Presidents' Day Deal at the Egg
Still some of the best printers out there with really excellent photo printing. Best current price hands down at $50.00 ($100. MSRP) with FREE 3day shipping!
Deal ends Monday, Feb. 15. Probably while stock lasts - but not sure on that.
This
Canon Pixma iP4700, general purpose printer now costs way less than the retail price (~$63.00 + tx) or even the Newegg price of the set of Canon brand ink tanks that come with it (5 tanks total) alone. Has 4 colors CMYK dye based for photos and graphics plus a pigmented black tank for text. These Canons routinely beat most 6 tank (more photo oriented units) in photo print quality. I have bought clone tanks for my Canon printers in the past from
SwiftInk Cartridges, Printer Inkjet Cartridges, Laser Toner Supplies, Cartridges (check the Hot Deals section on the Anandtech forums and/or Heatware.com for their occasional specials) and they have these new tanks with (non-resettable) chips at a significant savings over OEM.
Before buying my current HP (office jet Pro K5400), I just about only bought Canon. I went with HP because they do support Linux directly, but the printer's other limitations really tick me off. Still real paper feed issues and very limited duplex capability relative to the Canons.
The few things I don't like about the Canon printers are that they still don't directly support Linux printing (drivers are available for trial and/or purchase from TurboPrint) and that the newer models are very light and flimsy compared to older similar models. They also cut the volume of ink in the new series of tanks. I mean Canon does support the Mac OSes, so most of the driver work is already done for Linux. Almost intolerable - if it wasn't for Canon's superior paper handling and flexibility, I'd be looking elsewhere for a new printer...
In any case, it's a smokin' deal. Of course, they may have a replacement model in the pipeline (or plan to discontinue it as single-function printers aren't very popular any more) at least it's not already up over on the
Canon site yet.
Enjoy.
.bh.
PS: I didn't see the iP4700 on ChiefValue (aka Newegg East), so shipping to me (usually overnight out of CV) may be slower than it would be if they had stock. The Egg may have them in their Tennessee warehouse, so shouldn't take much longer. .bh.
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