for a student needing to print. going through an ink carttridge per week, black, and it will not let you print in other colors just to get the darn report printed, you have to replace the empty catridge for the printer to work. my other printers i never had a problem. mine is going back!
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Nope it's just color printer. Very good color, but black and white photos are a bit dark. That said I haven't found a better one.
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I have owned two of these printers: Epson 1400: one for three years and one for one. Why two - well here's the story. I did not have good results with the EPSON ink and printer. I tried different ICC profiles, I fiddled with photoshop and it became a problem. I shoot a lot of B/W infrared photos digitally - and I like the B/W look. But I'd print them out and sometimes they'd have a green tinge and then a purplish ting. Sometimes they'd be perfect. I long ago with this printer gave up on EPSON ink, cartridge by cartridge it was very expensive. So I got a bulk feed Lyson system - which works great. Still with the six colors (only one black). Still with the B/W print issues though. So I looked on the net, carefully and bought a B/W bulk system with six B/W inks. The link is here. https://carts.mercurycart.com/usa/files/index.html?action=add&code=QBT14004 NOW the printer produces wonderful prints to my eye. I use the ICC profiles and carefully use Photoshop because there are traps with in the printing menus - you need to let Photoshop do the color adjustment for instance (not the printer) and learn how to alter the ICC profiles correctly (I did this wrong for a while). Alas it took time and reading - but with my now six shades of B/W ink - this printer is fantastic for printing black. Seriously less expensive than the new B/W printers too. (I'd count myself as a serious amateur only here perhaps a pro would have a different view.)
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No it can not do automatic two-sided printing (duplex printing). If you lower the print quality then it becomes fast. If you max out the quality then it can become dead slow (like many other printers out there I would say that this is normal)... So it's neither fast nor slow. It's hard to give an example to the print quality and the corresponding speed here. Try to find some video reviews to see some examples or take a look at the PPM (page per minute) numbers that could be found over the internet (manufacturer page, review pages, etc.).
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I have printed ONLY on plain paper - not on photo paper - and "blacks" often print as faded, or downright grey. I would not recommend this for your desired use. (At least, not on plain paper!)
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It is perfect for black &white; printing. And if you do decide you want color. ..Does a great job. The printer does a few extras., but I think you like them. For instance: it is an e printer (wireless) which is really cool. The cost is reasonable, the size fits nicely on my desk and I love mine. Simple to operate. I have not printed any photos but it should do well with that too. I very much recommend this printer.
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I use it to print documents. This is not a good printer for photos. The ink saturates too much and the resolution is pretty bad.
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I don't think you can get it to print unless both cartridges have ink. I keep extra black & color cartridges on hand that way, I can still print. I print more invoices than anything else so I go through more black ink. Sorry I can't give you more help.
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Hi L,I have never used it to print photos yet. But, from what I can tell, the color printing from websites is good! Black/white documents don't seem to be as clear as my old canon, but , honestly, have not used it very much since i bought it... sorry can't be much more help, but, let me know what you think?Chris
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No problem what so ever. We print intermittently. The X576 ink system is superior and faster than color laser printers. It uses four vibrant inkjet cartridges.
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I don't have an actual rate per second for you I apologize. However it's not super fast if you're looking for a high output color printer in large amounts. Especially if you print duplex, it literally feeds the paper back in itself then prints the other side.
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For my uses it printed quickly. If a person only wants to print documents at a high rate of speed, there are other kinds of printers out there that are built to do so. Compared to my other printers in the past, this one is average.
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It seems to work well on all I have tried to print thus far. I use other printers for printing my professional work for clients. I use a Canon iPF 6100 for large prints. This uses archival inks in tanks--expensive but last longer than Epson inks!
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It scans fairly quickly but I'm not sure how to put that into context. I don't ever find myself waiting on it like I did with my old scanners. I'd say it takes 2~3 seconds for a full page but I haven't actually timed it - may be faster than that. You can print double sided automatically [duplex printing is supported].