Comparative test: Canon Pixma iP100 vs. HP Officejet H470

von Florian Heise

übersetzt von Ulrich Junker

If you want to print out contracts and other documents at your customer´s residence, a mobile printer is a must. The two on the market are made by Canon and HP. Our lab takes a closer look at them.

Erschienen am 25. August 2010 bei Druckerchannel.de, 14 Seite(n)

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Ink cartridges

The Canon Pixma iP100 has a permanent print head, so the only consumables are two ink cartridges: PGI-35 and CLI-36. Both have a chip and an LED, same as the bigger printers (look here: Comparative Test: Eleven multifunction printers).

Canon ink cartridges: Black PGI-35 and color CLI-36. Both cartridges with chip and LED.

HP´s Officejet 470 comes with two types of cartridges; Low (Black Nr. 337 and Color Nr. 343) and high capacity (Black Nr. 338 and Color Nr. 344). The ones with low capacity are in the package you buy with the printer ([mark {[fett LU}]]).

HP ink cartridges: Black Nr. 337 or 338, Color Nr. 343 or 344. The print heads are part of the cartridges.

When printing the B/W ISO-document with the Canon, it´s PGI-35 cartridge is empty after 191 pages. HP´s cartridge Nr. 338 has a yield of 500 pages. The test document has a rather marginal coverage with black, be aware of that when printing contracts or documents in your customers residence.

Yield results of our tests can be found on the next page.

HP´s mobile can be tooled up with a photo ink or grey cartridge for better color and greyscale photos, actually nonessential for a mobile business printer.

Only with HP´s mobile: Exchangeable waste ink tank

Good solution: If the module is full, it can be exchanged.

Printers need cleaning cycles of their cartridges to generate good prints. Wiper blades free the nozzles of leftover ink, in addition to that the nozzles are rinsed by ink. This ink has to go somewhere. It trickles to the bottom of the printer, where diaper-like wads absorb it.

Eventually the wads are full. The Canon stops printing, and your mobile printer has to see a service person for a fee. HP handles this easier for the customer: At the bottom of it´s Officejet H470 is a small box, which absorbs ink and can be easily exchanged.

It is called "Assembly K Spitton", and costs about 15 Euros.

Convenient: At the bottom is a slot for your business cards. So if you forget your printer after visiting a customer, he might call you.