The Canon Pixma iP3500 inkjet printer is ambitious, shaking a printer many features in a package cheap. If it remains below a certain way, it’s always a great value.

The Pixma iP3500 printed quickly and competently. Plain-text pages, released at a steady pace of 8.3 pages per minute (ppm), while the photo-printing speed varies between 1.6 ppm and 3.2 ppm in tests by PC World, the overall average. On plain paper, even on closely spaced fonts precise and well black, with just a little jaggedness in curvier letters. Most color images we had a printed yellow to orange cast, which made them warmer and more attractive, but also produced a little strange flesh tones. How we Our first test has more information on our tests the printer.

At rest, the Pixma iP3500 resembles a shiny, black bread box. When it is time to print a range of doors, flaps and panels reveals a versatile - if sometimes complicated - all features. As usual top-loading paper tray takes a wide range of media sizes. Both parties output tray resembles a jump Evel Knievel: Paper Slides short of the language of plastic on a small piece of empty space closer to an end piece. Nestled in the empty space is a second tray, which takes a bit of standard size (A4, letter, B5), you could, for example, load plain paper and has the tray top free for loading photo paper or labels. The small crowd of languages, plateaus and extensions can be a source of confusion - it is difficult to say where things are going or not - but the second entry is always a nice bonus. The few controls (visible when the door is open for normal operations) are dispersed, their icon and based on labels are difficult to decipher.

An impression permanent and removable ink reservoirs for each of four colors sit under the printer of the central panel. The user-friendly design clearly visible slots for shells. As the ink reservoirs on another Canon inkjets, each Pixma iP3500 reservoirs has an integrated LED lights red when the tank is inserted correctly (which seems contrary - why not green?). The Pixma iP3500 costs of ink, based on documents with a mixture of text and graphics seem reasonable: black ink costs about 3.2 cents per page, and adding cyan, magenta, yellow and bears the cost to 8.9 cents per page.

The installation includes Easy Photo Print EX-software for organizing, editing and printing photos, most of my Canon printer request to adjust the settings and troubleshooting. A complete list of on-screen manual covers both hardware and software. A menu interface solutions centralizes access to all these elements.

The Canon Pixma iP3500 hit the sweet spot between inkjet printers, offering a good number of features and performance for the price. This is one of the best low-cost printers, we saw.