Canon PIXMA iP1500 Photo Printer

I got this printer as part of a bundle with a new computer. I was using an Epson at the time and the cost of ink cartridges was driving me up the wall! One day, the Epson died a terrible death and I pulled the Canon Pixma iP500 out of the closet, plugged it in, the computer recognized it immediately and its been printing happily ever since. This is a very decent printer for around $50.00. Ive not printed any photos with it. But for plain paper printing of documents, it works just fine in a home office or for a student. And others here have printed photos and say they look great. So the long and short of it is if you just need a basic printer that will print out fine looking plain paper documents and apparently does a decent job of photos too, consider the Canon Pixma iP1500.

This Pixma 1500 is the worst piece of junk there is. The error messages come one after the other for paper jams that are not there, carriages that will not move, ink waste containers that are not full, etc. The printer wont print color and black and white at the same time. Back to the drawing board!

The printer was actually free after rebate with a desktop PC from Frys. I gave it 4 stars because while its great for the average Joe to print photos from the Canon Easy-Photoprint application, Im having a lot of issues getting it to print from any other application, i.e. Adobe Photoshop 7. Granted, Ive only used the drivers from the included cd, and havent spent a huge amount of time troubleshooting, but it ought to work out of the box. I also have a hard time with getting it to grab the paper after I load it. This may be an isolated problem, as Ive seen no other reviewer mention it. Regardless, its been quite handy to print last minute pictures for scrapbooking (when printing in bulk I use Snapfish). The pictures have been bright, clear, and scrapbook quality. For free, I really cant complain.

This is a great printer at any price. The print quality is good and you can even print photos if you want. The ink cartridges are inexpensive, especially if you go with remanufactured, and overall, the printer is a great value. The only bad part is that the printer does not have an output tray, but dont let that stop you from buying this printer because it is truly a great value.

A local computer store was doing demos, took pic of my baby w canon A95 @ 3mp used the IP1500 and canon 4 x 6 glossy WOW! I checked out the price on Amazon Under $50, 50pcs of glossy 4x6 was under $8. The BCI-24 black is ~$8 and BCI-24 color ~$17. I have even tried some of the 3rd party knock-off inks (real cheap)and they look just as good. I can not find a flaw with this machine. I figured a ~$50 printer would have $30-$40 ink cartridges (Dell) but I have seen the BCI-24s everywhere and Canon paper is great quality and very reasonably priced. I am seriouly questioning ever visiting a photo lab again. If it were not for the demo I would have wrote this off as a cheap printer that produced poor quality prints. I think most all the reviews come to the same conclusion. I have extremely happy with the 4x6, 5x7 and 8x11.5 prints. I would not spend the time to write a review unless I really like or dislike a product, and my choice is obvious.

As a professional graphic artist with over 20 years in the industry, I have seen lots of products/suppliers come and go. Like Quark before it Epson decided to abandon its core user base of professional graphic arts customers for the promise of a windfall of profit by catering only to Win-Tel users. They now are a commodity player with an expensive, balky, cumbersome line of equipment. In steps Canon, god love em. Great Cameras, great printers, Mac support for days... Now this printer is my home unit and I could not be more pleased with its performance. Two main features attracted me: 1. The ink it uses is BC-24, available, been around for YEARS, and cheap! (about $17 for color and $8 for the color cart). 2. border-less printing on generic 4x6 glossy snaps from Office Depot (100 pieces for $12) that look great. This printer is fast, quiet, and works flawlessly with iPhoto as well as any of the typical Pro apps a Graphic Designer might use.

The ink is dirt cheap. I was surprised at how many pages it can print before the ink tanks need replacement. My kids just print and print. Compact size for small desk. The photo print quality is great as well. I have used it over my epson just for the fact the epson ink is over $30 per tank. Mind you it has no paper tray, it is noisy and slow. Buy without hesitation.

Good printer. Good price for ink and last long. All in all another good canon printer

It arrived with black ink all over it and after replacing the cartrdiges it would not install but kept saying a cartridge was not installed correctly and when I would check all was as should be. I am donating to a charity for someone else to try to get to work.

Canon Pixma iP1500 is a great printer with very good design and features. First of all, the good thing about it is the price. For under $50 you get a nice printer that can give you photo quality and the ink is include. Just go grab yourself a cheap USB 2.0 printer cable from place like Walmart and you have gotten yourself a great economical home printing solution. One of the best thing about this printer is the actual design on the hardware. The paper loading tray of this printer can be folded down to double the use as a dust cover to cover up the place where the paper is inserted. It is a great feature to prolong the lifespan of the printer. For people like me that doesnt print a lot (a few times a month) it helps very much to have the dust guard. In many of my previous printers that doesnt come with a build in dust cover (not the plastic bag type), there were always dust building up at the paper inserting part and clogged up the paper roller and even the ink-head, which made all the print outs have lines across them. Thumb-ups to the designer in Canon who designed this features. The way its paper tray folded up also made this printer very space saving. In many of my older printers, I always have to lea ve room for the non-removable or unfoldable paper tray that stick out behind the printer. You dont need to worry about that with this printer. You can just put it at the corner of your desk right up against the wall. As far as print quality, it is superior for its class and price range. If you have a good sources photo, it is going to print out exactly like what it should look like on the computer screen. I would also recommend you use a high resolution source photo file to print if you want good print out quality. The higher the resolution (e.g. 1280 x 1024 dpi or 1600 x 1200 dpi), the better the print quality even the actually print out size is much smaller than what you want or what you see on your PC screen. Ink cartages for Canon has always been cheaper than most other brands. Same goes for this printer which use the BCI-24 type cartage which is the same or just slightly more expensive than the BCI-21 cartage found on most older Canon printer. Printer speed is good enough for my need and the noise it generates is perfectly acceptable. The only drawback of this printer is that it doesnt come with a seperate ink cartage and printhead container like many older Canon printer models did. Usually when I know I am not going to use the printer for quite a while (like taking a trip), I perfer to pull out the ink-head from the printer and store it away so that the ink-head will not clog up or dry out. I am not sure if Canon come up with new technology in this printer to prevent that problem or simply gotten lazy and omitted this feature. Or even worse that they simply perfer their customer to either print more, buy and use more ink to keep the ink-head functional or get new print-head from time to time. But thats just my personal conspiracy theory. I am going to find out about this issue later. I strongly recommend this printer to any casual computer user, students or even home and small business. You can never go wrong with Canon products. (HP printer always have mechanical problem and their ink cartages are expensive. The same goes for Epson and Lexmark printers even Epson have superior print quality and Lexmark printer only cost $30.) Note: If you want to get a cheap USB cable, go to Walmart. They have some really cheap USB 2.0 cables. I bought mine from there for around 8 dollars.