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Canon has announced two new simple-to-use printers, the PIXMA iP4600 and PIXMA iP3600. Both printers, aside from boasting of easy-to-use software also feature individual ink tanks and fast print speeds that are capable of delivering high-quality photo prints and documents. They are both bundled with ChromaLife100+ ink set and Easy-PhotoPrint EX software. The photo editing software comes with Canon’s Auto Photo Fix for a quick way to make photos look better when printed. The iP4600 is capable of printing a 4x6 inch lab quality and borderless photos in 20 seconds while the iP3600 can do the same in 41 seconds.

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Canon has added two new PIXMA models to its line-up of photo all-in-one printers and these are the MP480 and MP190. Utilizing Canon’s two-cartridge, four-color Full-photolitography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering, both printers yield lab-quality photo prints of up to 4800x1200 dpi color resolution which according to Canon would last for up to 300 years when stored in archival-quality photo album. Here’s a quick rundown of the two printers’ individual specs and features.

The PIXMA MP480 features a 1.8-inch TFT color LCD display with navigation panel and features Auto Photo Fix and Auto Scan Mode. Auto Photo Fix can detect whether the photo being printed is a portrait or scenery, automatically corrects red eye, facial tones, brightness, contrast and color saturation. In addition, the MP480 also features Auto Scan Mode which automatically detects whether the document being scanned is a photo, business card, magazine or newspaper type. It will then automatically crops the document and saves it in PDF or JPEG format. The MP480 gives a printing speed of up to 20 pages-per-minute (ppm) for black prints and 16 ppm for color prints. It delivers 4x6 inch borderless lab-quality prints in 45-seconds and comes with a Bluetooth wireless connectivity feature.

And the other new printer introduced by Canon is the PIXMA MP190 featuring a maximum 4800x1200 dpi color resolution, 19 ppm black and 15 ppm color printing speed. It can also deliver 4x6 inch borderless photo quality prints in 70 seconds and also features an Advanced Z-Lid expansion top for scanning books or small 3-D objects.

Both the PIXMA MP480 and MP190 are available now for $99.99 and $69.99 respectively.

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Canon has not been that active with its printer product line lately. Either users find that Canon’s printers got nothing much to offer, or they just don’t find the need for photo printers anymore. Anyway, Canon takes on the photo printer market anew with the release of its latest PIXMA iP100 photo printer.

Priced at $249, the Canon PIXMA iP100 is a compact mobile printer that lets users print borderless color photos from practically anywhere that they want to. The iP100’s patented print head technology and 5-color ink system allows for the creation of photos up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi resolution. This printer also promises fast printing speed that it is said to be capable of printing a 4 x 6-inch photo in color lab quality in just 50 seconds.

Other notable features of the iP100 are; auto-image fix, irDa compatibility, optional BU-30 Bluetooth interface, and standard PictBridge interface. The iP100 is also equipped with Inkjet Nozzle Engineering printheads with 1,856 precision nozzles. In other words, the printer should be capable of producing great quality photo prints.

If you’re on the look out for a nifty photo inkjet printer, you may want to check the iP100, but if you are like me who is so used to viewing my photos in digital format instead of the printed ones, you may want to pass off on this one.

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