Canon PIXMA iP4600 Expert Reviews

The $100 (as of 3/3/09) Canon Pixma iP4600 color inkjet printer is inexpensive to buy and maintain. Although it's minimally equipped and slow when printing text, it's still worth considering for the budget-minded home user and amateur photographer.

Low price; economical inks Comparatively fast at printing photos

Slow while printing text No media slots

Canon makes setup easy even for novices. Instructions in the concise "Getting Started" pamphlet are clear and amply illustrated. The printer communicates status and error messages via your computer screen, which is good, because all that the printer's ...

Single-function, basic inkjet printers suitable for the home or home office haven't quite gone the way of the dinosaur, or even the not-quite-extinct dot matrix printer, but they're growing rare. More and more, standard inkjet printers are being ...

High-quality photos. Prints directly from cameras. Two paper trays. Automatic duplexing

Slower than the last-generation printer it replaces. Full-page graphics tend to make plain paper curl

The Canon Pixma iP4600 is a surprising step down in speed from the printer it replaces, but it offers similar output quality and paper handling at a lower price.

Photo lab-quality 4" x 6" borderless prints in 20 seconds? Yes, you can do that, and much more. The new 5-color ink system - four dye-based inks and a

While the iP4600's photo quality and speed are pleasing, its lack of media slots and lackluster text speed are not.

The Pixma iP4600 printed fairly well on plain paper in our tests. Though text pages exited at a snail's pace of 7.3 pages per minute (ppm), they looked black and crisp on all but the most intricate fonts. Photos were slightly grainy and pale, but ...

Canon's top-of-the-range dedicated photo printer takes aim at your shots with its picolitre perfect pixels. Does it fire duds or bullseyes?

Quick setup and print speed. Excellent photo and text quality. Reasonable running costs

No front LCD or card reader. Slight oversaturation by default. No network connection

Those looking to produce beautiful photos - as well as boring text documents - need to look no further than the Canon's curvaceous PIXMA iP4600. Usurping the iP4500, the range-topping A4 inkjet printer produces fantastic, long-lasting prints quickly ...

The pigment black ink delivers crisp, sharp text. Managing your data storage is easy as you can personalise your DVDs and CDs for business, friends and family. Using the supplied CD-LabelPrint software you simply print direct onto the surface of the ...

The trade-off between the price you pay for a printer and the subsequent charges you incur when you need ink refills has long been a bugbear of computer users. Canon's Pixma iP4600 doesn't solve the problem ...

It'll go through ink, but you'll get far better quality prints than you might expect in this price range. And it's no slouch when it comes to text either.

The Canon Pixma iP4600 is Canon's flagship A4 inkjet photo printer.

The Canon Pixma iP4600 is Canon’s flagship photo printer and it shows â€" print quality is excellent, and it delivers very fast results.

Canon's range-topping inkjet photo printer produces photo-quality prints in approximately 20 seconds. Thanks to PictBridge technology you can print direct from compatible digital cameras. It has a max speed of 26 black and white pages per minute and ...

Why spend hundreds on a sparkling high-resolution camera and then print out photos on the plasticky inkjet you got free with your computer? Canon's flagship photo printer treats your masterpieces with the respect they deserve, lavishing on them five ...

This is a stripped-down photo-making machine, with none of the all-in-one extras like scanning, photocopying or even printing direct from memory cards (although there is a PictBridge port). It's not wireless like many of the newer printers, either

Less of a computer accessory than a photographer's best friend, the iP4600 dishes up some of the tastiest looking inkjet prints we've seen – and at a superb price.

A slight speed boost and a new curvaceous shape keep Canon on top of the inkjet pile.