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Canon Printer Ink

So you might have already heard about the new Canon Pixma iP4200
that's doing the rounds in the computer hardware industry
nowadays. Everybody is reviewing it, including us.

Canon has been keeping mum over the longest-lasting-photo-prints
debate for sometime now. Possible explanations include the newly
released Pixma iP4200, with built-in duplex printing; individual
cartridges; two paper-input trays; easy operation; inexpensive;
great-looking photos; and 100-year print life. Epson, the
leading contender for lasting prints, now has competition. The
key ingredient to long-lasting prints is Canon's ChromaLife 100
ink set, included in the Pixma iP4200. The company claims that
when used with their branded photo papers, photos printed using
ChromaLife 100 inks will last up to 100 years when stored
properly.

Compared with the iP4000, the iP4200 is less expensive, faster
for business applications, and offers more longevity for photos.
However, photos take a little longer to print and earn a lower
quality rating than the iP4000, but the overall balance of
features makes for an impressive package.

The Pixma iP4200 uses Canon's Full-Photolithography Inkjet
Nozzle Engineering (FINE) print head, which releases droplets as
small as 1pl for each of the 1,536-nozzle cyan, magenta, yellow,
and black print heads (plus 320 nozzles for pigment-ink black
text), providing an effective color resolution of
9,600x2,400dpi. Two separate black ink cartridges for both a
pigment-based black and a dye-based black, significantly improve
photo output.

Apart from five inks, the photo printer offers the advantage of
two paper inputs: a standard paper feed tray in the rear and a
second paper tray that slides into the front bottom. You could
now easily load standard paper in one tray and photo paper in
the other, and switch back and forth between standard printing
and photos without having to swap out paper every time. One
eco-friendly feature of this printer includes the ability to
automatically print on both sides of a sheet of paper. However,
it might take you three times as long to print a 10-page
Microsoft Word document in this mode compared with printing
one-sided sheets.

The iP4200's driver can automatically adjust colour balance, you
can access sliders that modify the intensity of the individual
inks; you can also switch from sRGB to Windows Image Color
Management (ICM). Grayscale printing simply requires the tick of
a check box, and a simplistic Print Advisor wizard can quiz you
on the type of document you're printing and recommend an
appropriate paper.

Other than duplexing, the Page Setup options include size and
orientation, number of copies, border/borderless printing, and
addition of a background image or a watermark. An Effects tab
provides settings for optimizing the image; reducing noise;
boosting contrast; or adding effects such as sepia, pink, and
other colours. You can save your settings as a profile for reuse
in another printing session.

The Maintenance tab offers functions such as nozzle checks and
cleaning, printhead alignment, and other tasks, including a
bottom-plate-cleaning function that uses a folded letter-size
sheet to tidy up before duplex printing.

Graphics quality, rated at the high end of good, is suitable for
schoolwork or internal business use, and is marginally good
enough for an important client or customer you might want to
impress. However, some visible problems with photos include a
slight pink tint in monochrome photos and a tendency for some
colours to be overly punchy. It was also a little troublesome to
get a neutral gray out of the printer as prints tended toward
either green or blue depending on the driver settings used.

Refilling the Pixma iP4200 Cartridges

The new Canon PGI-5 and CLI-8 cartridges have an onboard chip to
measure the ink level of each individual cartridge. The five
individual ink cartridges in the Pixma iP4200 feature bright red
LEDs that light up when properly installed. The cartridge lights
also start blinking when ink is running low, and the blinking
gets faster as the tanks get emptier. The numbers of the Pixma
iP4200 cartridges are:

PGI-5BK - Black pigment ink CLI-8BK - Black dye based ink CLI-8C
- Cyan dye based ink CLI-8M - Magenta dye based ink CLI-8Y -
Yellow dye based ink These cartridges are also suitable for
Pixma iP5200, iP5200r printers, MP500, MP800 and MP950 MFPs.
Needless to say, many people would like to know if these
cartridges can be refilled, or if compatible cartridges are
available. As of now (February 2006), compatibles are not
available for the PGI5 or CLI8 inks, probably for 2 reasons: The
ink formulations are quite complex, and refill ink manufacturers
need to ensure their inks will perform equivalent to the
original Canon inks. Canon has patented the on-board chip;
consequently, compatible manufacturers have to be very careful
not to infringe that patent, which could leave them open to
litigation. Canon recently won a lawsuit against a company in
Japan, which was involved in the business of refilling and
resale of Canon cartridges. Naturally, this will set back any
plans for compatible cartridges. However, there are refill inks
available on the market and refilling instructions are available
from ink vendors. Canon has very cleverly adapted their
printers; if you refill the cartridges and re-insert them into
the machine, a warning message will appear on your computer
along the lines of: "You are using refill ink in your
cartridges. If you continue, your printer warranty will be
void." You are prompted to press OK, and after doing so, the low
ink warning facility on the printer no longer works. If this is
the case, you must be very careful never to let the inks run
dry, as this will burn your print head.

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