Bubble Jet Printer

The top performance A3+ printer for outstanding quality and speed
FAST The i6500 delivers up to 17 pages per minute monochrome and up to 12 pages per minute in colour, making it the fastest A3 inkjet out-of-thebox printer in monochrome. It will turn out a full-colour A4 in 100 seconds at default settings. This high speed is the result of one-pass, bi-directional printing. It also uses an independent 5-motor drive system with individual motors for line feed, carriage movement, auto sheet feeder,
The Bubble Jet i6500 is the professional wide format printer of choice for the graphics business or creative
maintenance and paper discharge.

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office. The fastest in its class, it offers outstanding quality and borderless prints up to A3+ size.
This machine prints full-bleed photos on 4 x 6, 5 x 7, A4, A3, and A3+ media. Using an optional PostScript RIP solution, graphic artists can make accurate contract quality proofs.
BEST QUALITY EVERY TIME Canons Bubble Jet Printer i6500 delivers outstanding quality on media up to A3+ coupled with remarkable speed. It uses Canons now standard advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology to ensure brilliant, high-contrast prints with the broadest colour range. By combining this technology with 5 pl permanent droplet size, it can print at resolutions of up to 4800 x 1200 dpi*. The result is greater definition, higher contrast and broader colour range. It means that graininess is reduced to a minimum even on plain paper.
Conventional/ Competitors Advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology
Traditional ink jet printing system delivers droplets of irregular placement and shape. Canon advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology improves the control process for droplet ejection, delivering consistent drops with exact form and placement.
ADVANCED IMAGING FEATURES The Bubble Jet i6500 includes the EasyPhotoPrint application with Exif Print. This makes use of camera settings to produce better, more faithful images. Advanced driver features such as Photo Noise Reduction are also included. This function eliminates noise in digital camera images to create natural-looking images. Vivid Photo allows the printer to produce colours that your monitor cannot display so you get your images with more realistic colours.
Canon Bubble Jet i6500 features
Wide format printing up to A3+ size. Up to 4800 x 1200 dpi* resolution. Advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology. Top performance up to 17 ppm mono and 12 ppm colour. Single Ink technology Fast borderless photo printing onto 4 x 6, 5 x 7, A4, A3, and A3+. Exif Print improves the quality of digital photo prints. Photo Noise Reduction, Photo Optimizer PRO, Vivid Photo and Image Optimizer driver functions.
Vivid Photo OFF Vivid Photo ON
SINGLE INK TECHNOLOGY The i6500 uses Single Ink technology with individual tanks so that when one colour runs out, you replace only that tank - you dont throw away cartridges with unused ink in other colours. The i6500 also features an ink level detection system to prevent wasted paper. The result is maximum economy and outstanding cost performance.
Network compatible using optional adapter. Optional PostScript RIP solution. USB and parallel interfaces. *Addressable
Exif Print OFF Exif Print ON Enables images to be printed out faithfully and as the photographer intended.

