Canon PIXMA iP4600 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