Canon PIXMA inside out - the iP4200 photo printer

So you may have already heard about the new Canon PIXMA iP4200, doing the rounds in the computer hardware industry today. Everyone is including us check.

Canon has kept mum about the longest lasting photo prints debate for sometime now. Possible explanations include individual cartridges; two paper input trays, the newly released PIXMA iP4200 with built-in duplex printing; simplicity; inexpensive; impressive photos; and 100 year print life. Epson, the leading candidate for durable prints, now has competition. The key ingredient durable prints is Canon's ChromaLife 100 contain ink set in the PIXMA iP4200. The company claims that photos used up to 100 years, with their branded papers printed with ChromaLife 100 inks will last when properly stored.

Compared to the iP4000, the iP4200 is less expensive, faster for business applications, and provides more durability for photos. However, take a little longer to print and to earn a lower quality assessment as the iP4000 photos, but the overall balance of features makes for an impressive package.

PIXMA iP4200 uses Canon's full Photolithography inkjet nozzle Engineering (FINE) print head that effective color resolution 9 provides the droplets that as small freeing the 1,536 nozzle cyan, magenta, yellow and black print heads as 1pl for each (plus 320 nozzles for pigment ink of black text), 600 x 2, 400 dpi. Two separate black cartridges for a black pigment and a dye-based black, greatly increase Photo Edition.

Apart from five inks, photo printer offers the advantage of the two paper inputs: a standard drawer tray on the back and a second paper tray, the slides in the front below. You could now easily load standard paper in a tray and photo paper in the other and back and forth between standard print and switch photos without the swap of paper, every time. An eco-friendly feature of this printer includes the ability to automatically print paper on both sides of a sheet. However, it can be three times as long, to print single-sided sheets print a 10-page Word document in this mode to take.

The iP4200's driver can automatically adjust color balance, you can access, slider, to change; the intensity of individual inks you can switch from sRGB to Windows image color management (ICM). Grayscale print requires simply uncheck of a checkbox, and a simplistic print Advisor Wizard can on the type of document you print and recommend an appropriate paper quiz.

Other than duplex Setup options include the page size and orientation, number of copies, border/borderless printing and adding a background image or a watermark. A tab effects provides settings to optimize the image; reduce noise; contrast; increase or effects such as sepia, pink and add other colors. You can save your settings as a profile for reuse in another print session.

Maintenance tab features like nozzle inspections and cleaning, print head alignment and other tasks, including an end plate cleaning function that uses a folded sheet letter size, to clean up before duplex printing.

Rated graphics quality, at the top of the good, suitable for schoolwork or internal business use and is slightly good enough for a major customer or those who might want to impress. Some photos suffers however contain a slight pink shade in black and white photos and a tendency for some colors be overly punchy. It was a bit tedious, a neutral gray from the printer out as prints tended to either green or blue depending on the driver settings to get.

PIXMA iP4200 refilling cartridges of the new Canon PGI-5 and CLI-8 cartridges have an onboard chip the ink level to measure each individual cartridge. The five individual ink cartridges in the PIXMA iP4200 have bright red LEDs light up when installed correctly. The cartridge lights to Flash when ink is running low, and the flashing is faster, as the tanks have also begin emptier. The PIXMA iP4200 figures are cartridges: PGI-5BK - black pigment ink CLI-8BK - black pigment based ink CLI-8 c - based cyan dye ink CLI-8 M - ink magenta dye based CLI 8Y - yellow dye-based ink these cartridges are also suitable for PIXMA iP5200 iP5200r printer MP500, MP800, MP950 MFPs.
Needless to say, would know many people these cartridges can be recharged or compatible cartridges are available. After the now (February 2006) compatible computer unavailable probably are colors for PGI5 or CLI8 for 2 reasons: the ink formulations are quite complex and refill ink manufacturers must ensure that your inks lead equivalent to the original Canon inks.
Canon patents have the on board chip; Consequently, compatible manufacturers must be very careful, not hurting this patent that could leave you open disputes. Canon recently won a lawsuit against a company in Japan that was involved in the business of refilling and resale of Canon cartridges. Of course this will reset any plans for compatible cartridges.
However, there are inks that are statements of ink on the market available to fill and refill providers available. Canon has very cleverly adapted your printer; if you fill the cartridges and insert into the machine, a warning message appears on your computer along the lines: "Use refill ink in your cartridges." "If you continue your printer warranty becomes null and void." You are prompted, press "OK", and after doing the low ink warning plant on the printer no longer works. If this, never to let that run inks, dry, as this is your print head burn must be very careful.