Though designed specifically as a photo printer, the Pixma iP6600D also is a good choice if you are purchasing an all-purpose printer for text and graphics. There are 6 ink tanks, preserving ink of each color, and changing the ink is simple. The printer delivers an exceptional resolution of up to 9600 x 2400 dpi, for detailed and clear prints. However, when function for text and graphics, you may find the performance is quite poor. But when it comes to photos, the Canon Pixma iP6600D Photo Printer flashes, with exceptional speed, high-quality print, and an array of features specifically designed to make photos easy to print.
One thing that I really like about the Canon iP6600D is that it offers an extremely well-designed control panels in the front of its body. It has a 3.5-inch color LCD screen for previewing photos. The combination of buttons and menu controls allows users to print photos easily without a PC and still have options to edit photos. Users can adjust the brightness and contrast, optimize the photos, correct for red-eye and crop photos.
As with most of Canon ink jets, the Pixma iP6600D offers two paper trays, one tray in the rear of the printer and the second tray in the front bottom. Whenever you want to use the Canon iP6600D as an all-purpose printer, just load standard paper in one tray and photo paper in the other. You can switch back and forth between standard printing and photos without having to change paper every time.
When it comes to photo printing, you have several options to print photos with the Canon Pixma iP6600D Photo Printer. The first option is to print photos directly from a PictBridge digital camera. The iP6600D has a PictBridge connector on the front for printing directly from cameras.
The second option is to use a media stick and put it right to the printer. The Pixma iP6600D is compatible with a number of memory cards such as compact Flash (CF)card, SD card, memory stick or memory stick pro, multimedia card, and the SmartMedia card.
Lastly, if you’re connecting to a PC or laptop, you can then connect the USB cable and run the automated setup program.