Product Description

Premium photo printer with professional features and versatility at home

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: IP4500
• Released on: 2007-09-14
• Platform: Windows XP
• Dimensions: 15.21 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

PIXMA iP4500 The Pixma iP4500 printer from Canon is perfect for amateur photographers looking for exceptional quality prints at impressive speeds. This printer delivers colour photos in photo lab quality in just 21 seconds! Among its many features, the Pixma iP4500 includes 2 paper trays, PictBridge connectivity and a duplex (double sided) printing mode. The ingenious Pixma iP4500 can even print onto CDs and DVDs! With its intuitive interface, this Canon printer is the perfect solution for budding photographers. This premium Photo and Document Printer offers digital camera owners extra functionality and quality at an unbeatable price. Print what you want, how you want - at high speed and with exceptional results.

PIXMA iP4500 Highlights

Picolitre size The size of the ink droplets can vary, and it is this that you quite often see quoted in printer specifications as a Pico litre rating (pl). The Smaller the nozzle jet, the tinier the ink drop, so the more detailed the print image will be.

Ink tanks/Cartridges To minimise ink wastage and protect the environment, Canon’s Single Ink system uses transparent, individually replaceable single colour ink tanks. Each tank incorporates an LED that fl ashes slowly to indicate when ink is low, or rapidly when the tank is empty. To ensure hassle-free installation, the LED also indicates when a tank is incorrectly installed.

Auto Duplex Built-in Auto Duplex printing capability is compatible with photo paper as well as plain paper feeding from both Rear Tray and Cassette.

CD/DVD Printing Built-in tray guide assures easy handling. Precise, fast, high-quality direct printing on DVD/CD media can be ready just with a tray.

Auto Image Fix Not every photo is perfect; that’s why Canon introduces Auto Image Fix.  It automatically analyses your photo, and then enhances skin tones, colour contrasts and saturations.  Simply scan, and edit them with the easy-to-use software.  Then reprint them to share with family and friends.

ChromaLife 100 ChromaLife100 is a system that improves the beauty and permanence of printed images, realised with the combination of selected Canon inks and papers. By printing with the ChromaLife100 system, your printed photos will resist colour fading for longer, so they can be shared and enjoyed across generations.

Explanation of Software

Easy Photo Print EX Easy-PhotoPrint EX enables you to convert your captured images into quality photo prints in seconds. In 3 easy steps you select images, choose paper type & size and finally select how you want your photo’s printed on the page! Furthermore use your images to create and print photo albums, calendars, albums and calendars. The possibilities are endless. Easy-PhotoPrint EX is supplied with all PIXMA’s.

Visit the Canon store for a full list of Canon genuine inks and paper

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Customer Reviews

excellent print quality
I did a lot of reseach before i bought this printer, it was quite confusing since for every good review there's the equivalent condamnation. Anyway, i went for this one and it's brilliant - I've been printing on proper gloss paper so the quality is outstanding. I have also printed cd's, which is good too. There is only one thing that slightly bugs me - the software that allows you to print onto the cd/dvd doesn't let you print all the way to the centre of the disc. So don't buy full-face discs, as there will only be a circle of white left inside which doesn't look very good. I've done a fair bit of printing since July, when i bought it, and haven't had to change the ink yet. I hope this helps.

Farewell Epson......
After years of stubborn loyalty to Epson printers I finally got tired of buying expensive inks just to clean the print head. Now I have this great little printer from Canon and it actually prints photo's, very good quality photo's with no streaking. It is extremely simple to install, looks great and performs very quietly. You need a very powerful magnifying glass to see any difference between the Canon prints and photo lab prints. For the price, it would be difficult to find a better printer.

Super
I had been using a iP3000 for a long time and was very happy with it - but when I changed to Vista it stopped working properly - coincidence or built-in obsolescence? I am cynical!

So I bought the iP4500 which arrived in two days and proved to be noticeably better than the iP3000. As I use a laser my main reason for purchase was the CD/DVD printing which is excellent!

The only bones of contention are that everything about this printer is just a tiny bit different from the iP3000 so you can't keep spares, especially the cartridges where only the addition of the chip changes them. It causes me to believe that Canon are solely interested in maximising profits so I am very suspicious of the demise of the old one.

That said, it is easily the best printer in it's class and the old one was very economical with its ink, so if this is as good I will probably bite the bullet and buy Canon cartridges.