Canon Pixma iP4700 printer ink cartridges

The PIXMA iP4700 is the ultimate A4 photo printer, offering superior photo quality and fast document printing alongside extra features: print straight onto a DVD or make double-sided prints with ease. It uses five individual ink cartridges and we offer both Canon originals and award winning compatible inkjet cartridges at discount prices. For best value look for multipacks available for use in this printer.

 Canon Pixma IP4700 Review

{The Canon Pixma IP4700 is Canon's most recent inkjet printer which is still equipped with the shiny black covering akin to its forerunner, the Canon Pixma IP4600, and likewise features elegant gunmetal highlights.

The IP4700 in addition preserves many of the elements we cherished most about the IP4600, such as two paper trays, the simple fact users are cautioned on their Personal computer display screen if the print output tray is not open as well as your being able to print on to DVDs and CDs when using the integrated dedicated tray.

The machine additionally offers several enhancements over the IP4600. These include the inclusion of Auto Photo Fix II to the bundled Easy-PhotoPrint EX software. Among the key advantages of this software is it can easily be set up to routinely correct colour, contrast along with brightness while not making the ensuing prints either too dark or too light - a thing that is especially tough to correct with under-exposed pictures. The Canon Pixma IP4700 also offers a built-in duplexing function.

We found the IP4700 very simple to set up and install. As soon as we'd inserted the five individual inks (cyan, yellow, magenta and two blacks), in the exact same way similar to the IP4600, we were able to set up the bundled software and then connect the printer to our Pc by means of USB. After that the software delivered us step-by-step through aligning the printheads before we were in a position to commence printing.

As well as USB connectivity, the IP4700 provides PictBridge connectivity which allows you to print photos direct from a digital camera free of initially having to download them to a Computer.

Canon states the IP4700's biggest advance is that it is faster than its forerunner and will print 9.2 images per minute in black and approximately 8.1ppm in colour. In our lab tests, the Canon Pixma IP4700 printed a combined colour and graphics document in 21 seconds, while our nine-page text document required 51 seconds, amounting to an output rate of 10.5ppm.

In Draft mode black text seemed clear and well-defined and photos showed clear detailing. Colours looked slightly soft in draft mode yet appeared vivid and brilliant in Normal and Best modes. Photos appeared very clear and well-defined with good detailing and skin tones represented realistically.

The Canon Pixma IP4700 genuinely impressed us. It is a superior quality inkjet printer which generates excellent results using the five Canon Pixma IP4700 printer ink cartridges inside a small quantity of time. We also loved the fact that it was extremely quiet. If outstanding prints tend to be what you need and you aren't in the market for either copying or scanning features, this is the ideally suited printer.