A Canon PIXMA IP4000 Color Photo Printer Review

When people require printing high quality photos and text documents, the Canon PIXMA iP4000 color photo printer will be very ideal either for home use or any small office. It can do a perfect work on borderless photo prints, glossy and it comes with some paper handling features which common photo printers have a shortage.

If you often use various kinds of paper, you will find the ip4000's a couple of paper tray practical. You can load your preferred paper of up to 150 sheets in the cassette of printer's base. You can also switch paper more often, for example distinct sizes of photo paper, ought to get into the erect sheet feeder at the rear of the printing machine. The paper feeder can load as many as 150 sheets associated with letter paper or even as many as 20 sheets of 4x6 inch photo paper. A switch on the front side of the printing machine allows you to choose the default paper source, or else you are able to select between them from your driver software.

With the existence of duplexer feature, you can print your paper on its both sides at the same time. When you are not using the machine, you can fold up the output tray onto the front of the printing machine.

The iP4000 comes with5 separated ink cartridges.They are two black inks where one for photo print and the other for solid and dark text; cyan ink; magenta ink; and yellow ink.

In spite of those promising features with regard to office use, i was rather dissatisfied when using the plain paper for printing. When the iP4000 was tested to print text, the text printed looked really sharp, plus even the tiniest font sizes could be read. The several errors i discovered included a few letters along with somewhat unclear edges and several bold, blocky characters which bled within each other. However the ip4000 happened on line-art examination, failing to recreate lines of vertical type longer than.5 inch without having to wobble, plus producing an odd diagonal structure within a block of close lines of horizontal type. The darkest regions of colour images which were printed on plain paper altered suddenly to significant black, covering most detail plus unattractively unlike the entire washed-out look of the rest of the picture.

Printing on photo paper, the printing machine handled very perfect colour precision, fine detail in shadows, plus a lot of contrast. When printing grayscale photo, it was looked outstanding, along with soft tonal alterations, no colour cast, plus very crisp detail.

The test of the printing speed of The iP4000 showed 6.8 pages per minute for printing text, and 2.5 pages per minute for printing color or photo.

Amazing feature like a PictBridge-compatible USB port allows you to print any compatible digital camera directly. The iP4000 does not come with media card slots, so you must use USB port or parallel port to be able to connect it. The installation of software is very easy, just follow the instructions and it is done.

To support a printer driver, Canon also includes an Easy-WebPrint to print web pages, a PhotoRecord to join pictures into photo album and an Easy-PhotoPrint application to print personal photos.

Conclusion: This Canon PIXMA iP4000 color photo printer is an excellent collaboration printing machine with regard to office paperwork as well as top quality photos, if you do not mind with the less perfect printout when printing by using plain paper.