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Canon i905D BubbleJet Printer

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Canon i905D BubbleJet Printer can print photos directly from digital camera’s flash memory cards and even directly on CD-R and DVD-R media. It supports the PictBridge standard, which allows you to connect the complying digital cameras to it and print photos directly without using a PC. The printer comes with a color LCD display that lets you perform this function independently. You can also perform image adjustment functions directly from the printer. For instance, there’s a button to trim the photograph with which you can print a specific part of the image displayed on the LCD. 

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It has a flash memory card reader slot, which supports CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, SD and Multimedia cards. To use any other memory card you’ll need a compatible adapter. With the flash memory card reader you can print photos directly from the memory card and also use it as an ordinary read/write drive. So you can save data directly to flash memory cards using the drive, but a memory card utility has to be installed on the PC for this. However, you can’t use the drive for both the functions simultaneously. If you want to print from a memory card, then the drive must be configured as read only, and if you want to transfer data to/from it, then you must configure it in read/write mode.

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Price : Rs 24,995 (One-year warranty)
Cartridges : Rs 545 each (black, cyan, yellow, magenta, photo cyan, and photo magenta)
Key Specs :  Direct printing from digital cameras, print on

CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, print from memory cards, and use printer as memory card drive
Contact : Canon India, Delhi.
Tel : 26806572. 
E-mail : Rajeev.Singh@canon.co.in  

The printer comes with a CD-R tray and feeder units that lets you print on CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. To use this feature, you must have printable media, which is different from the ordinary media, as its surface is specially processed to support inkjet printers. It’s a USB printer, but you’ll have to buy the interface cable separately as it doesn’t ship with the printer. 

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The printer uses six ink cartridges, which include four regular (CMYK) and two photo.

Coming to performance, the printer has four printing modes - high, standard, draft and custom. Under the custom mode, there are five different settings to print: fast, draft, standard, high and fine modes. Interestingly, the printer’s manual gives a rated print speed of 8 ppm for its custom ‘fast’ mode. Plus, it gives a rated speed of 3.7 ppm for standard mode for monochrome text printing. The speed for color printing is 7 ppm for draft mode and 2.6 ppm for standard mode. Though its smallest readable font was 2 point, it was a little jagged. In multi-page text printing in draft mode, it took 18 secs to do the first page and 16 secs to churn out subsequent pages. It took 43 secs to print a document with a small color image in standard mode and 19 secs in draft mode. Lineart and curves printing was smooth without any jaggedness. A full-page monochrome graphic took only 1min and 15 secs in standard mode. And a full-page color image on plain paper took just a little longer at 1 min and 42 secs in standard mode and 2 mins and 56 secs in best mode. On photo glossy paper the same took 3 mins in standard mode and 4 mins in best mode. The print quality was found to be very good though the speed was little slow.

Sukhsagar Prajapati

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