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An excellent printer posted on 2008-12-31
An excellent printer - photo printing quality matches commercial prints.

One small quibble: 'ink may have run out' warning appears far too early - for best ink usage wait until the 'dangerous to continue' warning comes up before replacing cartridges!
 
Can't fault it posted on 2008-12-18
Does the job very well indeed. Trusted the reviews here and wasn't dissapponted. CD printing is a bonus and works well. You need at least an A3 size footprint on your desk to accomodate it.

The ip4600 is out now, seems to be 'rounder' but pleased with this purchase.
 
Waste of money & time. posted on 2008-11-05
Canon have incorporated new ink tank technology in their new printers, seemingly to stop their customers from using anything other than Canon ink. Unfortunately for both the recent Canon printers I've struggled with lately, it just seems to prevent the user from printing anything.
I had a Canon Multi-function printer which I had to return because it said the tank tray was not the original - I'd only had the printer 2 weeks and it was the original Canon ink caddy. In this iP4500, from the start I got a message that 1 of the tanks was invalid and should be replaced - again this was the original Canon cyan with all the ink still in. After switching it on and off a few times it eventually works and I've put up with this for 2 1/2 months now in the vain hope that it would sort itself out. Instead, the error happens all the time now and my iP4500 is just a big squeaky desk ornament! If Canon think this will make customers buy their ink, they're probably right - for those of them whose printers work.
For the handful of pages and the couple of B/W CD labels I printed the quality was very good and fast and although it's big it looks smart.
I'm staying clear of Canon printers from now on though until they can make some hassle free versions, like a few years ago when Canon were the best. Shame on Canon for thinking customers would put up with this!
 
bad idea posted on 2008-10-06
I've given this a low rating for the following reasons: one, the instructions are a bit of a mess. The instructions come in the form of a thick book and a separate sheet. In order to set up the printer, you have to somehow read the book and the sheet at the same time. It's unnecessarily fiddly. Why can't there be a single set of instructions? As it is, you have to keep jumping from one thing to another.

Secondly you won't be able to use this machine straight out of the box. For some reason it doesn't have a USB cable. Only when I was reading the setup instructions did I realise this, and I had to go out and buy one before I could use the printer (which I wasn't very happy about). You can't use the machine without a cable so why isn't one included?

So however good Canon products are, I would think twice before buying anything of theirs again: to sell a printer without the cable you need to operate it is unforgivable.
 
Pixma iP4500 posted on 2008-10-05
Bought this Canon Pixma iP4500 to replace my old Epson C62 which eventually gave up the ghost after nearly 7 yrs on a diet of compatible cartridges. I found the set up a little long winded, the biggest problem was working out how to disable both the anti virus system and the programs which open on start up. I have never had to do this before when installing either hardware or software. But eventually I had the printer up and running. So far the results have been most impressive, it is much quicker, quieter and has a far superior photo print quality than my old Epson. However one would expect this to be the situation on a printer 7 years newer. I have made several test prints of photos already printed by my old Epson using the same programs and print sizes. The results have been very impressive with both the colours and image sharpness being almost identical to those stored on my computer. Another excellent Canon product.
 
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