Product Description

Canon PIXMA iP4300 Inkjet Printer Photo-quality 30ppm Mono 24ppm Colour Max.9600x2400dpi Ref 1438B008AB

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35198 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 1438B008AB
• Released on: 2006-09-01
• Platform: Windows
• Dimensions: 6.30" h x 11.93" w x 17.52" l, 14.33 pounds

Features

• Canon PIXMA iP4300 Inkjet Printer Photo-quality 30ppm Mono 24ppm Colour Max.9600x2400dpi Ref 1438B008AB

Manufacturer's Description
PIXMA iP4300 is one fast, versatile photo printer. Thanks to its patented print head and 5-color ink system, you can quickly produce spectacular, long-lasting photos with borderless edges - from credit-card size up to 8.5" x 11" - along with bold, laser-quality text. The two paper trays let you hold both plain and photo paper, so you're always ready to print text or photos. And for convenience, you can print 2 sided without manually flipping over the page!

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Customer Reviews

The best printer I have owned
This printer was purchased for the purpose of crafting some family albums out of a few years' worth of digital photographs and so far, two months and a couple of hundred borderless 6X4 inch photos later, it has performed well.

It is easy to install into Windows XP (these things are never exactly as it says in the manual but overall it was fairly painless), and comes with some decent software. If you are like me you may never use software that comes free with hardware (apart from the driver of course), as you will have your own favourite imaging applications already. However, I must say that Canon's Easy Photo Print is a joy to use when rattling off large volumes of photos. It allows you to select, preview, adjust the cropping, and fix common defects such as red-eye instantly prior to printing.

While printing, status of the printer, ink etc. is clearly displayed. The software accurately detects problems (printer offline, cover open, no paper, front-tray-closed) and clear advice pop-ups to help rectify the given situation - disappearing automatically once the instructions have been carried out. When ink is running low such that it will affect the integrity of the image the printer refuses to continue - unlike my old printer that would struggle on, leaving you to scrutinise the quality of the results in order to decide when to change the ink. With this model, you know that you'll either get a perfect image or none at all. When changing the ink, the cartridge that has run out flashes to ensure you pull out the right one - a nice touch. Canon have used their experience to put together a very user friendly interface for their target home audience and it is a joy to use.

Printing is fast enough and the quality of photos matches what you would get if you took your digital copies to the local pharmacy, even on cheap photo paper (mine is £1.99 for 40 sheets from The Works). Colour cartridges started running low at around 75-100 photos, the black ink seems to last much longer. Of course, this printer handles your letters and documents (or more importantly, the kids colour-in sheets!) just as well.

You get cartridges with the printer. To get started you just need to buy separately paper and a USB cable (why do they always do that?). I purchased the Hama USB2.0 A-B Black cable also currently available on Amazon and it works fine.

In summary, I would have been happy if I'd paid over a hundred pounds for this printer so at this price it's a definite recommendation.

Bargain!
This replaced an Epson R340 a year old and nothing but trouble with the print heads! This canon was half the price and does exactly the same,CD printing etc. It is extremly fast and quality on any media is excellent.This printer at £59 is an exceptional buy so get one now,you won't be dissapointed!

makes the rest look like canon fodder.
Just bought this printer and it has blown me away with the quality of the photo's that I've printed. They are superb! Colours are vibrant, quality as good as anything I've seen and the time it takes to print is quick. About 10 secs for a standard size and around 60 secs for an A4. Obviously this depends on what you are printing and how many colours there are in your picture. For example; I have printed on standard size in 4 secs which was predominently blue. It took me a little while to work out how to get to the stage where I could actually print anything but once I figured it out it was a breeze (put this down to my total inability to set anything up quickly however). As I only tend to print the odd photo at any one time I have fed everything from the top and had no problems doing that. Not had to use the cassette feeder yet but don't think I will need to. All in all this is the best printer I have ever bought.