Canon Pixma iP2600 Reviews: Canon Photos Colour Inkjet Printer

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Score: 8.4/10

132 Real Customer Reviews - In Summary

This printer is a good all rounder. “Picture quality is fantastic and when running its nice and quiet” Scoobydi, Leeds View all 132 real customer reviews

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132 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
93% of people recommend it.

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Compatibility8.7
Print quality8.3
Speed7.6
Value for money (at time of purchase)8.8
Overall rating8.4
Occasional home user (9)
Frequent home user (8)
Business user (2)
Other (113)
 

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Score 10.0/10

Scoobydi, Leeds , “Iwant value for money”

+ picture quality is fantastic and when running its nice and quiet

- Its just a shame that the ink cartridges are so expensive.

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60 of 62 people found this review helpful

purchased 15 Nov 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “chartered engineer”

+ will not print unless the front is open

- heavy ink usage

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35 of 36 people found this review helpful

purchased 30 Oct 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It is easy to use, compact and attractive design, functions well, produces good quality print.

- Cartridge installation is extremely fiddly.

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33 of 33 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Dec 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Very good cheap reliable printer, easy too install. Probably the best home printer i have ever used and there's been a few.

- Reviewer left no comment

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33 of 35 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Jan 2009

Score 10.0/10

Pat, Shoreham-by-Sea

+ Could not be happier with this purchase. It is the second Canon printer we have had, the first simply died of old age and long use so we were encouraged to replace with another Canon.

- Haven't encountered any.

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29 of 29 people found this review helpful

purchased 29 Jan 2009

Score 7.0/10

Nana , Leeds

+ Reviewer left no comment

- cartridges are very expensive

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25 of 25 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 Dec 2008

Score 4.0/10

Tom, Salisbury

+ Appearance

- Noisy and poor print quality

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22 of 26 people found this review helpful

purchased 22 Oct 2008

Score 8.0/10

Paul, Westbury , “Proffessional IT consultant”

+ Great quality for the price, very fast both for colour and B&W printing

- Quite big, not for the compact office, Ink refills are expensive

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16 of 16 people found this review helpful

purchased 31 Dec 2008

Score 9.0/10

Jenny , New Malden , “Jenny B”

+ Easy to set up, fast,efficient. Prints great photos as well as standard b/w A4 everyday stuff.
Small, lightweight. Definitely recommend this!

- Reviewer left no comment

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15 of 15 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 Feb 2009

Score 7.0/10

Ace, Trowbridge

+ Easy to use as normal; nice prints; quiet use i.e. not a noisy print; good selection for maintenance purposes and changing settings;

- Ink cartridges - not 'big' enough and rather expensive since I use a lot of colour;

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14 of 15 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Dec 2008

Score 9.0/10

john, Nottingham

+ Easy to use, No problems with connection, Good to look at.

- Price of ink.

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11 of 11 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 Mar 2009

Score 7.0/10

Allan, Farnham Surrey

+ Set up was easy, speed is good for a budget printer, print quality is acceptable.

- One niggle it takes a long time to prepare its self for printing

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11 of 11 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Jan 2009

Score 8.0/10

SHAUN, MANCHESTER

+ VERY CHEAP FOR THE LOW USER AND GOOD PRINT QUALITY.

- FOR MORE FREQUENT USER CAN BE EXPENSIVE AS THE INKS CAN COST A LOT.

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10 of 11 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Feb 2009

Score 8.0/10

Aileen, Cambridge

+ Great value for money, stylish, compact, fast.

- Ink ran out within a month. not very many print options, for example I couldn't print out lecture handouts to my liking, Also didn't have the option of 2 sided printing

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8 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 23 Apr 2009

Score 9.0/10

Geoff, Kings Lynn , “Basic home user.”

+ Easy to setup. Much faster than my old printer - but my previous Canon was nearly 10 years old.
Came with ink cartridges included.

- Reviewer left no comment

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8 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 05 May 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- although its the same with all new printer. no USB cable.

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8 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 29 Dec 2008

Score 8.0/10

Joe, Haddington

+ Easy set up and operation.

- None yet.

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 Dec 2008

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ So far it works as it is supposed to, so I consider it good value for money.

- Maybe a bit slow when printing colour diagrams.

