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 High cost ink make this less attractive December 14, 2006
Edison (United States)
20 out of 31 found this review helpful
Many people buy Canon printers because Canon printers used to allow refill the inks and their ink tank design.
However, since Pixma4200 and this 4300 also, Canon introduced 8 series ink tank has chip to measure how many times the printer had asked tank to produce the ink. The firmware inside the printer calculates what would be the max ink shot it could produce. If you refill before the ink tank was empty, it will still shut you off when the number of ink droplets reachs the pre-set number.
You will be forced to acknowledge that you will void the warranty on that printer head. If you think that is the end of trouble, you are wrong. The firmware will continue monitor how many ink droplets from this refilled ink, you will get warnings over and over again for the warraty is void, the good thing is that it will still tell you that ink tank is empty. You may say, okay, I had agreed void my warranty, why does Canon still want me to void my warranty again and again? Ask those engineers in Japan will not get any answer back to you.
I do like this printer auto-duplex that allowing you print both side the paper without human flip the paper. It also can print more pages per tank of ink than 4200, almost 60% more pages with same kind of content and resolution.
 Pleased as Punch October 2, 2006
The_Point (Sunny, AZ.)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought this for the speed and for it's ability to print directly from a Pictbridge camera. It not only prints blazing fast (compared to my Epson 1200) but uses lightfast ink resulting in a signifigant leap in image stability and longevity for the prints. After connecting the camera to printer I press four buttons (on camera) and the printer does it's thing and out pops a beautiful print without ever turning on the computer! Wow! It comes with separate ink cartridges for each color plus an extra larger black I assume for the laser quality text. It also closes up nicely keeping dust out and has two separate paper feeds for two paper sizes. I likey this printer!!!
WOW! May 25, 2007
Steven G. Hall
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've worked my way up from technician to network administrator in a school system and I've worked with all type printers from large networked printers to small local desktop printers, so when I say "WOW!" about a printer, I am impressed.
The quality of black and white printing and color printing is just as good as most laser printers around. The speed as compared to laser printers is close enough not to be a problem, especially with color printing where one might wait several minutes on the color laser printer to warm up, align itself, and then start printing. Of course on large print jobs laser printers rule.
The quality of photo printing blew me away! Out of the box my prints were equal to or superior than what I used to get from developers. Now, being able to crop, adjust color, tone, or whatever, my prints look much better than before. I will not go back.
And I got all this for just $88! Also, with this printer having seperate tanks for each color, the total cost of ownership is much lower than for printers with combination ink tanks.
The people in our IT department have tried a number of different printers for home use/photo printing and we've all ended up with one type of Canon printer or another. This printer has my highest recommendation!
An artist's delight! June 22, 2007
Pam (Las Cruces, NM)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This printer is BIG but very light in weight and it rolls out your prints quickly and velvety.
Like all Canon printers that I have had, the iP4300 needs to be programmed manually. This is easy to do, but if you run on automatic your printed images will be badly over-exposed. With adjustments the printer will produce excellent quality images on just plain paper.
Here are the settings I use for just plain paper. The printed page is rich in color, and is in sharp focus. If you use glossy papers you will probably have to change the settings from mine, but my settings will give you a ball park. The plain paper proofs are so good I'll probably not even use glossy papers. I prefer a matte look to glossy anyway. With these settings, I suggest using a matte paper. There are upscale matte papers.
Open the properties page
1. plain paper
2. high
3. manual
a. ICM (Windows color management)
b. sliders for cyan, magenta and yellow at 20
c. intensity 50 (dark)
d. contrast 0
e. brightness dark
Good luck and Godspeed, and I hope you enjoy your iP4300 as much as I do!
Cannon you found a new fan!!! October 29, 2006
Tom (Cincinnati, Ohio United States)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I just changed from an Epson 785epx(about 4-5 yrs old). I couldn't be much happier. This printer does seem a little cheap when it comes to the case, but I really don't plan on dropping it or moving it around. I tend to keep my printer right by my computer, so i wasn't to worried when it came to the outside.
I was more worried about the quality of the prints. I was debating between changing my brand to HP or Cannon. All the research I came up with kept pointing me to the Cannon for the photo quality(which was my main concern).
This little printer did not disappoint one bit. I think my favorite part about cannon is the individual ink tanks. I can not tell you how many times I had to waist some ink on my epson because only one color ran out and I still had ink in the other tanks.
I also found 100 sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 Kodak Premium High Gloss paper at Costco for $[...] and the prints came out great(my epson would not print on Kodak paper, only epson paper).
So, for under $[...] this printer should put a hurt on all other brands!!!! Cannon you found a new fan!!!
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