The standard inkjet printer with low cost and cool photo-centric touches

Category: Review on Canon IP4600 Photo Printer

Posted by: 14-Jul-2009

Strengths: Low price, duplex facility, printed photos are of good quality

Weaknesses: Slower than other printers, high running costs

Canon IP4600 photo color printer is an excellent photo printer which costs less compared to other printers with the same features. The color printer has two paper input options and duplex printing. Though the warm-up process takes some time, it works reasonably fast after that. The print quality is of fairly high level. Color graphics look great even on cheap copy paper. With Canon's photo paper plus glossy paper color photos look wonderful. You can either load 150 sheets in each of the paper trays or you can also load plain paper in one and photo papers in the other one.

You can also connect the camera phone or digital camera to the printer and print the photos directly. The Canon IP4600 photo color printer comes with the Auto Photo Fix feature which helps to enhance the quality of the images. The ChromaLife100+ system delivers photos that last very long. The printer consists of the 5-color ink system. It has one pigment-based black ink and four dye-based inks. You will only have to replace the ink that runs out. Though the graphics have a tendency to lose thin lines, the output is good enough for business use.

Setting up the printer is very easy and it is very user friendly as well. Status and error messages are displayed on the computer screen which helps the users to detect the problems. The Canon IP4600 photo color printer is an ideal choice for budget-minded home user. Though the printer speed has gone down with Canon IP4600 photo color printer, it offers more-than-reasonable paper handling, output quality, and price.