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 30 Dec 2008

Score 9.0/10

Nicolas, Gillingham

+ very cheap, but good quality printing

- perhaps a bit slow but understandable for the price

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Jan 2009

Score 9.0/10

adam, London

+ Great item

- Reviewer left no comment

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8 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 06 Jan 2009

Score 8.0/10

Jill, Altrincham

+ very easy to install and very clear good value for money I think.

- Reviewer left no comment

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 29 Jan 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Excellent results every time, easy to install

- Quite loud operating noise, fairly big casing.

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7 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 Dec 2008

Score 10.0/10

Colin , Sunderland, Tyne and Wear , “networking lecturer”

+ Excellent price; excellent quality; super quiet

- none found at this point

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 30 Mar 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Speed and Quality of prints

- Price of ink cartridges

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Feb 2009

Score 8.0/10

Alexander, Edinburgh , “experimenter in photography”

+ near perfect colours,very quiet in operation

- colour cartridge not lasting for very long

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 25 Mar 2009

Score 6.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Looks nice

- 1. I keep forgetting to open the front for it to print
2. Colour not the best

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 05 Mar 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- randomly decides it is not ready.

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Jan 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Easy to set-up

- Colour ink cartridge needs to be larger bearing in mind the cost of the cartridges

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Jan 2009

Score 9.0/10

Romy, Henley-on-Thames , “normal everyday mum”

+ meets all of or needs and was good value for money

- n/a

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 30 Mar 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ easy to install easy to install no bad points yet

- Reviewer left no comment

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 19 Apr 2009

Score 8.0/10

Sue, Knebworth , “Business user” More like this »

+ good price

- price of ink

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 19 May 2009

Score 9.0/10

Julie, Chesterfield , “Do not do technical.”

+ A good all around printer, especially for the price. Easy to connect.

- None as yet!!

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4 of 5 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Nov 2008

Score 10.0/10

Denise, Pevensey

+ Speed of printing

- Have to remember to pull front panel doen

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 05 Feb 2009

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ automatic setup with vist no disc needed,also idiot proof

- ink bit pricey but arnt they all

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Mar 2009

Score 6.0/10

Dave, Croydon

+ Good print quality and only two cartridges

- Very slow, to boot up, to print and to install. Installation fights with Windows Install new hardware wizzard/gremlin and it took several attempts to work out how to do it.

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4 of 5 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Jan 2009

Score 9.0/10

Julie, Sheffield , “Glad I bought this”

+ fast, quiet, easy to load both paper and ink

- little large but worth it

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Feb 2009

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ reliable and compact printer

- could be quieter

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Jan 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Very easy to install and use.

- Reviewer left no comment

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 Feb 2009

Score 8.0/10

Caroline, Shrewsbury

+ Value for money

- speed

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 13 Feb 2009

Score 9.0/10

Margaret, Purley, Surrey

+ Easy to operate and neat to look at. Very reasonable, but I have not yet had to change the cartridges.

- The ink is inclined to smudge if I am not very careful. This could just be a teething problem.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 Apr 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- The paper feeds from the top at the back, would have preferred a paper feed from the front to save space.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 17 May 2009

Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Frequent home user” More like this »

+ Cheap printer, very easy to change cartridges

- Very expensive cartridges and goes through the ink fairly quickly. Quite bulky. Print quality not great with text

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Jun 2009

Score 8.0/10

david, poole

+ fast, good quality printout, quiet, easy to instal, excellent value for the price

- cost of cartridges

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 22 Jun 2009

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ fast print

- bit noisy caompared with my old canon

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 30 Mar 2009

Score 8.0/10

Paul, Coventry

+ Looks good, prints well and the printer control panel is excellent.

- Cost of the ink cartridges.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Sep 2009

Score 8.0/10

Bill, Ilkley , “Retired Architect”

+ Good value for money, looks good, good software.

- It remains to be seen if the product remains servicable. Print heads may not last long - then be more expensive to replace than a similar new printer.

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2 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 15 Jan 2009

Score 9.0/10

Helen, Leicester

+ Easy to install, very fast printing, pleasing to the eye (I think so anyway!) and good value for money.

- Might be a bit loud for some people but I rather like the sounds it makes when printing.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Jul 2009

Score 8.0/10

Bill, Stirling , “Occasional home user” More like this »

+ Good result both if B&W and Colour. At the price VG value. My iP3600 which is better but more expensive. Too early to check ink cost.

