Buying a printer - IPM vs PPM

Lit_Up

Hi there. My previous printer (HP Photosmart C7280) had a PPM (pages per minute) of 33 in mono draft mode. This was awesome. I'm looking for a new printer now as I gave that to my mum to replace her old dinosaur.

I'm checking out Amazon and seen that the Canon Pixma MP640 has many favourable reviews. However, its print speed is listed as 9.2 IPM (inches per minute). How does this compare to PPM?

Why don't manufacturers use PPM across the board, it seems much easier to understand. I think in terms of how many pages my printer has printed, not how many inches it's printed...

totalsolutions

About 1 then, however it's about a full colour, wide image, Is it A3 format, I have not looked it up but you are confusing yourself to say your old printer, in draft mode produced 33 images, B/W low quality. Horses for courses really. Printing in IPM is just as good expressing total length X width.
A4 paper is 210 x 297mm

Speeds were similar too, with a 47-second 6 x 4in photo and 1min 37secs for A4; only documents slowed a little, coming out at 7.3ppm in mono and 4.6ppm in colour.

Read more: Canon Pixma MP640 review | Printers | A-List | Reviews | PC Pro http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/printers/351181/canon-pixma-mp640#ixzz0wI3npR4r

Lit_Up

totalsolutions wrote: »

you are confusing yourself to say your old printer, in draft mode produced 33 images, B/W low quality.

No I meant text documents, not photos. I will be printing text on this thing too and want to know how fast it is.

I still think it's normal for people to think in pages not inches. How long was the book you last read? How large is the document work wants you to read? To these questions I would always respond in pages, not inches.

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