With a recommended retail price, it's easy to toss aside this unit as an el cheapo ink box that's sure to
churn out low-quality prints with speeds as slow as molasses. But if
you're the type who glares at specifications, you'll be quick to spot a
few interesting tidbits.
First off, Canon's powerful marketing machine will attempt to thrust down your throats a new four-letter term, FINE. This is short for the company's proprietary full-photolithography inkjet nozzle engineering technology. What this mouthful of jargon basically means is that the Japanese vendor has been able to bestow this inkjet with more nozzles than most of its competitors.
Still, from the information we've received, the PixMa iP1000 contains 1,088 nozzles, a far cry from the maximum 6,144 nozzles found on Canon's 8-ink beast.
Strangely, the new printhead technology comes with increased ink droplet volumes. While the older but popular i470D sported 2-picoliter droplet sizes, the newfangled iP1000 features a volume of 5 picoliters.With regard to design, the PixMa 1000 does not have the radical makeover that the rest of the soon-to-be-released PixMa range have. Instead, this budget inkjet comes in the all-too-familiar boxy XNU chassis. This time, though, it's clad in darker black-and-gray hues -- at least it won't get so dirty quickly.
The iP1000 doesn't sport the Advanced Media Handling (AMH) abilities of the more expensive PIXMA inkjets (duplexing, CD/DVD media printing, etc).
Like the rest of its better endowed cousins, this PIXMA is similarly easy to install and configure. However, you do get the budget variant of Canon's setup process -- there's no automatic printhead alignment even though the unit reminds you to do it.
Download Driver of this printer.
First off, Canon's powerful marketing machine will attempt to thrust down your throats a new four-letter term, FINE. This is short for the company's proprietary full-photolithography inkjet nozzle engineering technology. What this mouthful of jargon basically means is that the Japanese vendor has been able to bestow this inkjet with more nozzles than most of its competitors.
Still, from the information we've received, the PixMa iP1000 contains 1,088 nozzles, a far cry from the maximum 6,144 nozzles found on Canon's 8-ink beast.
Strangely, the new printhead technology comes with increased ink droplet volumes. While the older but popular i470D sported 2-picoliter droplet sizes, the newfangled iP1000 features a volume of 5 picoliters.With regard to design, the PixMa 1000 does not have the radical makeover that the rest of the soon-to-be-released PixMa range have. Instead, this budget inkjet comes in the all-too-familiar boxy XNU chassis. This time, though, it's clad in darker black-and-gray hues -- at least it won't get so dirty quickly.
The iP1000 doesn't sport the Advanced Media Handling (AMH) abilities of the more expensive PIXMA inkjets (duplexing, CD/DVD media printing, etc).
Like the rest of its better endowed cousins, this PIXMA is similarly easy to install and configure. However, you do get the budget variant of Canon's setup process -- there's no automatic printhead alignment even though the unit reminds you to do it.
Download Driver of this printer.
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