- Bit noisy and a bit slow

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 Aug 2009

Score 10.0/10

Marc, Ipswich

+ small and compact, ideal for desk top.

- Reviewer left no comment

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Sep 2009

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Has to wait in between pages for the ink to dry causes a delay to the printing process. Ink runs out very quickly.

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purchased 06 Oct 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Occasional home user” More like this »

+ Price, quality for the money

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 08 Oct 2009

Score 9.0/10

ann, north shields

+ Haven't used it much yet, but what I have done is good

- none

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purchased 01 Oct 2009

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Documents look nice and clear, the printer is a nice size and looks smart.

- Can take a while to print due to pausing halfway through. Will probably need to replace the black cartridge sooner than later.

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purchased 12 Oct 2009

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Good quality print

- Expensive cartridges

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purchased 12 Oct 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Business user” More like this »

+ Straight through paper path

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 24 Oct 2009

Score 10.0/10

EDWARD, GREENHITHE

+ NEAT AND GOOD LOOKING AND OPERATES EASILY.

- NO BAD POINTS FOUND UP TO THE PRESENT

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1 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 30 Jul 2009

Score 4.0/10

Sue, Bedfordshire , “Frequent home user” More like this »

+ Looks nice

- Black comes out grey, has a noise reduction but don't really notice the difference!!!

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purchased 11 Sep 2009

Score 8.0/10

Norman, Bracknell

+ Price and speed

- Flimsey construction. Slow startup

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purchased 27 Feb 2009

Score 10.0/10

dennis, bristol , “love priting”

+ fast cheep to run

- none i can find

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purchased 31 Mar 2009

Score 9.0/10

Alan, Aberystwyth , “Frequent home user” More like this »

+ All pretty good for the price.

- Takes quite a time to actualy get going.

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purchased 11 Oct 2009

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It is probably good if you have the right OS

- The printer does not work with our Windows 98 OS.

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0 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Sep 2009

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Expert reviews for Canon Pixma iP2600

PC Advisor expert review - by Robin Morris

Low-priced printers are nothing new ヨ even if the Canon Pixma iP2600's ᆪ35 price tag is pretty special.

This Canon Pixma iP2600 review continued on PC Advisor

reviewed 21 Feb 2008

Product Features

Print Technology Inkjet
Photo Printer No
Photo Printer Yes
WiFi No
LCD Display No
Ethernet No
PictBridge No
Memory Card Slot No
Built-in Scanner No
Built-In Fax No
Built-in Copier No
Maximum Paper Size A4
Print Colour Colour
Bluetooth No
Portable No
Film or Slide Scanner No
Number of Colours (incl. Black) 4
Height in mm 142
Width in mm 442
Depth in mm 253
Colour Black
Print Resolution (dpi) 4800x1200
Number of Prints per Minute in Colour 17
Number of Prints per Minute in Black & White 22
Sheet Capacity 100
Release Date 18 Mar 2008
Printers Buying Guide  

Manufacturer's Description

Superb style, quality and value

This stylish, value-for-money Photo and Document printer delivers superb photo-lab quality prints of your family and friends – as well as great web page and document printing – at an affordable price.

Photo printing

Enjoy superb photo lab quality prints with fine detail and smooth colour gradations, thanks to 2pl ink droplets and a high 4800×1200dpi* print resolution.

Print a 10×15cm borderless photo in approx. 55 seconds in Standard Mode*.

Auto Image Fix automatically enhances your photos. Also use Easy-PhotoPrint EX for photo, calendar and album printing.

ChromaLife100** delivers beautiful, long-lasting prints with longevity up to 100 years.

Document printing

Print documents at up to 22ppm in mono or 17ppm in colour. Whether homework, paperwork, weekend work or web pages, this printer handles it all.

FINE Cartridges

Advanced FINE cartridges provide precision printing and are simple to replace with one click installation. The black cartridge ensures sharp, crisp text for document printing while the colour cartridge makes graphics bold and bright.

Efficiency

The paper output tray features a sensor to prevent paper jams as, when printing begins, an alert message is displayed if the tray is closed. MyPrinter software makes your printer extra easy to use, right from the start.

Operating systems

Windows and Mac OS X compatible.

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