The Canon Pixma iP3500 is a low-cost, single-function printer designed for home users with light printing needs. The design of Canon Pixma iP3500 is simple and straightforward. This black and silver printer measures 17.2 inches wide, 11.9 inches deep, and 5.7 inches tall, and it weighs 10.8 pounds. The control panel is basically nonexistent. The only features on the front of the printer are the power and cancel/feed buttons and a PictBridge-enabled USB port.
The printer has two input options. The rear input holds as many as 150 sheets of plain paper and is good for all the acceptable paper types. The front input holds up to 100 sheets of plain paper and should be used only for plain paper. The cheap iP3500 uses a four-ink system with individual ink cartridges. Canon estimates the per-page costs for the Pixma iP3500 to be 3 cents for a black-and-white print and 5 cents for a full-color print. The features of iP3500 are predictably simple. The only connection option is USB 2.0. It does serve up a PictBridge USB port for connecting PictBridge cameras and other devices, but it lacks memory card slots.
The cheap Pixma iP3500 prints black text at a rate of 6.52 pages per minute (ppm). The Canon produced color graphics prints at a rate of 2.07ppm. The Canon is fastest at printing 4×6 photos. The print quality of Pixma iP3500 is good. The black text print showed decent sharpness and legibility. The characters were nicely dark, too. The color graphics print has sharp details in photo elements, pleasing saturation, and good color reproduction.