A very good printer. (Canon Pixma iP4300)

Member Name: Jonny_L

Product:	Canon Pixma iP4300
Date:	04/06/08 (139 review reads)
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Advantages: Fast, great quality, great ink usage

Disadvantages: Ink is expensive, though you won't need to buy it that often.

This is one of the best printers I've bought, in fact it's so good I've got 2 of them. Quality wise it's absolutely spot on, especially when you consider the price tag, this cost me £80 at PCworld, however they go for less if you shop around on the net. It's also quite quiet and doesn't shake the whole room around when printing.

The cartridges are really expensive (it costs around £40-50 to fill with proper canon ones), and cheap alternatives don't work very well due to the need for a chip, however the ink that came with my IP4300 has outlasted any other printer ink I've had. I do a lot of photo printing and I've had the printer for almost a year, and I'm still on the factory cartridges on one!

The twin paper loading system is great, as you can keep a nice big stash of A4 in the bottom tray while using the top tray for photo paper, envelopes, or even T-shirt transfers. Plus of course it has a CD printing option, which, when using the right discs, looks both professional and flawless.

The software that comes with the printer is easy to use, CD labelprint lets you design and obviously print some great looking discs.

Back to the quality of the print. It's brilliant. Great colours, no marks or lines, and unless I've had something really special to print out, I've not actually ordered professional photo prints since getting this printer.

The machine it's self is of good quality. It's quite hard wearing, though I'd imagine that the fold out "out-tray" would snap pretty easily. It does seem quite flexible, though I wouldn't want to accidentally lean on it.

Overall it's a really nice printer, and to top it all off it looks good too!

Summary: Great quality images regardless of format, and a robust design.

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