Canon i350

Overall I have been well satisfied with this little gem. Not the quickest but print quality is good and it works well on very cheap compatible cartridges (I get mine from Phoenix). I have an expensive HP printer also but the quality is no better and it costs me more for two compatible ink cartridges than it cost me for the Canon. Would not hesitate to buy another Canon.

I have had this printer for years still working well. It serves the whole family for their printing needs (4x computers). I brought this with running costs in mind as many other printers are great but have expensive ink cartridges.The print quality is good and I have printed some lovely high gloss A4 photos with it. A good little work horse.

Looks cool but would never buy it again it was a mistake me buying I wasted all my money on it and was absolutely appalling. Dont recommend Canon Printers.

Great printer for the cost, good points definitely outweigh the bad!

Great

It's looks more like a toaster a than printer.

Initially all was well. The Canon i350 printer was cheap and quickly setup, and it printed quickly in the lowest resolution mode. The photos were good too.

However, after using non-Canon cartridges it all went wrong, and quality deteriorated. Reverting back to genuine Cartridges had no effect, and colours continued to be way out. I tried cleaning everything I could get at with a mild solvent, but with little success.

It was out of warranty (probably now void anyway), and I have been unable to find any manual or online help to resolve the issue. It's now junk.

The Canon i350 is a budget printer that resembles a loaf of bread. Although on the slow side, it is very hard to find fault, considering its modest price tag, print quality and user-friendly features.

Text prints out is exceptional--very sharp and laser-like in quality. The i350 uses Canon's versatile BC 24 black and color cartridges, which are readily available virtually everywhere in both proprietary and generic replacement units. A black ink tank can be found at Walmart and Target for just over $6, and each tank will yield roughly 700 pages of plain text, making the average cost per page in the neighborhood of 2 cents-about as cheap as it gets. It gets even cheaper in draft mode, and greatly accelerates print speed-which is pretty fast even in normal mode.

Color is much more pricey, with replacement cartridges running between $17 and $20 each, and yielding only 170 pages or so. Using generics will bring the cost down from roughly 12 cents per page using genuine Canon. Print speed is agonizingly slow, however.

A plus for those bold enough to refill is that there is no "lockout chip" embedded on either black or color cartridges to prevent refilling, but (as with most Canon cartridges), you must pare off the cartridge top with an exacto knife or other such device in order to do so.

As with text, color and photo printing quality is exceptional, especially considering the price of the i350, and the user interface is very easy to follow. You can adjust individual color density to fine-tune color prints and photos, an unexpected perk at this price.

For less than $60 retail, the i350 is hard to beat, although color printing won't win any speed contests.