Entry level pixma printer

yanyewkay · 27th December 2004

just bought a canon iP1500. the cheapest one that offers the 2pl droplets. In my eagerness to try the printer, i just used the supplied photo-printing software and loaded a 3rd party glossy paper and just printed my photo...

and woah!

the print out blew me off! It's very close to photo prints. I can hardly see any 'dots' of ink! Colours were a little over saturated though.. dunno who's fault.. i din't adjust the pic. (straight out of a 20D)

good for newbies like me starting out in photo printing.

Neo · 28th December 2004

Hi Yanyewkay,

Check your paper type settings... you're not using original paper, so you might have to experiment around with "photo paper plus" or "glossy photo paper" etc. to get the best results. I dunno abt the iP1500, but the iP5000 etc has the capability to fine-tune the colour at the printing stage via slider bars in the driver.

27th December 2004	#1
yanyewkay Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Cons digger. Posts: 4,046	Entry level pixma printer just bought a canon iP1500. the cheapest one that offers the 2pl droplets. In my eagerness to try the printer, i just used the supplied photo-printing software and loaded a 3rd party glossy paper and just printed my photo... and woah! the print out blew me off! It's very close to photo prints. I can hardly see any 'dots' of ink! Colours were a little over saturated though.. dunno who's fault.. i din't adjust the pic. (straight out of a 20D) good for newbies like me starting out in photo printing. __________________ “How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.” - Adolf Hitler Last edited by yanyewkay; 28th December 2004 at 12:00 AM.

28th December 2004	#2
Neo Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 947	Hi Yanyewkay, Check your paper type settings... you're not using original paper, so you might have to experiment around with "photo paper plus" or "glossy photo paper" etc. to get the best results. I dunno abt the iP1500, but the iP5000 etc has the capability to fine-tune the colour at the printing stage via slider bars in the driver.