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Canon i70 Color Bubble Jet Printer Review from Esther Schindler. Forget the feature list. This printer really IS portable., My husband was going to a two-week writer’s workshop, and needed a printer to bring along. We bought a Canon i70 bubble jet printer, even though it cost considerably more than most low-end printers. We haven’t regretted the purchase for a moment.

The printer has two strong marks in its favor:

* It weighs only 7 pounds. It’s also about the size of a hardback novel, and slid right into his iBook-and-computer backpack. (Other people had to ship a box, complete with styrofoam and packing tape.)

* The ink cartridges cost $11 each. (Amazon’s likely to cut the dollar amount, so I’ll also point out this costs less than two fast-food dinners.)

At the relatively low ink price, we assumed that the printer would go through ink faster than I can eat a box of Lindt chocolate truffles. So we made sure to get a second cartridge before he left. To his surprise, a single ink cartridge lasted the entire two weeks — even though he went through an entire ream of paper. (Not single-spaced with lots of fonts, and no color to speak of, but that’s still pretty impressive.)

Note, however, that the i70 doesn’t hold a lot of sheets at a time. That wasn’t a criteria for the traveling printer (and we have a color laser at home, so it doesn’t get much use off-the-road), but it might matter to you.

To be honest, we haven’t done any real color printing on it yet, other than to test that it worked. So I can’t speak to that. However, it’s certainly fast.

Bottom line: if you need a truly portable printer, I don’t think you’ll do better than this. While plenty of other inkjets are light enough that, yeah, if you had to bring it along you COULD, the Canon i70 is easy enough to grab and stuff in your luggage. You’ll take it along without a second thought.

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