Canon PIXMA iP4000R Wireless Photo Printer

Canon PIXMA iP4000R Wireless Photo Printer
Manufacturer: Canon
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
The Canon PIXMA iP4000R Photo Printer delivers high speed, superb quality and the ultimate freedom of wireless printing. Conforming to the IEEE 802.11g wireless (WiFi) standard, it can receive wireless transmissions within a range of up to 164 feet. Now, you can print a photo or report from your patio to your den, or from your kitchen to your home office - no wires required! Plus, with direct photo printing, just connect any PictBridge compatible digital camera or DV camcorder, and print. You can even produce edge-to-edge true borderless photos in 4 x 6, 5 x 7 and 8.5 x 11 in. sizes, with the look and feel of traditional photographs.The ContrastPLUS 5-color ink system - four dye-based inks plus a pigment-based black ink - produces true-life photos along with laser-quality text. To achieve a high resolution of up to 4800 x 1200 color dpi, Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a high-performance 1, 856-nozzle print head that ejects precise, consistent droplets as small as 2 picoliters. Need speed? You can blaze through document printing at up to 25 ppm in black and up to 17 ppm in color, and a beautiful 4" x 6" borderless photo takes only 36 seconds.

Average customer rating:

Very convenient in WiFi home
Canon fits the bill!
Exercise in frustration for low light pics--and very little control
Good printer so far
Quality and Speed

Canon PIXMA iP5200R Photo Printer

Manufacturer: Canon
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Print resolutions up to 9,600 x 2,400 dpi color and 600 x 600 dpi black
Maximum print speeds of 24 ppm color and 30 ppm black
Network-ready for Ethernet or 802.11b/g wireless systems
Windows and Macintosh compatible; USB 2.0 and Direct Print Port interfaces
One-year warranty

ASIN: B000AYDQW0
Release Date: 2005-09-26

Product Description

The feature-rich PIXMA iP5200R Photo Printer can produce a beautiful photo lab quality 4x6 borderless print in about 36 seconds. And it delivers an amazing resolution of up to 9600x2400 color dpi, for detail and clarity unmatched by comparable printers. To achieve this, Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a next-generation 3,584-nozzle print head that ejects precise, consistent droplets as small as 1 picoliter. The ContrastPLUS 5-color ink system, four dye-based inks and a pigment-based black ink, also produces true-life photos with a wide color palette with laser-quality text. The iP5200R photo printer conforms to the IEEE 802.11b/g wireless (WiFi) standard, enabling it to receive wireless transmissions from up to 164 feet away. Print a photo front just about anywhere. Integrate this versatile printer into a full wireless home network or print to it from an individual WiFi-enabled computer. The iP5200R photo printer uses WiFi Protected Access (WPA), the latest technology to help make your wireless printing more secure. And if your home or office uses a mix of Windows PCs and Mac computers, the iP5200R photo printer is designed to work with both. ChromaLife100 system for long lasting, beautiful photos Built-in 2 sided printing and second paper tray for convenient paper selection Windows XP, Me, 2000, 98, Mac OS X v10.2.1 to 10.4.x Dimension - Width 17.5 x Height 6.3 x Depth 12.2 inches Weight - 16.1 pounds

Amazon.com Product Description

This printer might just become your favorite home electronics component. The feature-rich PIXMA iP5200R Photo Printer can produce a beautiful photo lab quality 4" x 6" borderless print in about 36 seconds. And it delivers an amazing resolution of up to 9,600 x 2,400 color dpi, for detail and clarity unmatched by comparable printers. To achieve this, Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a next-generation 3,584-nozzle print head that ejects precise, consistent droplets as small as one picoliter. Also, the ContrastPLUS five-color ink system--four dye-based inks and a pigment-based black ink--produces true-life photos with a wide color palette, along with laser-quality text.

Want to print directly from your PictBridge compatible digital camera or DV camcorder? It's easy: just connect and print! The dual paper path lets you keep photo paper stored in one tray and plain paper in the other, so you're always ready to print photos or documents. Another feature is the two-sided printing capability using the auto sheet feeder or the paper cassette - helping you cut your paper usage in half.

The iP5200R photo printer conforms to the IEEE 802.11b/g wireless (WiFi) standard, enabling it to receive wireless transmissions from up to 164 feet away. Meaning? You can work here and print there, with no printer cable to tie you down. Print a photo from your den, or a report from the patio. You can integrate this versatile printer into a full wireless home network, or print to it from an individual WiFi-enabled computer. The iP5200R photo printer uses WiFi Protected Access (WPA), the latest technology to help make your wireless printing more secure. And if your home or office uses a mix of Windows PCs and Mac computers, no problem; the iP5200R photo printer is designed to work with both.

The Canon ChromaLife100 system combines the PIXMA iP5200R Photo Printer's FINE print head technology and newly developed inks with select Canon photo papers, with results rivaling that of many conventional photos. These beautiful photos will also last up to 100 years when stored in an archival quality photo album.

What's in the Box:
PIXMA iiP5200R Photo Printer, PIXMA iP5200R print head, ink tanks: PGI-5Bk black, CLI-8Bk black, CLI-8C cyan, CLI-8M magenta, CLI-8Y yellow, power cord, easy setup instructions, document kit, Canon Photo Paper Pro for Borderless Printing 4" x 6" sample pack

Customer Reviews:

Very convenient in WiFi home.......2007-01-04

This printer is very convenient in our WiFi household [family with high school and college students, a couple of laptops, a couple of desktops, something different every day]. We used to keep a PC with attached Epson C80 printer on wired LAN. The PC had to be on and the printer had to be on. The print nozzles kept clogging, and Epson told me the solution was to power off the printer when not printing. The old printer kept getting clogged heads because it would only "park" when powered off. So either we had to keep the printer "off" and turn it on/off manually, or go through an ink wasting ritual clean/test/clean/test until the print nozzles unclogged.

