The Canon PIXMA iX4000 supplies a nice feature set when it comes to both the paper it can manage and also the speed of the outcome, even though as we will observe it's actually not quite as rapid as Canon make out.
The iX4000 has 4800x1200dpi printing along with 2-picolitre (two billionth's of litre) droplet sizes, which means even though it makes use of just four inks, the end product is exceptional for artwork, copy and also photos. The Canon FINE (Full-Photolithography Nozzle Engineering) used to produce very exacting nozzles for the ink droplets to move through.
Add to that the utilization of four ChromaLife100 dye-based individual ink tank inks and print permanence is just about 30-years if a print is exhibited, 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 "typical" cyan, magenta and yellow inks.
When it comes to connectivity, the iX4000 offers PictBridge compatibility for all those digital camera models designed with it (and Canon cameras do) along with a USB2. interface, even though disappointingly, the printer isn't provided with a USB cable, and this appears unusual but is possibly due to the fact the majority of purchasers of this printer are going to be trading up from smaller sized (A4 e . g .) printers.
Installing the iX4000 is rather easy although pretty slow, the drivers and extensive software taking close to 20-mins to load up, right after you have unpacked the printer from its numerous chuncks of polystyrene, plastic, sticky tape; loaded the user replaceable print head and also put the inks inside their individual slots inside the print head.
Nevertheless, once working a rapid print head alignment is required to guarantee the machine is printing at top accuracy and you're away. Canon promises print rates of speed of around 18ppm and 14ppm for mono and colour documents with a combination of text, graphics and images respectively. Yet once you desire to stretch the printers photo-printing legs things slow down.
However, you'll find a couple of unusual issues which seem to be a little out of place. One is the setting in the print driver which "stops paper scratching". Exactly why on earth do you want the paper to scuff? High-gloss papers can mark at the best of instances therefore this should actually be on definitely not off by default; or why not merely make the printer so that it can not abrade the paper to begin with, ever?
And there is a base plate cleaning operation which needs to be done regularly to halt ink from borderless output which in turn misses the paper from marking the reverse of the prints. This can be specially crucial should you alternate from, say, borderless A4 printing up to bigger A3 printing; you could easily get ink marks on the reverse of the prints if this isn't done from time to time.
When it comes to output, making use of Canon Photo Paper Pro and the printers Super Fine print setting, a borderless A4 photo print requires approximately 10-minutes. Switch to borderless A3 and yes it (nearly) doubles.
However, the delay is worth it. Given this is a four Canon Pixma ink cartridge printer and many photo printers these days now make use of light inks for example light magenta and cyan, or even utilize further, colour-gamut broadening inks for example red or purple or even additional blacks, the iX4000 creates excellent quality photo prints.
Detail is excellent as well as subtlety of tones in skin, highlights, and shadows is effectively rendered. All around, it's a flexible well-rounded package which will be at home printing graphics and text for "office" type jobs or printing top quality photos.
Canon PIXMA iX4000 ink cartridges can be found here.
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