Canon Pixma iX4000 printer ink cartridges

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 Canon PIXMA iX4000 Cartridge Review

The Canon PIXMA iX4000 supplies a nice set of features when it comes to the paper it is able to manage as well as the speed of the production, even though as we'll discover it's actually not really as fast as Canon make out.

The iX4000 has 4800x1200dpi printing with 2-picolitre (two billionth's of litre) droplet sizes, which means though it utilizes just four inks, the end result is exceptional for images, copy as well as pictures. The Canon FINE (Full-Photolithography Nozzle Engineering) used to produce really precise nozzles for the ink droplets to pass through.

Add to this the usage of four ChromaLife100 dye-based individual ink tank inks and print durability is about 30-years when a print is hung, say, framed on the wall or 100-years if stored in an album according to Canon's test methods. You get a high capacity black, then the "usual" cyan, magenta and yellow inks.

With regards to connectivity, the iX4000 provides PictBridge compatibility for all digital cameras designed with it (and Canon cameras do) along with a USB2. port, though disappointingly, the printer is not given a USB cable, and this would seem unusual but is possibly due to the fact most buyers of this specific printer will be trading up from smaller sized (A4 for instance) printers.

Configuring the iX4000 is fairly easy yet quite slow, the drivers and extensive software taking close to 20-mins to load up, after you have unpacked the printer from its countless chuncks of polystyrene, plastic, sticky tape; positioned the user replaceable print head and also inserted the inks into their particular slots inside the print head.

Nonetheless, once ready to go a fast print head alignment is required to make sure the unit is printing at prime precision and you're away. Canon promises print speeds of approximately 18ppm and 14ppm for mono and colour documents along with a combination of text, graphics and images respectively. But once you wish to stretch the printers photo-printing legs things slow down.

Yet, you will find a few unusual issues which appear a little out of place. One is the mode in the print driver that "stops paper abrasion". Why on earth do you want the paper to scuff? High-gloss papers may mark at the best of occasions therefore this should actually be on not off by default; or why not merely construct the printer to ensure that it can't abrade the paper to begin with, ever?

Plus there's a base plate cleansing process that needs to be completed routinely to prevent ink from borderless output which misses the paper from marking the reverse of one's prints. This can be specially crucial in the event you go from, say, borderless A4 printing up to bigger A3 printing; you could get ink marks on the reverse of the prints if this is not carried out sometimes.

When it comes to output, utilizing Canon Photo Paper Pro as well as the printers Super Fine print setting, a borderless A4 picture print requires approximately 10-minutes. Switch to borderless A3 and yes it (nearly) doubles.

Yet, the delay merits it. Given this is a four Canon PIXMA iX4000 printer cartridge printer and quite a few photo printers these days now utilize light inks such as light magenta and cyan, or make use of additional, colour-gamut broadening inks for example red or purple or even additional blacks, the iX4000 creates superb high quality photograph prints.

Detail is superb as well as subtlety of tones in skin, highlights, and shadows is nicely rendered. All round, it is a flexible well-rounded package that'll be at home printing graphics and text for "office" type work or printing excellent photographs.