No competitor can offer the same degree of localized support, sales and service as we can.
When you order online at Island Ink-Jet you are supporting the locally owned businesses and economy in your community through our profit sharing model and you in turn receive localized support from those businesses. Overall, it’s a brilliant printer for any photographer who wants to see their images in print, rather than just looking at them on screen.What truly sets us apart from other retailers and especially online stores is that our physical stores are Licensed & independently owned and operated by small business owners in your community. Sure, the G650 isn’t blindingly fast, but the quality of both mono and color photo prints is excellent. Long story short, the ink cost per 6x4-inch photo print is just 2.5c/2.2p, compared with 31.6c/23.3p for a printer like the TS8350/TS8320.
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The cost of buying the printer is only about the same as buying the cartridge-based PIXMA TS8350/TS8320 plus one full set of XXL cartridges, which have a very much lower capacity. The PIXMA G650/G620 will save you money even in the short term. Many printers that run on bottled inks claim to save you money in the long run. Print speeds are a bit pedestrian compared with high-end cartridge-based PIXMA printers but photo quality is excellent for both colour and mono images. For document printing, a single page of mono text took us 18 seconds in normal quality mode, and 30 seconds for a mixed mono text and color graphics page, both in normal quality mode. Moving up to borderless A4, the G650/G620 took two minutes exactly in our tests, in normal quality mode, and 4 minutes 42 seconds in high quality mode. For the PIXMA G650/G620, it’s 46 seconds and 1 minute 46 seconds, so basically more than twice as long. Those printers can output borderless 6x4-inch photos in 19 seconds or 43 seconds, in normal and high quality modes respectively. Print speeds are rather slower than from a printer like the Canon PIXMA TS6350/TS6320 and PIXMA TS 8350/TS8320. Color documents with mixed text and graphics are of similarly high quality. It’s not really meant to be a document printer but, despite lacking a pigment-based black ink, mono text is a rich, deep and crisp black with excellent definition. The PIXMA G650/G620 is designed as a high-volume printer, so just how many prints can you expect from a full set of bottles, as supplied with the printer? It works out to around 3,800 6x4-inch photos, or around 3,700 mono documents, or 8,000 colour documents. (Image credit: Matthew Richards/Digital Camera World) Typical of Canon PIXMA printers, the print properties dialog box is simple and effective. Starting from scratch, the printer only takes 20 minutes to set up, from opening the box to first print, and that includes the 10 minutes needed for the printer to automatically charge and align its print heads once you’ve added the ink. The whole process is quick, easy and mess-free. They’re leak-free, keyed so that each colour of ink only fits into the top of the correct ink tank, and they stop pouring automatically if the ink tank becomes full. The PIXMA has the process nailed, however, with squeeze-free bottles that simply slot into the top of each tank. There’s a danger that pouring ink from bottles into tanks could be a messy business. The aim is for a wide color space or gamut, with the bonus of enhanced mono photo printing. This PIXMA follows a different path, starting off with CMYK but adding additional grey and red inks. Think photo-friendly six-ink line-up and you’re probably thinking CMYK with additional light cyan and light magenta thrown into the mix. There are two print heads, left and right, which you insert into the printer as part of the setup procedure. Suffice it to say that ink costs per page are only about one tenth of the cost. By stark contrast, the MegaTank printer comes complete with a full set of 60ml, and a replacement set only costs around £80/$95. A full set of XXL cartridges will set you back around £121/$170, and the five that are used for photo printing only contain 11.7ml of ink each.
However, that printer comes with relatively low-capacity ‘setup cartridges’ so you’ll soon need to buy replacements. As expected, the printer costs more to buy than regular cartridge-based models and, as such, it’s about twice the price of the popular 6-ink PIXMA TS8350 (TS8320 in America). Like Canon’s previous MegaTank inkjet printers, it’s a cartridge-free machine that has relatively high-volume ink tanks, topped up by 60ml bottles of ink. Wouldn’t it be great if you could print photos without the perpetual worry of ink cartridges running out, and the expense of replacing them? That’s the idea behind the Canon PIXMA G650 (G620 in North America).