Jason Dunn
04-23-2005, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=1320' target='_blank'>http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=1320</a><br /><br /></div><i>"At first glance Canon’s Pixma iP 8500 looks suspiciously like the iP 5000, which we reviewed back in December 2004. So what extras does the Pixma iP 8500 have over its stable mate, which justify the extra £100? There’s just one; a unique eight-colour print system. This involves a wide, lifetime print head and eight ink tanks, adding photo magenta, photo cyan, red and green to the standard cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK). The print heads use Canon's Full-photolithographic Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) technology and deliver two picolitre drops at a very fine resolution of 2,400 by 4,800dpi. This is ideal for photographic reproduction, but could slow day-to-day plain paper prints."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/canon-ip8500.jpg" /> <br /><br />I'm a sucker for Canon printers because I've had such fantastic prints from my i950, so this review really got my blood boiling (I know, I'm <i>such</i> a geek!). It's capable of doing a 4 x 6 print in 23, which is simply awesome - my i950 does a 4 x 6 in about 45 seconds, so this is a big improvement when you're pounding out a lot of prints. If only it did larger format prints...maybe that's still coming, because the i9900 needs a Pixma replacement. Here's hoping! :D