End of Month Deal at the Egg
Still some of the best printers out there with really excellent photo printing. Best current price hands down at $56.00 ($100. MSRP) with $2.99 standard ship! Deal ends Sunday, Feb. 28. Probably while stock lasts - but not sure on that. Not as good a deal as it was on Presidents' day weekend, but still very good.
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Canon Pixma iP4700, general purpose printer now costs way less than the retail price (~$63.00 + tx) or even the Newegg price of the set of Canon brand ink tanks that come with it (5 tanks total) alone. Has 4 colors (black and CMY dye based for photos and graphics plus a pigmented black tank for text. These Canons routinely beat most 6 tank (more photo oriented units) in photo print quality. I have bought clone tanks for my Canon printers in the past from SwiftInk.com (check the Hot Deals section and/or Heatware.com for their occasional specials) and they have these new tanks with (non-resettable) chips at a significant savings.
Before buying my current HP (office jet Pro K5400), I just about only bought Canon. I went with HP because they do support Linux directly, but the printer's other limitations really tick me off. Still real paper feed issues and very limited duplex capability relative to the Canons.
The few things I don't like about the Canon printers are that they don't directly support Linux printing (drivers are available for trial and/or purchase from TurboPrint) and that the newer models are very light and flimsy compared to older similar models. They also cut the volume of ink in the new series of tanks. I mean they do support the Mac OSes, so most of the driver work is already done. Almost intolerable - if it wasn't for Canon's superior paper handling, I'd be looking elsewhere for my new printer...
In any case, it's a smokin' deal. Of course, they may have a replacement model in the pipeline at least it's not already up over on the Canon site yet.
Enjoy.
.bh.
PS: I didn't see the iP4700 on ChiefValue (aka Newegg East), so shipping to me (usually overnight out of CV) may be slower than it would be if they had stock. May have them in the Tennessee warehouse, so shouldn't take much longer. .bh.
PPS: Well, mine did ship from NJ and it's already at the UPS depot near Albany (too bad UPS doesn't do routine deliveries on Sat. - I'll have to wait 'til Mon.), so I guess you can't trust the CV site to let you know what is actually there. Under Canon, CV has listings for models that have been discontinued for years (at least they are listed as OOS) but not what they actually have. .bh.
Still some of the best printers out there with really excellent photo printing. Best current price hands down at $56.00 ($100. MSRP) with $2.99 standard ship! Deal ends Sunday, Feb. 28. Probably while stock lasts - but not sure on that. Not as good a deal as it was on Presidents' day weekend, but still very good.
This
Canon Pixma iP4700, general purpose printer now costs way less than the retail price (~$63.00 + tx) or even the Newegg price of the set of Canon brand ink tanks that come with it (5 tanks total) alone. Has 4 colors (black and CMY dye based for photos and graphics plus a pigmented black tank for text. These Canons routinely beat most 6 tank (more photo oriented units) in photo print quality. I have bought clone tanks for my Canon printers in the past from SwiftInk.com (check the Hot Deals section and/or Heatware.com for their occasional specials) and they have these new tanks with (non-resettable) chips at a significant savings.
Before buying my current HP (office jet Pro K5400), I just about only bought Canon. I went with HP because they do support Linux directly, but the printer's other limitations really tick me off. Still real paper feed issues and very limited duplex capability relative to the Canons.
The few things I don't like about the Canon printers are that they don't directly support Linux printing (drivers are available for trial and/or purchase from TurboPrint) and that the newer models are very light and flimsy compared to older similar models. They also cut the volume of ink in the new series of tanks. I mean they do support the Mac OSes, so most of the driver work is already done. Almost intolerable - if it wasn't for Canon's superior paper handling, I'd be looking elsewhere for my new printer...
In any case, it's a smokin' deal. Of course, they may have a replacement model in the pipeline at least it's not already up over on the Canon site yet.
Enjoy.
.bh.
PS: I didn't see the iP4700 on ChiefValue (aka Newegg East), so shipping to me (usually overnight out of CV) may be slower than it would be if they had stock. May have them in the Tennessee warehouse, so shouldn't take much longer. .bh.
PPS: Well, mine did ship from NJ and it's already at the UPS depot near Albany (too bad UPS doesn't do routine deliveries on Sat. - I'll have to wait 'til Mon.), so I guess you can't trust the CV site to let you know what is actually there. Under Canon, CV has listings for models that have been discontinued for years (at least they are listed as OOS) but not what they actually have. .bh.
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