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TrustedReviews Awards 2008

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Published	25th Nov 2008

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1st Place: Canon PIXMA MP970

Canon really has a commanding place in the all-in-one inkjet market. Its whole range of multifunction machines provide excellent print at reasonable prices with good throughput speeds.

But there can only be one winner, so if you want an all-in-one with all the trimmings, Canon's MP970 has them in abundance. Twin paper trays, CD/DVD print, built-in duplex, seven inks for fine photo prints and a built-in transparency and negative scanner. It prints reasonably quickly - except when duplexing - and is cheap to run, a major plus for an inkjet.

Why the MP970 and not the recently released MP980? The asking price of the MP970 is below the magical £200 threshold and, more importantly, the cartridge set is a lot cheaper, giving much lower running costs. The prices of the MP980 inks will drop, but not this year.

Read the full review of the Canon PIXMA MP970.

2nd Place: Epson B-500DN

Several of the main inkjet makers are trying to move inkjet technology into the business market and the B500DN is a major step in that direction. This is a substantial machine with an ‘individual' look, but right from the start it wants to be taken seriously. It can take a whole ream of paper in its main tray and only needs new ink every 7,000 pages. While print speeds aren't as high as from equivalently-priced colour lasers, print quality is fair; excellent if you print photos. A colour page also costs under 3p, which is exceptional.

Read the full review of the Epson B-500DN.

3rd Place: Canon PIXMA iP1900

A simple inkjet printer at an entry-level price may not be the most obvious choice for an annual award, but this little machine is supremely easy-to-use and produces very reasonable quality for anybody on a budget. The PIXMA iP1900 is not the fastest inkjet printer on Earth, but it produces over seven black pages a minute and around two and a half in colour, which is still respectable. It'll turn out a good quality 15 x 10cm print in under a minute, too. As a personal inkjet for correspondence and a few photos, it's a great choice.

Read the full review of the Canon PIXMA iP1900.

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Sivart said on 1st December 2008

Just read the awards article & then looked forward to the comments.

Big disapointment to find it dominated by a fruitcake with a grudge and an old pals reunion d... more

Ardjuna said on 5th December 2008

@Sivart: yes, it would have been nice to see some more comments about the actual products, and about awards other than the arguably least important 'style' one. Still, it... more

AlexMck said on 11th December 2008

Great job Riyad. Have been following the site for a long time but only just decided to register.
Rsaeire and Singularity -- have ye any lives to lead? I should think that,... more

PaulW said on 11th January 2009

@Sivart .. I agree with you to a degree. I dont have the funds to be fortunate to be able to buy a B&W Zeppelin, and therefore look forward to reviews of such products here @ TR. No matter what Riyad (other TR staff say)says, there will also be some contention. I bought a Samsung G600 phone for Xmas .. mainly because of the brilliant review here. As it happens, i dont like it & have gone back to my Nokia 6300. I also have a Nokia E71 (which another user was raving about) & I aint too keen on that either.

So what am I trying to say? Well this .. I find the TR site just about the most "accurate" place to go to read products reviews, and generally I find the conclusions produced "weigh in" with my own needs. I bought a Canon Pixma MP610 on the strength of its review & its brilliant! I also bought a Fuji S9600 camera purely on the review here & what a blinder! Brilliant choice & a brilliant review - altho very controversial at the time! 10 / 10 for a camera that I bought for £199!!

The arguments put forward about B&W Zeppelin as an iPod docking station do produce a smile on my face. I can many years ago, someone in Hi-Fi News stating "the wider you open the windows, the more the muck flies in", and having an iPod myself, I cannot but agree with this statement .. as the audio quality of the Apple iPod is well documented to be "questionable". Poor audio in - poor audio out!

BUT .. at least TR do actually carry out reviews of products tested. Some years back (in an earlier life) I was involved heavily in the PC MIDI market & ran a well know UK PC MIDI company distributing such products as Music Quest MIDI cards, CardD DAW card & Cadenza sequencing software (Gordon .. are you reading this? You & I have had several chats in the past about some of these products.)

On one occasion I was approached by a well known MIDI Music mag (no names mentioned, but their offices were in Bath!) asking for a sample Music Quest card for "head to head" review. I had always had my suspicions about the "authenticity" of reviews carried out by this Mag, & so I sent off a card that I knew to be faulty! It simply didnt work!

We came 2nd in a head to head shoot out with other popular MIDI card! We werent asked to replace the faulty card, yet we came in 2nd place! Amazing eh?

Thanks goodness we have moved on & we have sites like TR.

Well done guys .. whilst I dont agree with all that you say, I am darned glad that you have presence on the web! Sorry for going off topic a tad!

Happy New Year!

@Sivart .. I agree with you to a degree. I dont have the funds to be fortunate to be able to buy a B&W Zeppelin, and therefore look forward to reviews of such products here @ T... more

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