Canon PIXMA iP4300 Photo Printer

This 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 two sided without manually flipping over the page!

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• Reviewed by: gnbrown34

  11-21-07

  Duration of ownership: 30 Days

  Strengths: speed,simple to operate,quality output

  Weaknesses:ink capacity

  Overall Evaluation: Good printer, much better than the HP I replaced. Would recommend it highly from a price/performance standpoint. It does run out of ink fairly quickly but that can be resolved by having some backups.

• Reviewed by: adlisita

  09-07-07

  Duration of ownership: 1 Months

  Strengths: Low price, duplex printing, exceptional CD printing, very good documents printing, good photos quality, same cartridges used for all printing types

  Weaknesses:2 black cartridges required

  Overall Evaluation: I bought this printer because I needed a printer able to print documents, pictures and CDs/DVDs. For its $90 price and its quality it is undoubtly a great product. This printer requires 5 cartridges and first good thing is you do not need to change them for printing photos. Strange is that requires 2 black cartridges. Cartridges are around $15-20 each or $66 for 4 cartridges and $20 for the additional black cartridge.Initially printer comes with these cartridges half filled. I can't tell yet how many pictures you may print with a set in order to have an idea for the cost per picture. However, I printed 3 dozens photos 4"X6" and several documents pages and there is no sign that any of the cartridge should need be replaced somewhere in the next future. The greatest advantage is CD/DVD printing (you need CD/DVD specifying they are suitable for ink printing) and the excellent quality of the print, the good time (15 seconds) and even the easy software allowing you to design and perform the printing. Documents printing is very good and fast too and add to this duplex printing which I never seen in a budget printer. However it is true that duplex printing on an ink printer can be performed only if you have good paper not allowing you to see on one side the printed text from the other side (ink unlike toner impregnates the paper). Photos printing even if it is not exceptional it is very good and is the same quality (or even slighty better) then the quality of photos printed for instance at Costco but obviously depends on picture quality too. Darker interior photos look also great. For tests I used the cheap glossy photo paper from Costco (Kirkland) which has a price of $0.05/4x6 paper. One picture 4x6 is printed in 20-30 seconds. A real advantage is PictureBridge capability which if supported by your digital camera will allow you printing directly from your camera and works great. I am also using this printer shared within a network and I had no problems but obviously you have to install its software on all computers supposed to use it not only on the one sharing it. Using it for only 1 month I can say nothing about its reliability. If you need a budget printer to print documents, photos and CDs I surely think this is by far the best choice at this moment.

• Reviewed by: jthejs

  06-02-07

  Duration of ownership: 3 Months

  Strengths: Automatic duplex printing, good quality printouts, direct printing from camera with PictBridge, 2 paper trays, large paper trays

  Weaknesses:Some paper curl

  Overall Evaluation: In general I am very happy with the purchase of this printer. I was attracted to this printer for its low cost but with quality printouts and automatically duplex printing. Gone are my days of flipping papers to have duplex printing.Having 2 paper trays helps if you are into photo printing and regular printing because you can have plain papers in one and photo papers in another to avoid loading and unloading paper. Large trays are advantageous with 150 sheets max in each tray.The only gripe (a minor one) I have on this printer is the paper curl when printing on a whole page - particular with lots of graphics. Other than that, it is a great printer particularly for its duplex printing capability and good prints.

• Reviewed by: chuck_2584

  05-27-07

  Duration of ownership: 60 Days

  Strengths: Much better lasting than my cx3810 (agh, epson leaching my wallet!) and duplexing a great waste saver!

  Weaknesses:For my uses, none!

  Overall Evaluation: This printer surprised me for it's print quality. Probably because it's my first Canon? For 50 bux, I wish I had bought 2 more. I run a fair amount of prints, and this has been one of the best units on ink use I have had the pleasure to operate. Next good Canon deal, I will be watching for you!

• Reviewed by: lionfan

  05-14-07

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  Strengths: Quiet, duplex printing, good ink capacity, separate ink tanks, picbridge

  Weaknesses:None for this price range

  Overall Evaluation: Other than the lack of generic replacement inks for this printer, there really are few things to complain about on this printer. The print quality is very good in both text and photo. There is a bottom paper tray that is ideal for use when you place the printer in a tight area, such as in a printer cabinet. The top paper feeder adjusts for varying sizes of media (envelopes, 5x7, etc.). All in all, a great basic printer.

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