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Cyan Ink Tank BCI-3eC Magenta Ink Tank BCI-3eM Yellow Ink Tank BCI-3eY Black Ink Tank BCI-3eBk
The Bubble Jet i6500 has USB and parallel interfaces and is compatible with Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP and Mac OS 8.6 9.x/Mac OS X. The printer can also be shared in a network with the simple addition of an optional adapter.
Canon Bubble Jet i6500 specifications
RESOLUTION PRINT ENGINE COLOUR MANAGEMENT MONO PRINT SPEED COLOUR PRINT SPEED PHOTO PRINT SPEED Up to 4800 x 1200 dpi1 4-ink, advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology, 5pl ICM v2.0, ColorSync 2.5 or later2, Exif Print3 Up to 17 ppm (Max), 10.8 ppm (Std)4 Text & Graphics: Up to 12 ppm (Max), 4.3 ppm (Std)4 A4: Up to 0.6 ppm (Std on PR-101); 4" x 6" (10 x 15 cm): 31 seconds (Std on PR-101)4 Plain Paper, Envelopes, Bubble Jet Paper (LC-301), High Resolution Paper (HR-101), Glossy Photo Paper (GP-301), Photo Paper Pro (PR-101, PC-101S), Photo Paper Plus Glossy (PP-101), Matte Photo Paper (MP-101), Transparency (CF-102), T-shirt Transfer (TR-201) Sheet feeder: 64 to 105 g/m2 and supported Canon special media up to 270 g/m2 Sheet feeder: 100 sheets POWER SOURCE MEDIA SIZE Sheet feeder: A3+, A3, Ledger+, Ledger, B4, A4, B5, A5, Letter, Legal, Envelopes (DL size or Commercial 10), 4" x 6", 5" x 7" & custom size Photo Paper Pro (A3+, A3, A4 & 4" x 6"), Photo Paper Plus Glossy (A3, A4, 4" x 6" & 5" x 7"), Glossy Photo Paper (A3+, A3 & A4), Matte Photo Paper (A4) POWER CONSUMPTION AC 220-240V 50Hz Approx. 3W (standby), approx. 33W (printing) OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS PC with Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium, WINDOWS Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 95, Parallel or USB interface7, CD-ROM Drive. Free hard disk space for printer driver installation: 50MB for Windows 2000/XP/NT 4.0, 15MB for Windows ME/98/95. Macintosh computer with Mac OS 8.6-9.x or Mac OS X v10.2.1 or MAC later, USB interface. Free hard disk space for printer driver installation: 30MB for Mac 8.6-9.x, 100MB for Mac OS X v10.2.1 DRIVER FEATURES WINDOWS MAC PC INTERFACE & CONNECTIVITY Parallel (IEEE 1284 compatible), USB

MEDIA TYPE

Photo Optimizer PRO, Image Optimizer, Photo Noise Reduction, Vivid Photo, Illustration Effects; Photo Optimizer PRO, Photo Noise Reduction, Vivid Photo, Illustration Effects

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SOFTWARE INCLUDED WINDOWS MAC
Easy-PhotoPrint, Easy-WebPrint Easy-PhotoPrint

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OPTIONAL POSTSCRIPT RIP PowerRIP 2000 - PostScript compatible RIP and PDF generator from iProof TEMPERATURE RANGE HUMIDITY ACOUSTIC NOISE LEVELS DIMENSIONS (W X D X H) WEIGHT C 10 90% RH Approx. 39 dB (A) (best quality mode) 573 x 334 x 196 mm Approx. 7 kg
INK CARTRIDGE CONFIGURATION Single Ink technology - Four separate ink tanks (BCI-3e Bk, BCI-3e C, BCI-3e M, BCI-3e Y) BLACK INK TANK LIFE 310 pages at 5% coveragepages [printing ISO/JIS-SCID N5 image6] 390 pages at 5% coverage per ink tank6 Cyan: 460 pages, Magenta: 395 pages, Yellow: 300 pages [printing ISO/JIS-SCID N5 image6]

COLOUR INK TANK(S) LIFE

RESOLUTION 1 Ink droplets can be placed with a minimum pitch of 1/4800 inch COLOUR MANAGEMENT 2 Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x 3 Via software: Easy-PhotoPrint PRINT SPEED 4 May vary with computer system specifications and content of document printed. CARTRIDGE LIFE 5 All figures are approximate and quoted for A4 media. For reference only. Black calculation based on printing 1500 characters normal text in Standard Mode on plain paper with Windows XP 6 All figures are approximate and quoted for A4 media. Based on printing the ISO/JIS-SCID N5 pattern in Standard Mode on plain paper with Windows XP SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 7 USB operation can only be guaranteed on a PC with pre-installed Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000 (This includes Windows Me, Windows XP and Windows 2000 upgraded from pre-installed Windows 98). This product supports the majority of USB equipped PCs however, due to differences in USB implementation (on some PCs) full compatibility cannot be guaranteed.
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All Specifications subject to change without notice. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries All brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Specification CEL 1.0.2 231202
Canon Europa NV Bovenkerkerweg 59-XB Amstelveen The Netherlands Canon Inc. 30-2 Shimomaruko 3-Chome, Ohta-ku Tokyo 146-8501 Japan www.canon-europe.com English Edition 0035W706 Canon Europa N.V., 2003 (0303)