CHF209.–
Canon Pixma Ix6850
Ink, Colour
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55 reviews
Very good printer for the price. Fantastic price / performance ratio
Good A3+ printer for the moderate price. I had the predecessor, IX6550, which unfortunately gave up the ghost. I need the IX6850 for photo prints from 10x15 to 33x48. I work with cheap photo papers and compatible color cartridges. So the prints are very cheap. The quality of the prints is very good for landscape photos. It is a bit more critical with portrait photos, because the skin tones are not always exact. I process my portraits with "Portrait Professional" and afterwards the skin tones are perfect in the digital image. It looks best with original cartridges and original Canon high glossy paper. I have also had the printer calibrated (create an ICC profile). This works very well until you change a cartridge that comes from a different production batch. This even happened to me with the Epson R2800. I now do it by hand in the printer driver to make the necessary adjustments. This is quick and easy. However, it just needs a pair of printouts more than test printouts, until it is correct.
I think the printer is brilliant for the price and the print quality is excellent for my needs. I also print for other people and so far no one has complained about the quality.
I can fully recommend this printer.Pro
- Compact and lightweight
- Good quality prints
- Very cheap compatible replacement cartridges
Contra
- Black and white printouts not very good. It lacks the various gray levels color cartridges
Very good printer with superb photo quality. and not expensive for A3+.
Pro
- Quality of the photos
- Fast
- Ink cartridges of good capacity and not too expensive
Highly recommended.
Top price performance!
Good compromise
satisfactory printer. Good compromise for the price
The produced electronic waste is an imposition, the warm-up time also, foreign cartridges a must. Whether you want to buy the device is probably a matter of conscience.
This is the second ix6850 that I bought after the predecessor gave up the ghost after 2.5 years. In my opinion, this was deliberate obstruction, it looks like the device was programmed that way (cf. also corresponding, multiple comments on amazon).
I bought the printer again, because I was very satisfied with the print result (especially high-quality inkjet prints).
Annoying is the obviously reprogrammed driver: If the printer was switched off, it needs with each new switching on (even if only a few hours lay in between) approx. 2-3 minutes up to printing: It spends the time cleaning the nozzles and consuming ink. With the predecessor this was no problem, it printed immediately.
NB: The canon pixma 925, which I also own, has the same problem, but it can only be avoided by not switching it off, but leaving it on standby all the time! With the ix6850's 2.4W standby consumption, I'd like to avoid that. I guess I will try to install the driver of the predecessor.
Fortunately, there are extraordinarily cheap replacement cartridges from other manufacturers, which puts the ink consumption described above into perspective for the time being. There remains the problem that the ink cleaning certainly prematurely fills the appropriate receiving sponge for it. An all-round annoying affair, then.Pro
- Very good print
- Cheap replacement cartridges available
Contra
- Ink consumption and start-up time due to driver programming
- Lifetime obviously no more than a good two years
6 out of 55 reviews
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