"The breadbin-shaped PIXMA iP4000 is Canon's latest A4 inkjet printer designed for all-round usage. Besides the attractive grey-and-silver enclosure, the printer uses Canon's ContrastPLUS technology - a five tank ink system that includes an additional dye-based black ink for sharper contrast. It also sports a tiny 2-picolitre ink droplet size, which helps it to output good looking prints on high-quality paper. However, prints on regular paper are very disappointing, with text appearing fuzzy and uncontrolled and images suffering from severe banding. There's also no built-in memory card slots, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Nevertheless, for just £109 (ex. VAT), you do get dual paper trays, automatic duplex printing, CD-R/DVD printing functions, as well as impressive output quality on high-quality paper, making the PIXMA iP4000 a good value offering if you intend to print mostly 6x4in. documents."I was looking forward to the new PIXMA line of printers, but fuzzy text on plain paper? That's nothing like my i950, which has fantastic quality text on plain paper. Or I wonder if "plain paper" for them is some cheap 20 lb junk? I only print on 24 lb bright (90+) paper, so that may indeed be a factor. And who prints images on regular paper anyway? Of course they'll look horrible. I really like the dual paper trays though - that's very cool.
BIOS Reviews the Canon PIXMA iP4000 Printer
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