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Stylish Photo Printer with 5 Individual Ink Tanks and Built-in Auto Duplex Printing. more info
Canon PIXMA iP4700 Premium Inkjet Photo Printer 3742B002
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Canon Pixma iP4700 is a winner
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Looking for a printer that just prints, without scanners, faxes or other unnecessary and expensive distractions, I found this jewel. Excellent photos, very good text at a reasonable price and with reasonably low cost of operation.
Fantastic, affordable printer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
My old Canon i960 was dying, and it was time to purchase a new printer. After loads of research, I chose the Pixma ip4700…and it completely lived up to the high expectations I have for Canon photo printers. Prints are crisp and colors are fantastic. Plus, technology has improved so much since I last purchased a printer–dpi is better, and print speed is much, much faster than my old i960. For around $100, you can’t go wrong. People are always amazed when they see prints I make on Canon printers…the quality rivals and possible even surpasses print labs.
Newer isn’t always better
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
My trusty Pixma iP5200 bit the dust a few weeks ago due to an unknown problem. It always functioned well, and was very reliable and produced excellent results. I depended on it for all my regular printing, especially the hidden feature for printing on CD/DVD discs. They came out beautifully in about 30 seconds. It was time to move on and upgrade. Or so I thought.
First, I had to wonder why Canon produced the Pixma iP5200 several years before the new iP4700 came along. What’s up with that?! Nevermind. I went ahead and ordered the 4700. After receiving it and setting up, I discovered several troubling things. I noticed it takes forever to start up when you send it a print job. Several minutes at least, all the while spewing wasted ink during way too many cleaning cycles. And if the unit wasn’t already turned on, it was reported as Offline by the computer and has to be manually powered on, not very user-friendly!
To add insult to injury, Canon doesn’t seem to be getting paid enough for their ink cartridges, and so, to improve revenues, has reduced the newer CLI-221 cartridge capacity to a mere 9 mL of ink, and drained the PGI-220 to only 19 mL. The older CLI-8′s had 13.6 mL in them, and the PGI-5 Bk had 26 mL! That’s over 30% less ink you are paying the same amount of money for, and the printer goes through more cleaning cycles than it’s predecessors did. You do the math!
The last straw for me was finding out that the printer does not print CD/DVD discs. This was a very important feature to me. Units sold in Europe are endowed with this capability as a standard feature. I was able to utilize the hidden feature in my previous iP5200 by reprogramming it for Euro mode, and using CDLabelPrint (which, by the way, works wonderfully and can print all the way to the 17mm center hole!).
Bottom line, I ended up selling the printer 1 week after purchasing it to a friend who did not need the CD/DVD printing feature, and acquiring a Canon iP4500 legacy printer (the very last model produced which does CD/DVD printing, now sadly discontinued).
Beware of this unit’s limitations. It will print very high quality photos, and does fast and crisp text. However, your consumables costs for ink are going to much higher (unless you know how to refill using quality inks), and the issues with no CD/DVD option and refusing to print from a power-off state pushed it over the edge for me.
A Great Printer brought low by cost of ink and rate of ink use!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
The quality of the printing from this printer is as good as any I have seen, which makes it all the worse that I still can’t give it better than one star. The fact is that if it were a car, it would be the number one model traded in during Cash for Clunkers, since this printer eats ink like Al Gore wastes fuel flying everywhere, and than some. It isn’t just on the high end settngs either, as even on fast quality and with standard paper it drains both your ink and your budget. If you have the money to burn, you’ll get great prints. If not, look for an older model like the 4200 or 4300, both of which I’ve owned (the 4700 was a replacement for the 4300 that lasted years and printed thousands of pages per month without sending me to the poor house over ink). After years of buying Canon, my next printer isn’t going to be from them without some serious research into ink consumption on their and other brand models. Too bad, I realy like the way this printer prints, but my old 4200 will be getting more use, with the 4700 saved for those rare times I can justify the cost.
AS USUAL…
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
What can I say…..I have yet to be disappointed with any Cannon printer. I ALWAYS research big purchase items through Amazon being such in invaluable review tool…I love you AMAZON.
Back to the printer. I almost fell for the Kodak printer because of ink cost…the big seller. I hate buying ink and Kodak does develop excellent pictures so I was about to stray away from my beloved Cannon. But after reading the reviews there was no way I was going to settle just to save on the ink cost. So I got my new printer in the mail and WOW. You can’t go wrong, you really can’t.
Stripped down version sold in the USA
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Canon’s successor to its popular iP4600 has received glowing reviews, but unlike the European and Australian versions, the USA model of the iP4700 does not offer CD/DVD printing capability.
‘Sup with that, Canon???!
Great Printer!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I purchased this printer after a lot of research here on Amazon and elsewhere. This printer is replacing an old Epson Stylus Photo 780 that I’ve had for years. I was really unhappy with the Epson because the ink heads clogged up constantly. I also wanted the newest printer possible, since I’ve had problems with other devices not updating their drivers, so this printer fit the bill.
The Canon printer has been wonderful for me so far. It was easy to set up and install and worked right away. I’m using Snow Leopard on a Mac, so I had to download the actual driver from Canon’s web site, but this is easy to do and pretty self-explanatory.
I love that the printer is all enclosed. The regular paper sits in a tray at the bottom, and everything can be closed up so that dust doesn’t get into it. Photo paper is loaded at the rear.
This printer has individual ink cartridges, a plus in my opinion.
I am using it lightly (10-15 regular color pages, 1-2 photos per week) so I have not dented the supply level on the ink cartridges, and can’t really comment on how fast the ink runs out. The print quality is pretty good for the regular paper, and very good for photos. I was very impressed with the photos that I printed, they were sharp and the color was great.
The software drivers are adequate and not too confusing. I found this printer very easy to use and of good quality. I’m very happy with it, and it’s miles better than my old Epson.
So Far So Good
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’ve only been using this printer for 3 weeks, but have been using it a lot. I’m using it only for photos. The prints come out much better than my older HP photo printer. I would recommend this printer to anyone that wants to print out great photos.
A Quality small printer.
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I needed a printer to fit in a tight space. I would like to have a printer with more features and possibly higher quality photo printing like some of the higher end Canon printers. Nevertheless, Canon makes a high quality printer even at lower ends of their spectrum.