Now things are much better... The Canon PIXMA iP5200R is on WiFi, so I don't have to use a PC to "host" the printer. The PIXMA has automatic power on/off, so it turns on when someone sends a print job and turns itself off when not in use. This is very convenient, saves power, and no trouble with the ink/nozzles.

I don't do a lot of extremely technical photography so I can't say how the PIXMA compares to other photo printers. The photos I print look great to me. Text and graphics printing look great too.

I think I'm getting good ink economy compared to other printers. The printer cartridges hold a lot of ink compared to some other brands (more ink per unit cost) and I'm not having to waste a lot of ink in the print nozzle cleaning ritual.

I'm very happy with this printer. I'm only disappointed that Canon discontinued this model, I was going to buy another one for another network setup at remote part-time office.

Canon fits the bill!.......2006-11-16

I originally purchased the Canon PIXMA IP4200 photo printer for use as a color printer (to print my school assignments), with the ability to print photos with some degree of accuracy. The 4200 worked well, but didn't have the ability to print on my home network with multiple platforms, mainly Mac Tiger 10.4 and Windows XP and 2000 Pro at the same time. That was really frustrating and unbelievable. I could not even use an A/B switch; the PIXMAs require a single full-time dedicated USB port. I have used printers from Brother and HP and never had issues printing while sharing across a network, even across multiple platforms. After a lot of effort and patience on my part, Canon agreed to replace it with the PIXMA IP5200R. At first it worked while the USB ports were plugged into a Mac computer, however (using the Ethernet port) with the Windows computers did not print at all. After I changed it around so that the USB port was plugged into a Windows computer, and shared that with other Windows PC's, not the Mac, it worked. I installed the network driver software (via Ethernet) for the Mac to work. I think that downloading the latest drivers from Canon's web-site would be a good idea, not using the driver disk that comes with the printer. It is working now for all five of my home computers, and I am satisfied. One of the main reasons I chose Canon over HP is that I did not like the fact that when I owned an HP printer, when the color cartridge ran out of one of the three inks, the whole cartridge had to be replaced, wasting 2/3 of the cartridge's ink, not to mention the fact that the print head had to be replaced too. Print heads can last a lot longer then the ink tanks. I like the fact that the PIXMA series has five ink tanks, which may sound expensive, but it allows for greater overall efficiency in supply use. I think that many people are complaining about the supply usage, but I believe that what happens when you install a new print head is that it uses almost half the ink just to fill the print head. Subsequent ink tank replacements should "last longer". While the Canon PIXMA series is certainly different then most, I believe it represents a better value then anything on the market.

Exercise in frustration for low light pics--and very little control.......2006-09-21

This printer has been an exercise in frustration. I was very happy with our Epson 200R, but we used it to death and wanted to try an upgrade. I should have bought 2 more of the Epsons.

I like to take pics in low light, and this printer has not yet printed a low light print w/ enough detail. They are all horribly dark, muddy. The details drop out. The most frustrating thing is that the print driver gives very little by way of choice. Whereas the cheaper Epson gave more control over print quality, to adjust brightness the Canon gives three choices: Light Normal andd Dark. "Light" just washes out the picture. And, still, for my lowest light pics, Light is still too too dark. My pics look like MUD.

I read online that i should use the proprietary software to adjust the brightness of my pics. First, i hate the idea that i have to make my photos lighter just so they'll print correctly. Second, the software crashes every single time I get to the final step!

I understand there are various "profiles" i could use to help. Well, i frankly would rather be doing other things than spending an hour to print one photograph. Like taking pictures. I don't want to fool endlessly with settings--I just want a printer that works.

Argh!!!

The first few prints we made with this printer looked ok. I think they were probably brigth, outdoor shots. For anything else this printer has been useless.

Gave 2 stars bc the wireless funtion would be convenient--if only the printer worked correctly!!

Good printer so far.......2006-08-02

Despite what others have reported, I had no problems setting up the printer for both wired and wireless. I do recommend setting it up wired first. My 2nd computer prints via the DLink wireless router with no problems. The power button on the printer is pretty well hidden (black button on a black case) but I discovered the auto power on/off setting which works great, even with wireless.

The duplex feature is great and photos print nicely.

Note, for the wireless set up you do need to know a little about this. If someone set up your wireless for you then you might need them back to configure the SSID (and WEP key if used.)

I have had no problem with ink and have done quite a bit of color printing and still have the original cartridges.

Quality and Speed.......2006-07-25

This printer is wonderful. The print quality is as good as you get through snapfish or similar digital processing companies - assuming you step up and buy good photo paper. The output speed is excellent in both color and black. The flexibilty of having two paper trays works well for me as I have the printer hidden away in a draw and connected wirelessly to my hub/router. The printer is larger than I expected but, really what's the big deal, if you want a smaller printer that's portable get a HP Deskjet 460bwt. Set up was a breeze - I'm running Mac OS 10.4.7 on a MacBook Pro. Great quality, great price and excellent flexibility with the wireless feature.

Canon PIXMA iP4000R Wireless Photo Printer

Average customer rating:

Effortless
Quiet, sharp print quality ...easy to setup
Very Flexible Printer
Wow! This printer is amazing!
Best printer ever

Canon PIXMA iP4000R Wireless Photo Printer

Manufacturer: Canon
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics